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> racism is directed at Koreans and Chinese. I wanted to nitpick about it not being possible for Japanese people to be racism against Koreans/Chinese (unless t
by taway_1212 10y ago
> racism is directed at Koreans and Chinese.
I wanted to nitpick about it not being possible for Japanese people to be racism against Koreans/Chinese (unless they expicitly claim that K/C people are of different and inferior race), but I've learned that the term is so blurred now that even Wikipedia defines it as "discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity. Today, the use of the term 'racism' does not easily fall under a single definition.".
Contrarily, in my home country (Poland) racism still means discrimination based on concept of races and some of them being inferior/superior, and not nationality/ethnicity. Interesting how this term got overloaded in the USA.
- azernik 10y agoJapanese prejudice against Koreans and Chinese has historically been couched in racial terms. The Japanese have tended (particular in the Showa period, but to a lesser extent up to the present) consider themselves a separate race from the peoples of mainland Asia.