Or maybe they're just normal and the Western whites are the ones that are currently abnormal? This kind of argument reminds me of how the Little Mermaid movie tanked in China and the good little "conservatives" rushed to blame China as "the REAL racists" rather than admitting that the live action remake was simply a trash movie.
Racis(tm) is a dumb term. That's the problem we have here. Some people like to wear it like a badge. I dont' care what's racist. I care what's right and what's wrong.
I think Japanese are especially ethnocentrist . High trust inside and low trust outside, more so than Americans which are my reference just cuz.
I don’t know if I’d call them ethnocentrist either. The Meiji era was about reforming Japan to adopt many western standards, and even today, you see non-US influences like kpop waltz right through cultural barriers, despite any presumed ethnic prejudice.
I would argue they try to hold more rigid definitions, so to be “Japanese”, etc. is a stricter standard than what Americans will see as “American”. From how they take and refine ideas that are new to them, I think their ability to evaluate foreign concepts is actually quite open.
Or maybe they're just normal and the Western whites are the ones that are currently abnormal? This kind of argument reminds me of how the Little Mermaid movie tanked in China and the good little "conservatives" rushed to blame China as "the REAL racists" rather than admitting that the live action remake was simply a trash movie.
It's a relative thing, but Japanese have to be high in terms of racism.
Racism really is just a boogeyman if Japan is "notoriously" racist.
Racis(tm) is a dumb term. That's the problem we have here. Some people like to wear it like a badge. I dont' care what's racist. I care what's right and what's wrong.
I think Japanese are especially ethnocentrist . High trust inside and low trust outside, more so than Americans which are my reference just cuz.
I don’t know if I’d call them ethnocentrist either. The Meiji era was about reforming Japan to adopt many western standards, and even today, you see non-US influences like kpop waltz right through cultural barriers, despite any presumed ethnic prejudice.
I would argue they try to hold more rigid definitions, so to be “Japanese”, etc. is a stricter standard than what Americans will see as “American”. From how they take and refine ideas that are new to them, I think their ability to evaluate foreign concepts is actually quite open.
You say that like being racist is a bad thing.
All I know is that if i wanted to steelman a “racism is bad” argument, I wouldn’t use Japan as an example.
Is it bad tho?