Historically Japanese used to call foreigners 外人 (gaijin) which means foreign person ... technically means "outside person"

Idiomatically and within the usual context/level of politeness, it means "outsider".

And then over time 外人 was considered to be "rude" and "politically incorrect" because 外人 refers to anyone that was not of Japanese ethnicity even if they had Japanese citizenship

To my understanding, it actually is derogatory in it's original context, so I wouldn't push this implication of being changed as entirely bad. Unlike racial slurs and epithets, it has a more universal touch of "someone not from our society". If you're saying it to someone, it's like saying "what's this fucker doing here, should go home to their own country". It would be similar to an American telling any legal tax-paying, freedom-loving conservative immigrant who came here through all the proper means, that they're an "outsider", simply because they don't look white or clearly are from Europe. There is some racial attitude about it, but it can apply to anyone determined to not be from Japanese society itself.

If anyone's pushing it, it probably the media. That's usually where the core of foreign influence starts where there's external control. Could also be the Japanese themselves, if they're believing in globalism and also believing in general politeness. Japan's economy is shit too, because they won't take themselves off the global banking cartel chain, so could also be wanting to do business with "outsiders".

EDIT: You nigger down-voters are wrong about this. Actually immerse yourself in the culture before passing judgement on what you swine think is really going on.

Historically Japanese used to call foreigners 外人 (gaijin) which means foreign person ... technically means "outside person"

Idiomatically and within the usual context/level of politeness, it means "outsider".

And then over time 外人 was considered to be "rude" and "politically incorrect" because 外人 refers to anyone that was not of Japanese ethnicity even if they had Japanese citizenship

To my understanding, it actually is derogatory in it's original context, so I wouldn't push this implication of being changed as entirely bad. Unlike racial slurs and epithets, it has a more universal touch of "someone not from our society". If you're saying it to someone, it's like saying "what's this fucker doing here, should go home to their own country". It would be similar to an American telling any legal tax-paying, freedom-loving conservative immigrant who came here through all the proper means, that they're an "outsider", simply because they don't look white or clearly are from Europe. There is some racial attitude about it, but it can apply to anyone determined to not be from Japanese society itself.

If anyone's pushing it, it probably the media. That's usually where the core of foreign influence starts where there's external control. Could also be the Japanese themselves, if they're believing in globalism and also believing in general politeness. Japan's economy is shit too, because they won't take themselves off the global banking cartel chain, so could also be wanting to do business with "outsiders".

EDIT: You nigger down-voters are wrong about this. Actually, immerse yourself in the culture before passing judgement on what you swine think is really going on.

Historically Japanese used to call foreigners 外人 (gaijin) which means foreign person ... technically means "outside person"

Idiomatically and within the usual context/level of politeness, it means "outsider".

And then over time 外人 was considered to be "rude" and "politically incorrect" because 外人 refers to anyone that was not of Japanese ethnicity even if they had Japanese citizenship

To my understanding, it actually is derogatory in it's original context, so I wouldn't push this implication of being changed as entirely bad. Unlike racial slurs and epithets, it has a more universal touch of "someone not from our society". If you're saying it to someone, it's like saying "what's this fucker doing here, should go home to their own country". It would be similar to an American telling any legal tax-paying, freedom-loving conservative immigrant who came here through all the proper means, that they're an "outsider", simply because they don't look white or clearly are from Europe. There is some racial attitude about it, but it can apply to anyone determined to not be from Japanese society itself.

If anyone's pushing it, it probably the media. That's usually where the core of foreign influence starts where there's external control. Could also be the Japanese themselves, if they're believing in globalism and also believing in general politeness. Japan's economy is shit too, because they won't take themselves off the global banking cartel chain, so could also be wanting to do business with "outsiders".