fucking racism

[risskabob]

Street in Tokyo renamed "Basketball Street".

One of the reasons listed for rebranding?

“foreigners selling illegal drugs”

BECAUSE JAPANESE PEOPLE CAN NEVER FUCKING DO ANYTHING WRONG, RIGHT?

RIGHT?

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Comments

[snickerdoodles]

Wow. That's all. :|

[risskabob]

I will say this about my time in Japan: it's given me a much deeper perspective into casual racism, being a minority, and "otherness".

[xsnarkasaurus]

... ~stares~

wow.

[risskabob]

I know.

/ragequits Japan

[xsnarkasaurus]

~packs you up and ships you off to your next location early~

Y'know, when i was an exchange student, i was asked why I didn't go to Japan. My response at the time was centered on how they treat women in general, and not having an interest in the language or culture. Now? Yeaaaaaaah, i'm really glad that's not where I landed. there would have been so much death at my hands.

[risskabob]

The different in attitude and philosophy are really interesting.

As one of my adult students pointed out, in the western world, it's generally "Ladies first". In Japan, it's "men first", which is an interesting comparison of how chivalry still impacts us vs how... I don't know, bushido? affects them.

[risskabob]

Anything that can be blamed on foreigners (especially Koreans) is. Japanese people are the last to be blamed for crimes.

[risskabob]

The whole "WE HATE FOREIGNERS AND JAPANESE CULTURE IS THE BEST AND MUST BE PROTECTED" idea, paired with the "LET'S GIVE SOMETHING A FOREIGN SOUNDING NAME, FOR IT WILL BE MORE POPULAR" is really confusing.

[sweetone41185]

Wow...Its like its 1960.

[risskabob]

A lot of things here are similar to how they were in the US in the 60's. Women's rights, treatment of foreigners (not that the US is perfect on that right now, though)

[sweetone41185]

So crazy. Every time you post something about this kind of thing it never fails to blow my mind. (Oh yeah, definitely not)

[elohisa]

Oh god. That's awful. How can they get away with that? ):

[risskabob]

*shrugs*

When you're a 90-something percent homogeneous society, you can get away with a lot in regards to attitudes towards foreigners and other races. In your own country, at least.

The drawings of black people here are reminiscent of ones found in the States in the early 20th century.