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Inlander:
Actually, I'm given to understand that Japan can be quite a racist country, but that it doesn't come up as an issue much but because the country is so homogenised. I've heard that Koreans living in Japan, or Ainu, can have a pretty hard time of it.
EDIT: though as far as I'm aware (from my very limited knowledge of the issue), racial prejudice in Japan rarely if ever descends into physical violence, and it's certainly not comparable to historic prejudices in the United States or in South Africa, for example.
E. Spaceman:
I love many aspects of japanese culture, but sadly the country is and has been forever quite racist.
Nodaisho:
I wasn't counting hatred of China and Korea, as I understand it, they are the same race, not sure if Oriental is the right term, I know Asian isn't, as the former USSR and the middle east are in Asia. I am not sure exactly how it works over there, I imagine some of the very old people don't much care for the U.S. (what with the violence during WW2, not to mention the nukes), but according to my Japanese teacher, the country by and large is fond of the U.S., thinks the Chinese are... the word she used that I remember was dirty, not sure how she meant that, and they just don't like Koreans, I don't know why they would dislike South Korea, but North Korea is hated for kidnapping Japanese people off of beaches. Maybe they just ball up all of Korea.
Still, though, I don't think there was ever any real bias against black people there, which is why Popo wasn't considered unacceptable during the 80s, or whenever it was made.
And hot damn, I helped derail a thread. paint another on my fuselage.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 14 Jul 2008, 00:31 ---Still, though, I don't think there was ever any real bias against black people there, which is why Popo wasn't considered unacceptable during the 80s, or whenever it was made.
--- End quote ---
Apparently it was still pretty cool in the late 90's though.
Eris:
Chocolove was on TV in Japan in 2001, and the American dub of it was released in 2003.
In the English translation of the manga his lips have been edited to avoid blackface, but in the anime they are the same. Are you going to go overboard over every single instance where one could be referring to blackface?
Don't forget people that racism goes both ways; it's not just white people hatin' on black people. I don't really see people getting offended at the Wayan Brothers with their 'White Girls' movie to the degree it's going on in this thread for the other way (I know White Girls has been mentioned in here already, but it was overlooked, so I'm bringing it back up again).
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