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Sox:
I am white, and therefore privileged! I'm not allowed to get offended by white stereotypes! Only black stereotypes.

Scandanavian War Machine:
i don't get offended by white stereotypes because they are usually true.

precedent.

Thlayli:

--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 14 Jul 2008, 00:31 ---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.

--- End quote ---

I won't bother responding to most of your other comments, because others have said what I would say. But you need to know that there is no such thing as an "Oriental" race. Chinese people are not the same thing as Koreans, or Thai, or Lao or Viet. It is commonly accepted that the modern Japanese are a mixture of Korean, Chinese, and Ainu if I recall correctly; I may be wrong about the Chinese bit. Korea hates Japan because during WWII, the Japanese government kidnapped thousands of Korean girls and forced them into prostitution in ports in Japan. This was known as being a 'comfort girl'. Japanese racism has roots going back to the myth of Amaterasu.

Nodaisho:
Eh, as one can tell, I don't put much attention or study into whatever the term is for physical differences between people originating from different areas, so I will admit ignorance in that field.

I'm pretty sure that the modern Japanese people would have chinese heritage, because, as I recall, the original immigrants to push the Ainu out were Chinese.

I don't see why the comfort girl thing would cause the Japanese to hate the Koreans, I could see why the Koreans would hate the Japanese, but not vice versa. I still wouldn't understand hatred against a whole country, especially when most people involved in that will be dead within ten years, but I never understand hatred of a granfaloon, so that is no different than usual.

supersheep:
When it is modern-day government policy to imply that your pretty nasty actions were 'incidents' or part of some plan to free Asia from imperialism, and then the head of state pays a visit every year to a shrine commemorating war criminals, it is kinda understandable. Also, 'national' memory is quite long. People still hate the Brits for Strongbow, which was over 800 years ago, and a bit ridiculous.

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