I think any word can be made foul, it depends on how you use it. So maybe you don't have exactly foul words, but they can be spoken with a foul mouth and intentions.
African Americans are over represented in prison cells and have a higher crime rate lower income etc etc. Just because there are signs that says No Blacks does not mean that US does not have any sort of racism. Infact the social injustice in a country like US or Australia is much more severe than Japan.
It's not as bad as you might think. I've heard several times that Japan is more a stressful place to live and work.I can imagine that. Although I have never experienced racism in overseas, Life in those countries must be tough. Must be very stressful.
Such stressful life in USA and Australia may have made some people very sensitive about racism. If racism is rare or less, people may not be able to think of that.
I'm not going to waste any time at all in calling a spade a spade, here. This thread is totally non-functional in nature. What in the world is this 'race' thing anyway? Not a single sentence has been offered to define the term, not a single notion of what is being studied about it has been offered by the OP.
What are the limits of the study field? What is the hypothesis being worked towards? What action can be taken, suggestion be forumlated, and/or benefit be gained in learning that discrimination in any form can overlap with some concept called 'race?' (if, in fact, there is really any such thing.)
I strongly suggest that the OP set functional terms for this thread.
What is the point of trying to compare how much racism there is in Japan versus other places? Are we trying to establish which place is "better"? This seems like an exercise in futility.
Exactly what I and others have been trying to say for years here in Japan. Why is it that the country signs an international treaty against discrimination, yet does not enact any laws to support that signing? Answer (from the horse's mouth): The laws would be too difficult to enforce. Amazing logic, eh?!It may not be legal, but if those things are allowed and not enforced saying they are illegal really means nothing!
My reply:I thought it was fairly clear but I hereby state objective of this thread again.
1. Looking into racism/discrimination in comparison to Japan and non-Japan.
2. Gaining an understanding of the background of those racism/discrimination.
3. Determining the solution for better world.
Koizumi's administration was ready to institute English as a mandatory subject in elementary schools. It was already there in a general form. Enter PM Shinzo Abe, and things go 180 degrees. No compulsory English in el ed. Reason given? The same old song and dance about Japanese being unable to process 2 languages at the same time, that the Japanese culture would suffer, etc. Totally unsupported B.S., of course, but it shows dinosaur thinking springing from fear of what internationalization would really bring to this country.
Japan's condition is unique in the fact that it doesn't need English at all.
Japan's condition is unique in the fact that it doesn't need English at all.
I mean, westerners like yourself, embrace western fundamentalism and then you try to shove it down everybody's throat.
All these racism/discrimination threads all boil down to the same thing: there are racist everywhere in the world, but only in Japan is racism and discrimination entirely legal.
Israel is worse because they confiscate Palestinian land and houses. They kick them out and say. This land is Jewish. I dont think in Japan they go to your house and kick you out of your house, terar down your house and say. This land is Japanese state property.
There is probably alot more stealth racism in US. Racism in a subtle manner difficult to detect than the overt practices of discrimination that once was dominant in US but still there are signs everywhere in US of the social injustice.
Japanese dont go around kidnapping people like US and North Korea either.