A Black man's opinions
"they call blacks the "little nigers", and nobody says anything."
Well, I'm not too sure about that, Maciamo. "Tintin in Japan" was never published in Sweden since it was considered to be too racist.
As for Tokyo Breakfast, I do find it very amusing. They didn't do it with the sole purpose of upsetting Black people. Besides, as HennaSaru stated, humour makes the world go around. However, it might affect the Japanese people's view of Black people since the interaction between Japanese and Blacks still is minimal. One should be careful, though, when stereotyping or making jokes about stereotypes if the knowledge about the specific target group among people is poor. I do not feel offended since it wasn't the purpose of it. I'm only a bit worried that some people in Japan who aren't used to Black people will fail to understand that it's all just a big joke.
I wonder what the response if someone made"South Central L.A Breakfast". A family of Black persons where the father is absent since he's a workaholic, the grandfather is busy with preparing his daily kamikaze attack, the mother spending the whole day being oppressed by all kinds of men, the young son eating rice, studying/reading hentai magazines and at the same time crawling on the floor since he by no means is allowed to stand out, and so the young daughter running in and out of the small hole in the wall which is their home with different men because she's just too easy.
I doubt that the Japanese would find it as amusing as a westerner might (not that it is funny, just a stupid example)
"here in Sweden, there is currently a big discussion about the word "neger" the literally means "negro". Swedish (white) people don't think it is a bad word, but the African Swedish people think it is. they want to be called "svarta" (black)."
I rather prefer being referred to as "Manuel" since that's the name I was given
When referring to African-Swedish people, I think that using the word Black (mﾃｶrkyad/svart) is the best. The reason being that the word "neger"(corresponds to "nigger") is mainly used in an insulting, depreciatory way. I do not get offended that easily, but my younger sister does, and many among her. When someone tells you "never" at you, I can assure you that they don't do it to make friends with you. But to me, it's not the word per se that I find insulting. It is simply how it's used and by how. Let's face it. People don't even need insults to be rude. It's rather a question of attitude.
The only thing that really pisses me is when people try to tell me what and what not I can find offensive. It's like when some stupid Swedish guys think it's okay to call Swedish girls the C-word (F-word in Swedish, but I'm not your bad language teacher) and then defend themselves by saying that it's nothing bad with female genitalia. Oh well, the world is full of people with misdirected anger. I either avoid them or give them a well-needed hug
