Luckily Japanese have yellow faces

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The Japanese foreign minister gets to the heart of the Middle East conflict...


"Japan is doing what Americans can't do," local media quoted Mr Aso as saying in a speech about Japan-sponsored investment in the Middle East. "Japanese are trusted. It would probably be no good to have blue eyes and blond hair. Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2040956,00.html

some background...

In 2001 he said a member of the burakumin, Japan's underclass, could never lead the country. He later angered Japan's indigenous Ainu population by describing the country as unique in being "one nation, one civilisation, one language, one culture and one race". While economics minister, he said he wanted to turn Japan into a country where "rich Jews" would want to live.

In 2003, he sparked protests when he praised imperial Japan's often brutal colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945,
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what an Aso....:rolleyes:
 
andyandy said:
The Japanese foreign minister gets to the heart of the Middle East conflict...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,2040956,00.html

some background...



what an Aso....:rolleyes:
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In fairness to the.. I mean MR Aso, I think the Japanese tend to see things like race, and heritage different than us. I mean, we consider it bad to clump people together based on their race, or skin color, or what have you. While the Japanese look at things differently.

It's those slanted eyes you know.




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Two orangutan avatars connversing? This is like watching Dr. Zayas explain that man is not a thinking animal.

/derail
 
This Guy said:
In fairness to the.. I mean MR Aso, I think the Japanese tend to see things like race, and heritage different than us. I mean, we consider it bad to clump people together based on their race, or skin color, or what have you. While the Japanese look at things differently.

It's those slanted eyes you know.
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Nah, probably only different in that the public are slightly more accepting of bigots and misogynists in regards to the vocalization of said bigoted or misogynistic beliefs.

No japanese wants to be clumped together with the burakumin or koreans for that matter.
 
This Guy said:
In fairness to the.. I mean MR Aso, I think the Japanese tend to see things like race, and heritage different than us. I mean, we consider it bad to clump people together based on their race, or skin color, or what have you. While the Japanese look at things differently.
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By "different" you mean that racist attitudes are considered acceptable in Japan?
 
So it appears that Clouseau was right all these years ...

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... "my little yellow friend."
 
Giz said:
By "different" you mean that racist attitudes are considered acceptable in Japan?
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I have no idea. The whole of the first paragraph of my post was a lead-in to the last sentence. :)

However, have the Japanese spoken out against these apparently racist comments by their Foreign Minister? I don't know. That might give us an idea about how the people as a whole view things.
 
Giz said:
By "different" you mean that racist attitudes are considered acceptable in Japan?
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I'd say yes.

I was offered a few pointers on why round eyes were not welcome in a couple of bars in Tokyo's Rapungi district, back in about 1990.

Honest, polite, and distinctly bigoted.

When in Tokyo . . .

DR
 
Giz said:
By "different" you mean that racist attitudes are considered acceptable in Japan?
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If you mean, does the colour of your skin affect how people treat you, then absolutely.....indeed your bloodline affects how you're treated...japan is a very nationalistic country.....
 
andyandy said:
If you mean, does the colour of your skin affect how people treat you, then absolutely.....indeed your bloodline affects how you're treated...japan is a very nationalistic country.....
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In fairness, it isn't just the Japanese -- most of Asia is like that. It is certainly the case in Korea, as much, if not more so, than in Japan. The younger generations tend to place much less emphasis on that sort of thing than their parents, though, which is a good sign. International marriages are becoming very common, so by necessity, those particular traditions are eroding away slowly. My in-laws were very accepting of our marriage, though my wife's grandmother was not at all accepting. Still isn't. The generational gap is gigantic. I know some Japanese and Koreans whose parents would have no issue with their sons/daughters marrying a foreigner, and I know some whose parents would be dead-set against it. By the time the current college-age generation takes over, it will probably be much more widely accepted than it is now.
 
Korea and Japan both have some very strange cultural problems, but I give Korea bonus points for being very outspoken about every little problem with their country, whether it be some mass murderer in a faraway country or Korean war crimes decades ago. Meanwhile Japanese leaders are praising the era of imperialism and approving textbooks that rewrite history to ignore their worst atrocities.
 
DonJunbar said:
Meanwhile Japanese leaders are praising the era of imperialism and approving textbooks that rewrite history to ignore their worst atrocities.
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In fairness this view is down in part to a rather aggressive Chinese propaganda campaign which seeks to use anti-japanese sentiment to fuel chinese nationalism....
 
Tony said:
I think the proper term is "yellow devils".
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Nope.

It is "Nips."

Remember, on that chilly February day that Emperor Hirohito was to arrive for a visit at Andrews Air Force Base, President Jimmy Carter was heard to say

"There's a nip in the air."

DR
 
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