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Originally Posted by MMM
Did you just step off of a time machine from 1925. Things have changed a little over the last 70 years or so..
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Oh come on, that UN report about racism in Japan was released less than 5 years ago - you can't pretend it doesn't exist out here and brush off any suggestion as being a 'living in the past' comment.
(Just to be clear before any idiots jump on me... that is NOT my opinion, but the opinion of THE UNITED NATIONS.)
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Originally Posted by MMM
So I wonder how the millions of non-Japanese speaking tourists are able to function. How can such a backwards land host things like the Olympics and World Cup championships? Mind-boggling.
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Interestingly enough, it looks as though the topic of racism may cost Tokyo in the 2016 olympic bid... rumour has it that the IOC are not impressed by Ishihara and his random outbursts such as "Chinese people are born with criminal dna" and the infamous rant about why French should not be a language (and before you ask, I have friends in the TMG who are working towards the olympics bid)
Now I know this has somehow gone from a post about negative uses of the word gaijin, to a post about racism in general but it seems the 2 may have to go hand in hand