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05-05-2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
Lil Sambo characters and Blackface singers like those that appeared on Hey Hey Hey are NOT, I repeat ARE NOT an indication of the racism against blacks in Japan. Black face = Racism is a WESTERN concept. So when it happens on Japanese TV it is easy for Westerners to see that as degrading, where in Japanese eyes it is simply imitation.
Yeah, I know, hence what I said. "Admiration", unlike here where it was used as a way to degrade blacks. What I was saying is that they obviously don't, and wouldn't, see how it would be offensive because the stigma of racism doesn't come to mind there because, in a way, it doesn't exist and isn't associated with anything negative there.
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