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Originally Posted by MMM
Racism is whereever you want to find it. In the case of Japan please don't mix up racism and ignorance. Blacks were never enslaved there, so some of the images appropriated from the American and other media that is used (i.e. black face) isn't intended to offend because in Japan it isn't offensive. Where this is a sensitive point to you, you might just as easily offend a Japanese person by, say, walking into their house with your shoes on. It doesn't mean you are racist, just being ignorant.
That distinction is important.
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Like I said before:
I don't think this is vindictive racism, I think that this is just innocent ignorance because not enough information is available teaching the history of blacks around the world...