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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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Yeah, but I still get a kick out of seeing Thais walking around with Nazi swazstika flags on their T-shirts and bike helments...
Yet no one actually knows who Hitler even is here... I wonder if they'd still advertise Nazism if they knew??? Seriously, Thais are on average, dumb... like, celebrating Christmas, but not knowing who Jesus is, or if they do know, they can never guess his birthday... but Christmas IS huge here... anyway...