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• Ostrakon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The people defending this as ‘not racism’… way to miss the point. If this was some BBQ joint in Texas with a sign that says closed in Spanish but open in English you wouldn’t be posting these comments

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  • baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The odds of a Texas BBQ joint not having any Spanish speaking employees is exceedingly small.

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    • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And yet they are cheering for ICE to arrest them all. No matter the status or paperwork. If they’re arrested then they are guilty. That’s how it works down here.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lol what? Have you ever been to Texas?

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s also racism. Those people are just stupid.

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  • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It literally isn’t racism though. You can disagree with it and think it should be banned, but there is no interpretation that it can realistically be called racism

    I lived in Japan for a while. I’ve seen a couple places with a sign like this. In my experience every place like this is perfectly willing to have foreigners that speak Japanese. They simply don’t want to deal with the hassle of a language barrier

    I should also note these places were always in touristy areas. If they don’t have a sign like that, they’ll end up with majority English speaking customers, because Japanese customers prefer places without rowdy tourists that can’t speak the local language. I did too. Going out for an after work beer, you want an entirely different atmosphere from tourists getting hammered

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why not just post the truth then? They could say “We’re sorry, we’re unable to accomodate non-Japanese speakers due to…”?

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It would still not be racism

    Xenophobia at worst, only hatred of tourists at best

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    • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Xenophobia is inherently racist.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah let’s start calling it racism when Barcelona locals spray tourists with water guns and see how quickly these same people scream “THAT’S DIFFERENT!”

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  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Its called Xenophobia.

    Xenophobia and racism are distinct forms of prejudice: xenophobia is the fear or hatred of foreigners, while racism is the belief in racial superiority and systemic oppression based on race. Though they overlap, they target people for different reasons.

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  • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It doesn’t say “if you are of that race we are open”. It says you must understand the language. So learn it - you’ll need it anyway to live there - or go elsewhere, where staff can serve you on your language, provide a menu on your language etc.

    A hate system where you can upgrade your status by learning is not racism. Also not necessarily a hate system in the first place.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.

    Clearly “Americans expecting foreigners to speak English” is different from “Other countries expecting Americans to speak the local language” from a moral point of view. So why is Japan then lumped in with America as the “Local people must accept and accommodate foreigners who can’t communicate in the local language” bucket, when anywhere else it’s “If you’re traveling there and you didn’t even try learning the language, then you’re ignorant and entitled.”?

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    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      that’s absolutely not the case in places like the netherlands and the nordic countries, people dont really give a fuck cus everyone speaks english anyway (unfortunately)

      i think the dutch and the scandinavians have hit their head or something cus their languages are so easy to learn but in iceland and finland it’s possible to never get fluent even with a lot of effort, cus the languages are damn hard, so people are understandably more forgiving

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.

      My American cousin lived and worked in France as an engineer for several years. This is absolutely not true. He did make an effort to learn some French, but it wasn’t because of any pressure. He just wanted to.

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I used a bus in Japan to go to Mount Fuji. Seats were assigned like in a plane and I was sitting next to some Japanese guy. I did my best to respect their customs and remained silent and kept to myself for the two hour ride. The inside of the bus was as silent as a church for the entire drive even though it was full.

  On the way back at the end of the day, the bus had dropped a few passengers somewhere and stopped at a station for a toilet break. When we boarded again the driver went to see the passenger beside me and moved him to another seat on the bus to sit in a seat that had been freed up next to another Japanese person.

  I’ve spent the rest of the ride wondering what I had done wrong. It’s really a fucked up feeling and it must be horrible to be experiencing this sort of passive aggressive racism in a daily basis in your own home.

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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It probably wasn’t anything wrong you had done wrong. From what I’ve been hearing from some family who do business in asia. As they explain it, Japan has had an economic whiplash from the 80s and a lot of those cultural and economic policies that gave them initial success were not sustainable long term. And since Japan is a VERY proud culture, they’ve found it easier to blame outsiders than their own miscalculations.

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    • skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      they’ve found it easier to blame outsiders than their own miscalculations.

      Enough said, round the world

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  • Jimbo@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The inside of the bus was as silent as a church for the entire drive even though it was full.

    Is that not the case where you’re from? Genuinely almost never heard anyone having a conversation on an intercity bus

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In my country, almost any group travelling together is going to speak on a long-haul bus or train, many of them most of the time. And lots of people make phone calls. There have to be designated quiet coaches (or open rail cars since coaches are falling out of fashion).

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    • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s pretty common for long haul routes to feature chatter, the chatter goes up exponentially if something goes south. As we’d then have a shared experience of sitting in queue on the highway together

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  • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s really nothing you did. The people there just randomly decide to stand up in crowded trains if you are a foreigner and sit beside them. Or this time I was just walking down the street and the lady who was walking towards me just randomly crosses the street and walks past.

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• 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Japan is one of the most xenophobic countries on the planet. This is just one example.

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  • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Despite having population crisis and financial loses, they are still committed to xenophobia. They are master of that.

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure would be a shame if they also had an abysmally low birth rate which will result in their societal collapse.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Probably on my list of reasons why I don’t want to visit Japan

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ive been to Japan a few years ago and they always felt very friendly and welcoming. They’re somewhat shy and awkward, but can’t say I had any negative experience.

      If you want to feel bad, go to Italy, especially Rome. Many Italians are super racist, hate tourists and are not afraid to hide it.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re going to face it anywhere you go. Don’t let it hold you back. There’s always a slight feeling of unease around those that are different from yourself. But not everyone turns it into a justification to hate. I saw this video 5 years ago about a guy going to Japan trying to track down the location of a meme image from the early internet. They ended up heading off to a smaller town that wasn’t very touristy. Something that could go very badly. As some of the small towns like anywhere else can be very insular. But instead when they got there. Ended up spending the night chatting up an eager bar owner about Kurosawa and star wars.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ll never prejudge an individual from Japan or any other nation.

    I will however judge the polity as a whole.

    Mfs still pretending like they never did any warcrimes.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Literally every country on the planet is xenophobic, people only make a big deal out of it when it’s a western or western-aligned country.

    The entire idea of inclusivity, tolerance, and multiculturalism is primarily a western idea sprung from western humanist values and honestly only even taken seriously in secular democracies which tend to be aligned with the west.

    And then people act like the west and west-aligned countries are so depraved for not perfectly living up to those values, when hardly any other nation even tries or has any desire to.

    It’s honestly kind of amusing once you stop giving a shit.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I told people in North Iraq I am from Turkey, and despite my government fucking genociding their population and oppressing them for years, these people were welcoming. Travel more, I guess?

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    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is such an ignorant take. Multiculturalism is actually the norm in most of the world throughout history, and the rare instances of isolationism are more often a result of geography than culture. The current xenophobic and nationalist state of the world is an aberration resulting from rampant and ongoing colonialism in the past few centuries. Many nations that exist today encompass regions that were far more multicultural and politically complex prior to their colonization by Europeans.

      As for the West, our current secular humanist values are the result of the enlightenment period in which European colonizers appropriated and synthesized the ideas of colonized peoples around the world. The reason we don’t live up to them is because we stubbornly refuse to reckon with our colonialist past and present, such that we just go on living with the contradiction to the detriment of the world and ourselves.

      It’s honestly kind of amusing once you stop giving a shit.

      Not caring doesn’t make you cool, it just makes you another cynical asshole among many. IMO the world could do with less cynical assholes.

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• 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Still racist

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It wasn’t saying it wasn’t tho

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  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, genuinely, how? It’s not saying you need to be Japanese to enter, just that you need to be able to read Japanese. IMO, learning the local language of a country you plan to visit is a basic courtesy that too many people don’t bother with.

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    • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “I’m tired of all these immigrants coming over here and not even being able to speak the language. This is [country] and we speak [language] here!”

      That’s what you sound like.

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … How many countries have you ever visited to say that

      Like, being able to speak the very basics I agree. Numbers, hello and goodbye, thank you, etc.

      But “If you can read this, you may come in” is pretty advanced. Like, probably requiring weeks of daily study level advanced to be able to understand.

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Jim Crow literacy tests have entered the chat

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    • M137@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah, yes, everyone whould spend months to learn the language of every country they visit even though they might be there for only a few days.

      How are you this dumb? I highly doubt you’ve ever been outside the country you were born in, and if you have you certainly didn’t follow your own thought here.

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Google Lens tells me that the description is accurate. Even though i love japanese culture, they are racist as fuck, so i am not ever surprised.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Guess who’s reading this, lol
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  Anyway, this is blatantly racism and don’t give me the “yes but what if they don’t have anyone who speaks english or chinese?” That’s fair but in that case you put something that says “sorry we don’t have any english speaking staff” or tell me directly but anyway, it shouldn’t be that hard to order tbh, yeah i can’t talk but we are in 2026 with such translation tools, i can scan, look at what it says and then point at the various menu entries with my finger, to pay i can just look at the numbers lmao

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Lmao” your ability to use software to translate for you doesn’t change the intent behind this sign. Japan is racist AF despite their polite society, and there are a growing number of restaurants and other establishments with signage that outright says some version of “no foreigners/no white people.” You will probably get a frosty reception in this establishment if you decide to enter it because you decide you were too clever to be deterred.

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Cardinal Rule

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, what is the alternative? Not eat? It may not be a problem in bigger cities but smaller ones it probably is (but i have never been to japan so idk)

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  • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, if the Japanese text says “if you can read this, you’re welcome”, it does suggest that English or Chinese people who speak and read Japanese are welcome. It’s a real weird thing to pull, like they think they’re being cute.

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  • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your phone will be allowed in, but you have to stay outside.

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  • axx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can people really no longer differentiate between xenophobia and racism?

    Not being pedantic, but misnaming thins only adds to the woes of the world, to (mis)quote Camus.

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    • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But japanese people are not only xenophobic, they are also racist. There was a show that, if I remember correctly, made fun of a black person for making sushi. Like it was the funniest thing ever for them. Racism has been normalised in the japanese society, but there’s also blatant xenophobia.

      However, if I were to chose between being victim of racism in the US or in Japan I would always chose Japan because there would be fewer threats to my life.

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    • JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s both. I knew a guy who was half black, half Japanese but he was born and raised in Japan. Despite being native born and culturally Japanese, he still faced a lot of discrimination because he was black. Among the expats, we were all discriminated against due to being foreigners, but the black people got it the worst.

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  • Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know a handful of white Americans who at a glance you’d never guess they’re highly educated polyglots and would meet the requirements for entering this restaurant. The way the sign is worded, I think you’re right, only fluent Japanese people allowed here because we only speak Japanese here.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Japan, where racism doesn’t usually get the same criticism it does elsewhere for whatever reason…

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Japan cast cat girl, it was super effective. All knowledge of atrocities was erased from western nations.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re hateful, but they’re cute.

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    • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just like the cats.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This. Also the massive online love affair with Japan and anime sure does a lot to distract people from the less savoy aspects of Japan.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Japan is too far away and too aligned with the west to receive criticism for racism

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not sure being aligned with the west means much while people are extremely critical in and outside western countries about racism.

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  • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That is because they have soft power.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think it’s more so that what looks like them being polite to most is meant as something extremely rude. Also not to mention the love affair most have with Japan online.

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They get an easier pass because their products are top-notch. Toyota basically invented Six Sigma/a globally used process for manufacturer defect elimination. A Japanese automaker invented QR codes. They have Nintendo, anime, etc. They changed and continue to impact the world in highly recognizable ways, not by merely cheap products (China), cheap labor (India), etc.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tldr if your good enough at engineering you can be as racist as you want to be unless you’re white.

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    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They get an easier pass because the US needed a vassal state in the Pacific.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  On Okinawa, the red light area routinely used to refuse “chocolate men” for being “too strong”

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• stumu415@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have worked with a Japanese company for almost 2 years and never ever again. The racism, incompetence and ass covering is astounding. The way they treat women is also appalling but no one talks about this.

  I’ll never understand why western people love Japan, but vilify China. My experience in working in China is a total opposite of Japan.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You found that the Chinese weren’t racist or sexist? I agree with you about Japan, but China was hardly enlightened. They were mostly just louder and more obnoxious, where the Japanese were overly formal and quiet.

    Both cultures also had a lot of superstitions, like words or phrases you shouldn’t say, or lucky or unlucky numbers.

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  • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One word: “propaganda.”

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Generally I think it’s because the Japanese have had continuous cultural interacting with the West for centuries at this point. Everything from Dutch and Portuguese trade during the sengoku jidai, to pirate ronin in the Philippines during isolation, to Japanese communities from Baja Sur to the cascades, and then finally stable connections being made post commodore Perry. In contrast the Chinese have had less than stable connections due to massive cultural changes every couple hundred years including periods of isolation, the collapse of the Ming fucking up trade routes for a time, the Qing being notably more isolationist, the warlord and Republican period being a shitshow, followed by the isolation of the communist period shattering a lot of western interst, it makes for less than stable connections.

    Also there’s the whole great firewall of China thing going on which further seperates things in the modern age of the internet, it’s not total separation but it’s enough to be notable. In contrast I have been cussed out by a Japanese person, a Ruskie, an Aussie, and a fucken Peruvian simultaneously while playing games.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I see my self like both China and Japan

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Important to note that English is a world-language. So tourists from Italy, Syria, Mozambique etc also mostly speak English while visiting foreign places. This is NOT an “American tourists litter” thing.

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• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My wife is southeast Asian. Going to Japan, I felt a lot of like… weird energy at times where they just kind of looked at me. I never felt unsafe, just judged. I told my wife this, who said she felt the complete opposite. She was born and raised in the States, and we traveled to a bunch of States (fuck Missouri) where she really felt unsafe like if she didn’t leave town, they would make us. And Ive shared before how we got a “Go back to your own country” from other people, and even one showing off his gun.

  Do I feel like Japanese racism is uncalled for? Absolutely. Again, I never felt unsafe. So it’s really interesting to see this perspective in the comments like this is the worst disgusting attitude in the world because someone snubbed them.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Never heard of a restaurant posting a sign on the door saying they’re full.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The amount if racism in Asian countries is very worrying

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• shioprince@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  and yet japan is still viewed as an utopia by reddit weebs, despite japan being really racist

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• topperharlie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A couple of thoughts:

  Yes, I’ve heard before, even from people living in Japan, that they are quite xenophobic.

  Now, why is this not condemned from the west ? (I know Chinese people and they do remember WW2)

  As everything several reasons:

  Japan has a great propaganda machine to make their culture look cool AF: anime/manga, the mythology around temples, samurais, ninjas…

  The good parts of their culture, specially in contrast to the west: the extreme politeness, how clean and organized they are, civility/safety, super good and maintained public services such transport…

  The “pretend WW2 didn’t happen”. They were absolute monsters on WW2, way beyond the nazis, but the combination of doing a 180 towards the west and the atomic bombs made it so the west was comfortable with looking the other way while Japan conveniently forgets his war crimes (for anyone unaware search for Nanjing, be warned is a hard read, but is important not to forget)

  The “pacifist xenophobia”. When you go to japan their way of practicing xenophobia is quite passive, like, let’s be clear, you are loud and disgusting for them, but they will never tell you that, and you are probably never going to be in danger. At least as a tourist this is 100% like this, they might even just feel introverted rather than xenophobic. From what I’ve heard from people living there, it gets more clear when you live, but didn’t get any “I’m in danger” feeling from them, so I guess that low key discrimination is like that.

  Now, not saying any of that makes it good, but I can understand why there is a different level of pushback than to the USA for example, where if you are brown and meet an angry cop or redneck (or both), you might end up dead.

  I know for the fucking internet there is no such thing as grey, is either black or white, but I think the world is more nuanced than that.

  BTW, for their work culture alone I would never live there, and while I like an anime or two, I’m not an otaku by any means. I did enjoy my vacation on Japan several years ago, but not more than the one on China or other Asian countries.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish”

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• vathecka@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you dont have any staff who speak those languages I kinda get not wanting to provide service to people who only speak them, though it would probably be better to just say “no foreign language service available”

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meanwhile in the west:

  Racism: 🤬

  Racism against Asians: 😆😝🤡

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• bilouba@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Isn’t it xenophobia more than racism?

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• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not race but “I am tired of tourists”-ism

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Doesn’t say anything about race, just that you need to be able to read Japanese. Isn’t that more like linguism or something?

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• nil@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably not worth visiting them anyways…

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not sure how accurate it is to call it racism but definitely discrimination…. like literally.

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you could turn the lights out to the entire world for ten seconds, when you turn them back on half of Asia will have killed the other half. And if you ask where everyone else is they won’t even know who you’re talking about.

  “Not in front of outsiders” does a lot of peacekeeping. The second the west forgets NK they’re doomed, that’s why their whole foreign policy can be boiled down to “Look at me!”

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People have google translate and shit. This won’t stop them

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• mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What soft power does to a mf

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• SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like my prejudice right out in the open. Just like this

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a fully white motherfucker, that’s hillarious, I love it

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• Lectral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not racist. You can learn whatever language you want. In fact you don’t even need to learn Japanese. You can just use a translator app. This only is discrimination against those too lazy to do either.

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• Jagget@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  xcancel.com/Arin_Yumi/status/1851110720575779325

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