Submitted by Alex Birch on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 16:56.
This is a sensitive but interesting topic for a couple of reasons:
- Obama is cheered by black and white folks alike, because he's being portrayed as the new puppet leader who will end the race conflicts in America (without a clue of knowing how, of course)
- Japan is basically an ethnically homogenous nation, so it doesn't share the neurotic fear of upsetting other people
- This news report is part of the recent push for Japan to go internationalist and invite cheap labour, because of an aging population
Japan should continue to shrug over scare tactics like this and instead try to resurrect its ancient traditions. We don't need racism, but we need mutual nationalism among all people, if we want to protect our cultural heritages against the globalist hegemony.
Further reading:
Japan "Must Boost Immigration," Says Ruling Party Panel
Japan Gripped By Suicide Epidemic As Ancient Order Falls Apart
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Hilarious
"African-American Japanese resident". Seriously?
Wow.
african american japan resident
How can someone be an "african-american japan resident"? PC newspeak is really getting to be a mouth full. I'm not white, I'm an irish-belgian-german-english-missourian-indianan-wisconsinite arkansas resident. Any shorter term for my genetic and/or residential history is racist.
You can't be Belgian, you're
You can't be Belgian, you're either Flemish or Walloon. ;)
If you claim to be Flemish
If you claim to be Flemish then you get looks from everybody, just because a Flemish Nationalist Party cooperated with Germany during WWII.
Sigh...
No, that would be racist.
No, that would be racist. We have to worship political borders, and deny that different people have different genes or no one will vote for us.
lol !
It's funny to hear cnn acting outraged. I wonder if their knee-jerk reaction and rhetoric is real or are they just trying extra hard to appeal to the 'hyper sensitive crowd'
Jumping to conclusions I see...
So they depicted him as a monkey? Maybe they didn't mean anything by it. People portray Bush as a monkey all the time with no backlash whatsoever. What I'm saying is that usually these things were never a racial issue until someone else made it one.
Americentrism
I enjoyed the part of the American professor telling Japanese what they should understand, which means they "need" to internalize American problems and neurosis that do not apply in Japan.
It's better to live and let live. Japanese will live best with Japanese culture. Why are Americans telling Japanese what kind of commercials they can use in Japan?