Posted on 03/25/2015 11:31:16 PM PDT by Cronos
Edited on 03/26/2015 2:17:50 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Half-Japanese and half African-American, Miss Nagasaki Ariana Miyamoto is the first-ever mixed-race Miss Universe Japan.
But changing perceptions here can be an uphill struggle. In a culture that typically prefers pale -- where "pure Japanese" white skin is considered a symbol of beauty -- the darker skinned Miyamoto's crowning last week was a revolution on the runway.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
We are Part of one Race, the Human Race.
Sadly others don't see it that way.
In many MANY places on Earth. Not just here or Japan.
It's Human Nature.
...you have a point regarding the Japanese hot chicks...
The Japanese are perhaps the world’s most unashamed racists. They look upon some races as worthy of emulating (Caucasians) and others as simply inferior. Africans are in the latter category. Mixed race, Japanese and Caucasian or Japanese and Korean or Chinese, girls are popular as models and seen as quite exotic. But they are not considered truly Japanese. Even Japanese who have spent time overseas and picked up western attitudes like individualism are “henna nihonjin”, or “Strange Japanese”.
“Everyone blood runs red.”
Except Mr Spock. He was part Vulcan and had green blood. ;)
Japanese from the main islands don’t consider Okinawa Japanese as “pure” Japanese. Rural people don’t usually mix with city folk.
All true. But unlike the usual “racist!” epithet Liberals throw out when they feel the ground beneath their arguments give way, I and most if not all of us who are using the term here mean it in a neutral and purely descriptive sense. It’s just how the Japanese are and they’re not inclined or likely to change.
LOL! that’s when his Human red blood overrode his Vulcan, “Not logical, Captain”.
Back in the 1950s, our math teacher in Yokohama, Mr. Yajima, was a German national who had served on the Russian front in WW II.
The Japanese who knew him found him perfectly acceptable.
Well, Japan is one of, if not the, most racist societies on earth, so....
She did not pose for the magazine. Bob Guccione Jr. bought some intimate photos of her from a former boyfriend and put them in Penthouse magazine.
Also, please take your racist crap somewhere else.
Regarding “white,” white used to refer to Northern Europeans, and distinguished some Caucasians from other Caucasians.
Also, about the number of races, there are maybe five: (1) Negroid, (2) Mongoloid and (3) Caucasian, (4) the indigenous people of Australia and (5) the indigenous people of the Americas. I realize some people fold #4 into #1, and fold #5 into #2, but computers will sort human genomes into these five major groups. Within the Caucasian group, there will be the obvious break-downs.
We might have been the first country to define citizenship as a choice, rather than race or ethnicity, or even heritage. As A. Lincoln put it, we’re “a new nation, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The French define citizenship as a language and culture. I think this is the emerging consensus of the center-right in Europe. You can be German, for example, if you speak the language and embrace German culture of having a balanced life of working, family life, etc. The left define citizenship along the lines of income distribution, in terms of what “rights” the government gives you. (Of course, to us, these aren’t rights at all, they are privileges bestowed upon some at the expense of others.)
The Japanese, being an island people, have held onto the idea of Japanese being a race or ethnicity for a long time after other democratic people have moved on from that definition. The question is, however, can they hold on to the idea of Japanese being a language and a culture if they start accepting that a person might have a different skin color?
Yep. His last name, O'Bama, is a giveaway.
She is very pretty, but just as I would abhor the Japanese poking their nose into our country’s societal affairs, I’ll stay out of theirs.
It’s their culture...right, wrong or indifferent from an American POV.
“Regarding “white,” white used to refer to Northern Europeans, and distinguished some Caucasians from other Caucasians.”
I think the definition of “white” can also be subjective; that is dependent on a viewpoint regarding nationality. For example, I know people whose parents and ancestors (as far as can be traced) were only Eurasians. They look “white” in skin complexion like, say, Eastern Europeans, but aren’t from Eastern Europe.
In genetically mixed countries like Iran, those from upper-middle class families traditionally (over the centuries) kept their kids out of the sun so that they didn’t ‘tan’ or the gradual change in skin pigmentation, which tanning due to exposure to the sun is, could be minimized.
“Also, about the number of races, there are maybe five: (1) Negroid, (2) Mongoloid and (3) Caucasian, (4) the indigenous people of Australia and (5) the indigenous people of the Americas. I realize some people fold #4 into #1, and fold #5 into #2, but computers will sort human genomes into these five major groups. Within the Caucasian group, there will be the obvious break-downs.”
Actually, “indigenous inhabitants” of a country (minus genetic mix) have developed protections against a climate of a country. Or broadly speaking adapted.
Australia, for example, is not continent which naturally and climate wise would be welcoming to (fair-skin) Europeans. The sun is very harsh, hence many cases of Melanoma, especially among Europeans.
But, indigenous Australians (Aborigines) are definitely not “Negroids” of Africa. Got to look at facial features and naturally straight-hair too. I believe they’re Polynesians, with darker skin.
As for Japan, a Japanese friend from Osaka told me that Japanese are a hybrid of Chinese & Koreans - linguistically and racially.
Jolly sad.
She is a lovely young woman.
There is no doubt about how beautiful are Persian women.
The people who constitute the Caucasian race all have their origins in Central Asia. (Ditto the people who constitute Mongoloid race.) Differences among the Caucasians do not seem strongly correlated with their location by latitude from India to Europe. In southern India, there seems to be considerable mixing with descendants of the the first great migration out of Africa (which made its way eventually to Australia). Caste or caste-like systems appear to have distinguished some from others even in the same location. You can see this among, e.g., Ghanians, as well as among Indo-Iranians. Some Ghanians look (pure) African, others look mixed-race (like most African Americans).
The people of northern Europe are particularly white, more so than other humans at about the same longitude. We also have particularly light-colored eyes and hair. Among most other humans, our colorings are juvenile. Yet, we can suppose, these attributes enabled us to better adapt to the conditions of northern Europe. Adaptation and cross-breeding with other migrations could explain the uniqueness of the original peoples of Australia and the Americas.
This is all quite fascinating. But, nowadays, what does any of it mean? We are all human beings and we are no longer bound by survival of the fittest by our genetic code. We are increasingly in control of local climates, can fashion artificial shelter and clothing; and, furthermore, can access foods from far away places. Old taboos about marrying within your kind no longer make any sense. Black or yellow or olive-colored people can do as well in Norway, as white people. For Norwegian to mean something today is cultural and not genetic.
I was in Japan for a couple months as a Gaijin of mixed ethnic background so I figured I would weigh in on this for the heck of it. When I was there for I had a project with the navy to work on, to be honest I didn’t really run into any flak there, there was maybe a couple non-friendly folks there however you see that everywhere you go, and some places did not cater to gaijin but Japanese only, you just avoided those places and my basic knowledge of Japanese society, language and the anime I watched got me plenty of respect.
Japanese society in my opinion is what it is, and there are those who are bigoted out of ignorance or the the us vs them mentality that they are taught from when they are little, and even Okinawans, though are Japanese Citizens they are not really considered Japanese, however with this being said when I was there I did not encounter any BS so to speak and not everyone is like that.
- just my two cents.
What I am doing is pointing out racism.
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