Posted on 07/11/2005 6:11:57 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem.
Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, was speaking at the end of a nine-day tour of the country.
He said Japan should introduce new legislation to combat discrimination.
Mr Diene travelled to several Japanese cities during his visit, meeting minority groups and touring slums.
He said that although the government helped to organise his visit, he felt many officials failed to recognise the seriousness of the racism and discrimination minorities suffered.
He was also concerned that politicians used racist or nationalist themes, as he put it, to whip up popular emotions. He singled out the treatment of ethnic Koreans and Chinese and indigenous tribes.
Mr Diene says he plans to recommend that Japan enact a law against discrimination, which he said should be drawn up in consultation with minority groups.
He said he would now wait for the Japanese government to respond to his comments before submitting a report to the United Nations.
" Bet they have little crime,"
Crime is way up here ...especially murder ...bodies everywhere ...
" bet they are not paying blackmail payments to welfare voters. "
They pay it to the Yakuza ...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
" Bet they are not suffering from more internal murders every night than a country in a war zone."
Getting there ...slowly but surely ...
Well, those are white and asian societies you are talking about. In this country those two groups are legally discriminated against in college applications.
Apparently you must be either a Black, Hispanic, Indian, or Muslim to be the victim of discrimination in this country.
Not sure it should occur. We should not be bashing the Japanese for the simple fact that they scare the living hell out of China. We will need Japan when the war comes.
I was stationed there for two years and I saw the blackface pictures on products. I thought it was funny. As a black woman, it certainly didn't affect my way of life over there. The Japanese are some of the kindest, most polite people I've ever met. I don't care what they may or may not say behind their back about me (and why spend your life being that paranoid?). Let them have their all-Japanese bars, there are hundreds of other bars where I can find a drink. My cousin taught English there for three years. She loves the place and the people. There's nothing wrong with people congregating with their own kind. Japan's business inner circle is also closed to foreigners. That's just life.
Sounds familiar.
" is a racist society."
Whatever racism still remains exists in old fogeys over 60...The Japanese are no more racist per capita than the US , England or any other Western country .
They're not doing that now, are they? Hey, what about the treatment of Africans, forcibly brought to America hundreds of years ago? Over and done with.
Looks like the Japanese are in deep Doudou now.
Does this keep you up at nights?
No surprise indeed. Japanese racism is a well known part of their national character. I'd be more interested (and even impressed) if the UN investigated the continuing Arab slave trade, treatment of Filipino and other guest workers in the Arab Gulf countries, and how Islam justifies (along with mass murder of innocents, pedofilia, second class treatment of "dhimmis", etc.) all of this. Not holding my breath on that one.
I think an investigation on the racist government of MEXICO, would be more of a priority. Afterall I don't see many Japanese paying coyotes to sneak them acros the border.
Never trust a guy named "DooDoo", especially if he's from the U.N.!
First, the old fogeys still run the country. What percentage of the Japanese population are foreigners? Of different races? How are Koreans and the Ainu treated?
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" Japan has not reached this stage. Japan is an outlier; from the racism viewpoint, it is a pariah state. Racism lies in the very fabric of Japanese society; it is still at its primitive, visceral and atavistic stage. It is so ingrained that Japanese often appear totally bewildered when told they are racist. Being racist and being Japanese are so intertwined that racism is not seen as a form of deviance, but as normal. So Japanese racism is rarely expressed in vituperatively violent form. It is passive, intrinsic, underlying general social behavior. Barring foreigners from joining golf clubs, for example."
is rain wet?
I recall him telling me once that the Japanese don't like American Blacks.
on the other hand, in terms of actually gaining entrance to such a bar, concerning the number of foreigners beat up by Japanese in such a bar, vs. Asians beat up in American bars by patrons, solely on race, i'd probably wager that would be much more on the American side. So there you have it. not a clear cut situation as to who harbors more 'racism'. i'd say more 'subtle' racism toward the non-Japanese by Japanese in Japan; and more 'violent' racism--resulting in injury or outright death--toward the non-White/non-Black, Asian by Whites or Blacks in the USA. take your pick as to which is more nefarious
Yes. A simple answer.
I've heard they don't like the mixed races they created through the war. Such, is life. If I was having that difficult a time, I would move. I would gladly live among the Japanese, rather than some ethnicities in America.
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