Admittedly anecdotal but I recall when my brother went on a school trip to Japan, him and his school mates were expected to do an embarrassing dance number akin to the Haruhi Suzumiya dance for the students of a Japanese school; I also recall folks who went to teach English in Japanese schools who were merely hired as aides to repeat what the teacher was saying but in a goofy manner. I was like "What a racist cult- oh wait we do that too".

I remembered Ken Jeong and hearing him speak in an interview and was shocked he didn't have that accent he puts on in his movies. I then remembered some Asian Americans who said you have to sell out deeply to be accepted in America, and if you say one thing that can be interpreted as pro-China (even calling out Japanese war crimes against China), you lose everything. We like our non-white Americans to be stereotypes and we get scared when we can't otherize them; we're also quick to distrust them.

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[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Try to rent an apartment in Japan as a foreigner. 'sorry no gaijin'. Yeah it still happens. So much racism fucking everywhere it's exhausting

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

do they apply the us-foreign-policy filter for defining someone as "gaijin"

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are much stricter over there, white boys are dirty gaijins too, same if you're Asian but not Japanese.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

japan never denazified either it seems

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

They haven't. They are still denying their warcrimes commited during world war II, and they have a shrine in Tokyo in honor, amongst others, of the people responsible of the Nanjing massacre.