I notice that’s a big blunder of my last post on my part to not acknowledge those properly, could not rest until I fixed it.

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Quote one post: “I live in Okayama, I am an Australian. I hate all racist.
I have been spat on and yelled at in public and stared at in most places I go. I have also been refused service at

certain places, even if I speak Japanese.”

Wow, referring to Kara’s comment – being spat on – seems she had come in contact with an especially unique social group or area, well hopefully it doesn’t sound like I’m placing judgment upon them, but who know their reasons why of that context, but still it’s a very negative behavior; one thing is much of Japan isn’t that way, since that behavior is harshly against their social rules. Although being stared is natural for people who aren’t used to seeing someone who looks so different.

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Well regarding the blog post – about racism, it being a by-product of war, it’s a product of cultural stratification of a class system, generally when one group wants to conquer or dehumanize another group of people during war that’s what human beings use, then in return the other group resents them. Racism are institutions, though it’s experienced on individual levels people talk about in terms of who holds power in the society. Wanted to make that clear since most of Western culture tends to stress us to generalize racism with any discrimination or even social conflicts people have; as if they are all from the same box; even heard people these days say it’s natural and “cats and dogs are the same.” Usually people do not understand the differences or contextual reasons, or even why it exist and really I can’t blame them since generally most people do not have easy contact to resources of info that show the actual cultural history in their own views and actual reasons; then highly competitive or defensive social pressures that’s often seen doesn’t help I’m sure; then about Japanese it makes it even more harder since their culture is an “unspoken one,” meaning besides things one can learn in tourist-books or websites, Japanese do not like sharing about their culture social details for reasons I’ll mention in my paragraphs below, and for someone who wants to learn about Japan beyond the outside things and Western media like me it can be a burden.

Yeah, the general-Japanese do not have a cultural idea of actual hate towards other cultures or skin colors, (in fact there is a sub-culture of Japanese women in love with African culture, bumped into one all-Japanese site called “AfroSista,”) it is just Japan’s harsh class system mixed with the history of the Japanese whom never dealt with or saw others who are from different far off cultures, perhaps even after WWII there is resentment. Like you said about most of the country’s entire towns are mostly all Japanese, if you talk differently like different accent different from standard Japanese you can get Xenophobic exclusion reaction from them due to this, just looking different can bring worry due to their history of lack of experience with outsiders, like in these contexts it can’t be mistake for hate.

(People get treated harshly even if their native-Japanese and their just at the bottom of the Caste systems,) however if your a foreigner your probably better off than a lower-caste Japanese citizen; also non-Japanese Citizens are at the bottom of the caste system with lower class Japanese or non-ethnic Japanese majority Okinawa, Koreans, Chinese and Ainu Japanese Brazilian immigrants. It is a system that has strict, very strict social behavior norm. It’s part of the reason why you never see films made by native Japanese about Japan in the same way you see Hollywood films about New York glorifying it.

Like even most of what’s called “Anime” for example is design as a social escape from the feudal nature of the modern Japanese society class system, in terms of a stratified society, (stratified like in the amount of room any individual has to define their social role,) your better off in America than Japan in this case, but on the other hand Japan is cleaner and has low crime compared to the U.S, and most average people don’t keep guns. Also what you do on your own time is actually private and respected as private there, unlike here where everything is quickly to be posted on TV. Native Japanese ideal is always to their people first and any act of making something for a foreign power is always a decision based on acquiring advance technology or weapons for the Japanese,(might be where that term the “Sneaky Japanese” came from.) When the recession happened the executives of Japanese company like Sony cut there own pay checks, and workers shared checks, which is really unheard of in U.S culture huh, sharing you own pay check with your other workers to balance each other, you’d get sued over here haha! Like that old Samurai Ethic didn’t disappear simply because they put the sword away it just adapted and people stopped going to religious Shinto ceremony.

General Japan = to keep strictly and loyal to themselves and respect their native background, not actual hate for one being of different background. Like since knowing some history I can’t blame Japanese if they don’t trust those outside so much, since that’s how conflict works one group shows harm and in return the other resents them. Japanese (in general, not all) are strictly loyal to their own cultural native backgrounds as is, regardless of past wars; hence those signs of “Japanese only,” in some places, and while my common-sense knows not to believe this is the case 100% in every individual scenario – I understand it as the natives just wanting some private places just to their own out of respect of their native background and traditions, and I respect that whole-heartily; sort of like family-get-togethers – for lack of better example. It’s just for some reason I’ve yet to understand much like seeing that “ACTIVISTS’ PAGE” this translates to the many of the American people’s point of view as quite an offense, like some sort of rejection out of cultural hate, and a right to lawsuits and advertise it through internet as well as tee-shirts publicly as conflict about it, which I find deeply disturbing, not simply as a point of view, but the future outcome; since due to understanding a big part of Japanese culture is you do not ever deal, show and solve any social conflicts “publicly,” it’s considered “extremely rude” as one told me, and very “un-Japanese” considering the activist who want to help make life better for everyone in Japan who’s not a native by dealing with native Japanese this has to be understood, I admit I respect the goal much so, especially since I’m someone of mixed heritage, although the American social cultural tendency that stress the ideal that through fair competition hostile or not is the ideal measure to solve conflicts, it is the other way around with Japanese cultural beliefs.

As much there is negatives there is much to be admire, as with any culture; I suppose that’s how life is, for every negative there is positive, and back in forth.