P.S: I’m Asian
I would argue there are differences between racism and xenophobia.
I’m no philosopher so take this with a grain of salt. The following comes from the perspective of someone living in a predominantly Asian area in the southern United States.
Xenophobia generally refers to a fear or dislike of everyone who isn’t of your culture regardless of who they are. Racism is prejudice against people of a specific race. East Asian cultures are vocally xenophobic, citing differences in morals and traditions. They don’t hate foreigners because of their race or the color of their skin. They hate when people come into their country and behave in a way that goes against the grain. Dealing with those types of people would cause them to go against the grain as well and it makes them uncomfortable.
Xenophobia generally deals with culture while racism deals with race. Both are nasty and things we can do without, but racism is significantly worse.
Idk, there’s a lot of colorism in Asian communities (and others, it’s for sure not exclusive to them). It’s extremely visible in the Asian beauty space, where there are usually like 3 shades of extremely light foundation and if you’re darker, you can fuck off, I guess. Tons of “brightening” products (that are generally just bleach), too. It sucks.
You don’t have to get a dictionary that’s too old to find the definition of racism that strictly required belief of superiority. With the old definition, things like slavery and genocide would be a direct conclusion/justification a racist would make. Words evolve though. Nowadays racism still makes you a piece of shit, but it doesn’t necessarily make you literally Columbus or Hitler - and that is reflected in the dictionary as a new definition; where hatred is enough.
I won’t pretend to know about everywhere in Asia but the number of Google Map reviews in Tokyo complaining about stores “employed by foreigners” can be jarring
In the case of Japanese, my experiences tell me it comes from the same place. At least with older generations. They don’t want foreigners tainting their genepool because it would be a detriment to it.
I started dating a Japanese girl in highschool, her parents found out I was white and forbade her fro. Seeing me. “We are very traditional” was what her father said.
Now if my daughter brings home a black guy and I insist that its “traditional” that she doesnt date him because he isnt white…
I would say context matters and of course this is not a universal truth…but having lived in China, yes, East Asia is really fucking racist. Towards their immediate neighbors in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, etc., but also to the rest of the world, and Africans and Arabs especially.
A lot, lot of racism in China. If I wasn’t Chinese myself it would have been a very awkward and uncomfortable place to be.
You’re right, but you’re also a racist. Therefore your opinion is unpopular. Upvote because you’re a racist and that’s unpopular.
This is how it’s done. Good post.
You racist.
We all have our backwater inbred regions. If intelligence follows a bell curve I think the bulge is pretty low leaning, and stupid bleeds red regardless.
