[jesselt]

Kyle, although I see where you're coming from, you are taking it way too far. Racism is intended to make fun of or put down a race/culture. People who get Kanji tattoos are doing the exact opposite - they love the culture (or to a lesser extent, at least the written language) and want to show that. They are not intending to put down a culture, regardless of if they are or not. This is not racism. At the very worst this is ignorance. Getting a Japanese symbol for love tattooed is about as far away from racism as you can get.


Your accusations are getting worse with each post you make about the subject... You used to claim that it was "borderline racist" but now equate it to clearly racist acts like the N word or yelling about sending the Chinese home? Ridiculous.

One of the most common claims against Kanji tattoos is that it looks ridiculous to the Japanese because they would never get some random Kanji tattooed on their body. However, in many cultures (such as in the US) it is very acceptable to have tattoos in English and it happens all the time; people always get tattoos of people's names who are dear to them or even poems or sayings. 99% of the people who have Kanji tattoos will not be going to Japan so it doesn't really matter what a the Japanese would think about it. People don't get tattoos to appease others, they do it for themselves.

tl;dr version: It's not racist and would likely offend no one at all.