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Originally Posted by MMM
YIKES! I am glad I dug deeper. Does her grandparents racism sound like progress to you?
You have met loads of people who are interested in you because of your race and the color of your eyes. Tell me, when were white people shunned in Japan after the Meiji Restoration? Again, does this sound like progress to you?
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hmm, racism generally comes with a notion of negative prejudice...
Japan is racist in a different way, positive prejudice, in my opinion...
I guess I'd rather be falsely admired than thought of as a lesser being, is what I was getting at.
excluding ww2, I'm not sure that there was any point where Japanese people hated or shunned white people.
I think my point at first was that an international/intercultural relationship would do just fine here, in fact it might do better, perhaps due to this.
I guess a black woman coming to Japan might have difficulty finding a man who likes her instead of liking her skin or what she represents in the country. Tough one to test.