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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I think you`d find that racial discrimination in relationships is VERY much alive in the US. Ask an average white family how they`d feel if their son or daughter brought home a black boyfriend/girlfriend.
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Nyororin, I was speaking about xenophobia rather than racism -- the two are related but not quite the same thing. That's why I compared the treatment of foreigners in Japan with that of foreigners in the United States. In this sense I think America's open immigration policy makes the distinction between locals and foreigners much less sharp than it is in Japan.
But I suppose if you compared the situation of foreigners in Japan to those of black people in the United States, you could indeed find a lot of parallels. On mixed-race" couples (even the phrase seems odd!), yes, a lot of white fathers would give birth to kittens on the spot if their daughters came home with a black man! (My uncle damn near shat himself when my cousin did that.)
So I take your point.