Are Japanese people really that racist?

lreade
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:25:46 +0000

I’m an american and have been living in japan for the past year and a half. I would say that the Japanese can be quite racist, especially towards Koreans and Chinese. Even my mom’s private students (she teaches english) have said, straight-up, that they don’t like Koreans. I have korean friends here who definitely feel at odds with the Japanese.

I think that the japanese people’s racism, though, dates back about a hundred years, to the conflicts they had when they colonized korea and had a war with China.

Racism towards african americans…that’s probably because most of the black people here are mobsters from Nigeria who run the bars and get in gang-fights.