Are Japanese people really that racist?

UCLAri
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:45 +0000

gkc4,

You’re confusing the reasoning for the eyelid fold surgery to an extent. While there is an argument that it’s to “caucasianize” the eyes, there is also significant evidence that the double eyelid was considered desirable long before Western influence.

futurenyustudent,

The line you describe is not always so clear.

As for Citibank, I’m afraid that you’re still wrong. Regulation was the problem, not the name. The name, to this day, is still “Citibank” in Japan. The Japanese couldn’t care less about English names-- if they did, none of their OWN businesses could flourish! Citibank had trouble, however, with the rather onerous regulations that Japanese banking was subject to prior to the “Big Bang” reforms in the 1990s. Their model did not work in Japan like it had in other countries.

The fact is that NO Japanese banks are really what we would call “successful” in recent years. I mean, look how far the IBJ has fallen since the 1970s and 80s.

Narcissa,

I don’t mean to marginalize the atrocities in Korea or China at all, but I think it’s a FAR greater crime how the Armenian Genocide gets even LESS discussion in American schools than the Rape of Nanjing. While I obviously believe that Nanjing is under-discussed, at least it is at least somewhat present in academic and popular discourse. Armenian Genocide? Not at all.