The racism of a kimono

[wagyl]

You rang?

OK, not beaten to death, but culturally dead for some years now.

(What do you call beating a random guy with a Ferrari?)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Speaking of racism ...

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SJW's are really scraping the bottom of the barrel in the search for controversy.

[matsuki]

LOL, find slights in errrrrthang!

[Samurai_Jerk]

What’s mine is yours: build bridges by sharing cultures

Edward Said, author of “Orientalism,” comes up in every discussion of cultural imperialism or “appropriation.” As his nearly religious adherents are keen to tell us, any “Western” comment on or borrowing from “Eastern” culture is at best totally inappropriate, at worst an attempt to exert cultural control.

This time a Cambridge college, Trinity Hall, has been forced by these adherents to change the theme of its summer party from a “Tokyo to Kyoto” celebration of Japanese culture to the foolproof, if bland, “Metropolis.”

A typical criticism came from a half-Japanese student who, in a scathing article about the event, said the theme used their Japanese identity as a “prop and costume.” The student rallied to Said, saying the event promoted a “dehumanizing and offensive” presentation of Japanese culture that “feeds into the history of objectification and fetishization of Asian people.” The organizers of the event, dismayed at the negative reception of their theme, changed it in order to “not be divisive.”

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But Japan? Really? Isn’t the blanket application of Said’s “Orientalism” to everything, to all issues relating to cross-cultural experiences, foolish? Worse, doesn’t it get in the way of creating bridges between ourselves and others?

When it comes to Japan, their formula just doesn’t work. Japan, the world’s third biggest economy, home to the corporate behemoths of Sony and Toyota, was never a victim of imperialism, but was itself once an imperial power.

But more importantly, what those who are attempting to “defend” a country from Western appropriation forget is that Japanese people are very happy to see their culture being shared around the world.

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The Cambridge students organizing the “Tokyo to Kyoto” event had partnered up with the university’s Anglo Japanese Society (AJS), clearly illustrating their goal of cultural appreciation rather than appropriation. Sae Kawakami, head of the AJS, expressed her sadness over the theme cancelation, saying: “As a native Japanese student, I feel strongly about sharing Japanese culture with the Cambridge community. The June event was an opportunity to celebrate Japanese culture.”

Another Japanese student, Isabella Yamamoto, commented: “For the most part, my English friends have a genuine interest in Japan, but have rather limited knowledge, leading to slightly ignorant questions like ‘Do you eat sushi every day?’ When I heard about the theme, I was excited because I would finally be able to share elements of Japan that I love with my university friends, such as the Bon-Odori dance, which is a fantastic part of Japanese culture.”

Okazaki spoke enthusiastically about the potential for events celebrating Japanese culture, saying they make people more “aware of your culture” and therefore more accepting of it. The Trinity Hall event was a chance for Cambridge students, most of whom cannot afford an expensive plane ticket to Japan, to learn about some aspects of Japanese culture, and to develop greater cultural empathy.

[matsuki]

Was the "half Japanese" student born and raised in the US?

I wasn't born and raised on the reservation so I sure as hell wouldn't presume to make those kinds of "MY CULTURE!!"comments and shit about some sort of event that was being encouraged by people that were.....

[yanpa]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

[wagyl]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Check your privilege, white boy!!!

[yanpa]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Check your privilege, white boy!!!

Are you stereotyping my ethnicity and gender identity?

[Isle of View]

I bet that "half-Japanese student" has never even been to Japan.

It used to be that the Editor would take such a letter and sensibly file it in the waste paper basket.

Now with social media, every such clueless fuckwit can contact and resonate with other such similar fuckwits.

Rather than paying any attention to them,
society should put up a cordon sanitaire around social media and get on with reporting the news and other events.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'm a half-wit.
Laughable arguments about cultural appropriation by spoiled little bastards are an affront to my heritage.

[Russell]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Hear, hear!

Personally I am sick and tired of my Dutch culture being appropriated by so-called Dutch wives in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Dutchness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the Dutch community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation"...

[wagyl]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Check your privilege, white boy!!!

Are you stereotyping my ethnicity and gender identity?

Are you cis-white? Otherwise, we can't let you use the white toilets.

[inflames]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Hear, hear!

Personally I am sick and tired of my Dutch culture being appropriated by so-called Dutch wives in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Dutchness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the Dutch community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation"...

I heard Turks got the name Turkish bath changed...

[Russell]

Personally I am sick and tired of my British culture being appropriated by so-called British-themed pubs in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Britishness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the British community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation".

Hear, hear!

Personally I am sick and tired of my Dutch culture being appropriated by so-called Dutch wives in Japan, which are inevitable poorly-thoughtout cliches of the original, pandering to local prejudices about Dutchness and sweeping aside careful consideration of ethnic and cultural historical identies. Have members of the Dutch community been consulted about this trivialisation of their culture for entertainment purposes? I demand protests and long articles featuring complicated academic words such as "implicit dichotomisation"...

I heard Turks got the name Turkish bath changed...

Yeah, yeah, but the Turks have a proud culture...

[Wage Slave]

http://www.kabutonoodles.com/

[matsuki]

Crispin Busk, the founder of our noodle empire

[Samurai_Jerk]

http://www.kabutonoodles.com/

That site's an SJW's wet dream.

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[Wage Slave]

Could perhaps add a few simpering oriental handmaidens but yes, it's pretty impressive.

[kurogane]

That site's an SJW's wet dream.

I was offended by the reverse racism of the Fork Swinging Samurai........then I read the website.

Sweet bejeezuz

[Wage Slave]

Crispin Busk, the founder of our noodle empire

[wagyl]

I just came across this elsewhere on the web and it reminded me of this thread.

There is an Indio Muerto Street here in Santa Barbara. Indio Muerto is Spanish for Dead Indian. Several years ago a group of college students decided that the name was racist and had to go. They had protests and everything.

The Native American tribe that is local to Santa Barbara is the Chumash. One of the Chumash elders was asked by a reporter at the local newspaper if he found the name of the street offensive. Thinking about his reply makes me smile to this day. "What I find offensive," he said, "is a group of white college students taking offense on my behalf."

[kurogane]

When I hear these words that are his I know there is truth in them and my heart soars.

[matsuki]

I just came across this elsewhere on the web and it reminded me of this thread.

There is an Indio Muerto Street here in Santa Barbara. Indio Muerto is Spanish for Dead Indian. Several years ago a group of college students decided that the name was racist and had to go. They had protests and everything.

The Native American tribe that is local to Santa Barbara is the Chumash. One of the Chumash elders was asked by a reporter at the local newspaper if he found the name of the street offensive. Thinking about his reply makes me smile to this day. "What I find offensive," he said, "is a group of white college students taking offense on my behalf."

LOL....but were they actually white?

[wagyl]

LOL....but were they actually white?

A quick look at the graphics on the UCSB website suggests that there is little diversity, and what there is consists of black men with rhythm, and Japanese LCD researchers who had long felt that the Japanese system does not encourage people with their get-up-and-go (or at least, doesn't reward them properly, but that was no secret from way before he started research).

[matsuki]

Oh it's a pretty white area/school....just wondering if the students in question were actually white or if the elder was just making an assumption.

[Takechanpoo]

"raw" voices of j-women suffering racism overseas.
http://girlschannel.net/topics/738582

googletranslate and read it and you will cannnot help but understand that compared to your violent countries, racism in japan is pretty fucking trivial at least at the level of direct physical racism in daily life(not at the institutional level).

verbally abusing in your face, throwing eggs to you, ignoring your order and physically abusing. these direct racisms hardly happen here in japan.
"j-ppl are always staring at me as if i am a rare animal!! fucking disgusting! " so what? huh? just endure it like a dog.

[Samurai_Jerk]

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I'm offended this anti-white racism.

High School student's costume called out cultural appropriation

One student really mixed things up at his school's spirit week.

While most classmates dressed up in traditional costumes representing different cultural backgrounds for Culture Day, Josh Welch dressed up as a thief – representing white people stealing other cultures.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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I'm offended this anti-white racism.

High School student's costume called out cultural appropriation

One student really mixed things up at his school's spirit week.

While most classmates dressed up in traditional costumes representing different cultural backgrounds for Culture Day, Josh Welch dressed up as a thief – representing white people stealing other cultures.

Cultural appropriation is one of the most dumbfuck Merkin ideas I have ever come across.

[Yokohammer]

Cultural appropriation is one of the most dumbfuck Merkin ideas I have ever come across.

Totally agree. What a stupid concept. Anything to take righteously indignant offense. If the righteously offended would just take the time to list all the things they eat, wear, say, or do on a daily basis that have been "appropriated" from other cultures ... they probably still wouldn't get it.


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[Samurai_Jerk]

Cultural appropriation is one of the most dumbfuck Merkin ideas I have ever come across.

But leave it to an Australian to actually give it legs.