Japan Won't Accept Mixed-Race People as Japanese

What's it like to be half-Japanese and black in Japan? Takeshi was born abroad to a Japanese dad and Kenyan mom. He didn't feel quite at home abroad and relocated to Japan to rediscover his Japanese heritage. He is now living in Tokyo as a manager at a gaming company.
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[@wavewatcher_]

His facial features are 100% japanese though 😂

[@duttybwoy556]

Exactly... that's what I said... It's just the hairstyle what makes the Japanese doubt..but his face is totally Japanese moreno, Japanese with browning skin , similar to Filipinos , I've seen many Japanese men that look like Filipinos(Asian face with a little naturally tanned skin) so basically it's just the hair , that's the factor that makes Japanese people see him different...

[@Nunawariyaku]

No lo veo así, si ves tiene doble párpado, sus labios son más gruesos que el de los japoneses, y su nariz tampoco es 100% japonesa. El corte de cara si es japonés. Lo que si tiene es un aire japonés, en su forma de expresarse, y se nota que es mestizo pero al tener doble párpado y labios gruesos, cuesta saber si es con Japonés, o si es con Latino. Acá muchos se ven como él.

[@Callabunga24]

He looks Jamaican

[@advil9567]

@@Callabunga24I don’t really think he looks too Jamaican tbh but there’s no way to actually know without asking him

[@Bodball]

​@Callabunga24 not really, just his hair is making you say that. Facial features are definitely Japanese.

[@taoiseachjager9643]

People when europeans or americans are racist- >:( People when japanese are racist- "its just their culture you have to respect it" :)

[@kev2034]

It's because they want to return to an attitude like that but they know people from their own country will tell them off.

[@AEOH3X]

@@user-ye5xe5pp3cand you should learn better English or use Google translate, ya ignoramus

[@AaronQ64]

​@user-ye5xe5pp3c Global society thats only become more so. That sort of bias is unacceptable period and should be treated as such or we wont see behavior change.

[@Aereto]

​​@@AaronQ64 Same energy as people who say anime is offensive; you are full of yourself. We are not fixing that if we are continuing to insult their more tame culture portions and not addressing their population and workforce problems. Degrading the very things that keep people sane is why we can't have nice things.

[@AaronQ64]

@Aereto Well, there's a huge difference in pointing out hey lets try to avoid this and explain why in a calm, kind tone and then calling people out and calling them awful racists. We are all flawed and could improve and we should try to help each other improve but theres a way to go about doing that.

[@raeestheviewer224]

Her: "So, have you had any negative experiences?" Him: Thinking about how he had 10 bad experiences in the last 6 hours

[@Bam_Bizzler]

Lookin at the cop in the distance lmao

[@youngsandwich2792]

Tyrone Yakimoto

[@Chaoskoch]

If it's so horrible he can leave.

[@elliuozaG]

She should have asked about any positive interactions

[@DragonTheButcher]

@@Chaoskochare you slow? I’m American who hates how no matter what side of the aisle politicians are corrupt but I can’t just leave. It’s like teling a black man he can just leave the US if he hates it’s so much. If he is native to Japan he can’t just pick up everything and leave your comment is beyond 100% ignorant and shows how much you know

[@sebcw1204]

When i was learning japanese, my teacher warned us about visiting. He said theyd be polite but cold to foreigners. He also warned us that if we ever wanted to build a family with a japanese person, that our kids might be better off in America.

[@pikachuzap223]

Interesting I saw an interview where a mixed Japanese girl said she preferred Japan. The bullying in the US was too much. He mentioned that in JP it's avoid what you don't like but in the US it's attack what you don't like. But I think he went to the US around Junior High so culturally he was Japanese and related less to his AA side.

[@cyndicottrell21]

My brother-in-law is full blooded Japanese, so my niece and nephew are Irish, Dutch, Scottish, German, French, English and half Japanese. When my sister got together with him my grandma begged her not to have children. Afraid of the racism they might receive. But they really didn't really to my knowledge. When my nephew was in high school girls thought he was Hispanic. My sister also told Mr he started filling out forms as a Pacific Islander.

[@indianajane8694]

Another word of caution.. some Japanese women will commit parental kidnapping.

[@Mary-wo5pv]

​@@pikachuzap223Bullying in Japan is pretty bad, I heard a half Japanese girl saying she was way better when she came to study in Brazil (she was half Brazilian half Japanese), but I guess that's because here in Brazil we have a HUGE Japanese population, so if you're Japanese you won't face much racism here (just in some cases, but it's really not normal)

[@Shannon-vv6rr]

​​@@pikachuzap223bullying in Japan is way worse-it's lawless. The laws do not prevent serious attacks, murders, hate crimes, etc and kids laugh because they know if they literally murder another student they won't get reprimanded. There are no consequences for children to the point where alot of teens and kids believe (rightfully so) that they can do the sickest things to others. Japan actually has a horrific bullying problem.

[@SA-ym7ry]

So accurate. My boyfriend is 100% Japanese, but his style and appearance is very very different from the clean-cut look. And he does sometimes get stopped by police asking to check his bag. Exactly as this man said! Even sometimes, people will mistake him as not Japanese or half as well.

[@staticbuilds7613]

Sorry if original comment offended people. I will do research and try to be better for future. Thanks you to those who informed me and to those who insulted me, Have a nice day as you need it.

[@wunwun9974]

So japanese police is allowed to search your belongings without a reason? Or is this just legal when dealing with non-typical looking people?

[@Conestabile83]

It's so sad. >.

[@MovingMad]

@@wunwun9974well they can ask to search your bag just like anywhere i don’t know if they can just seize it to search but they can definitely ask to search. in japan the people are so polite they’ll almost always just say yes you’ll be looked at with so much suspicion if you said no.

[@pinkfurryhat]

The police there can do that? 💀

[@eliburke2779]

I can say from experience that if you speak even a drop of japanese no matter who they are they will most likely say “oh my god your Japanese is so good!” (If you look like a foreigner) Edit: just wanted to clarify I do live in japan and I am half Japanese, I just look American

[@cgeorge3785]

happens in many other Asian countries as well.

[@Hughesed]

Nihongo jōzudesu 😂😂😂

[@goyam2981]

Haha. I can pass as a Japanese and airlines ground personnel saw my name and passport but still somehow asked if I spoke Japanese. And I did get nihongo jouzu too.

[@YuujiVermillion61]

Wow great japanese ​@Hughesed

[@creativepicnl]

I never got that line but I did see some faces of admiration and a few “at least you tried” ones😂

[@judjudersawn2596]

Never in my entire life have I seen an Asian guy get called a liar for saying his name is Andy

[@Abby_Liu]

as a Sydney resident you wouldn't bat an eye at an Asian person with the most European name. 'yep that checks out'. bonus points if they're Chinese and their Chinese name sounds like their English name.

[@chrisdawson1776]

@@Abby_LiuYet another Western country conquered by invaders. Many such cases. Sad!

[@spongeboymebob771]

I wouldn't bat an eye if it was like Andy Wong or Andy Takamura or something, but if it was like Andy Smith I'd at least be like "huh?"

[@S5Dic09]

asians are everywhere like other stuff and you know that, is like expecting blacks to be named omau, or jamal

[@KombuchaBuzzed]

That’s cuz they’re only telling you their American name to fit in. Most Asian Americans have 2 names.

[@eriveltomartinsbarrosjunio9022]

I'm Brazilian and before getting married I used to date a mixed-raced girl (Japanese father and Italian mom; a very common mix in Brazil). And because her father was from Okinawa, he was already considered less Japanese.

[@rosethorn0232]

This is a nuance that I think many people here are missing. It isn't just that East Asian cultures make mixed people feel like outsiders...they can easily make their own people feel like outsiders too. It isn't all about racism necessarily, it's the culture itself. There is just this enormous pressure to fit in and behave in certain ways that just doesn't exist in western countries. The social pressure is just on a completely different level. I've seen many Asians who moved to western countries, or who were born in a western country but have visited Asia, give this as the main reason why they do not want to stay in Asia. Places like Japan and Korea are amazing on the surface, but the longer you are there the more you feel like you don't belong. The social expectations are very very specific and you're basically in a competition with everyone else all the time.

[@starflite-lightwing777]

That's just sad, dude. Mixed ethnic people would have to be the way of the future, and so many get treated like that. :(

[@JoJo-gt7ty]

​@@starflite-lightwing777"way of the future" how?

[@frofrozzty]

​@@JoJo-gt7ty the 23&me and Ancestry tests exist for a reason. No one is 100% anything and what we use to linguistically refer to groups doesn't always actually reflect genealogical terms. As time moves forward and our nations become more interconnected and immigrated families become generational, "mixed ethnic families" are inevitable as ethnicities naturally mix as cultures exchange. What you define yourself as is already more based on citizenship than genealogy in most of the world.

[@JoJo-gt7ty]

@@frofrozzty hilarious that you come with this BS about percentage when I never talked about it. "What you define yourself as is already more based on citizenship than genealogy in most of the world", keyword: "most", but you're wrong anyway, the only countries like that are those in the Americas, even in diverse countries like Nigeria in Africa or Indonesia in SEA there are clear and distinct ethnic identities Anyway, ethnicity is first and foremost a matter of genealogy, doesn't matter if one identifies themselves as Japanese or not, they objectively are (or aren't) Japanese, period You talk as if multiethnic countries will become the norm but you can't know that, and cultural exchange doesn't have anything to do with that anyways; Japan, S. Korea, Poland, et cetera have done cultural exchange throughout the centuires and remains homogenous

[@londonje4547]

I have lived in Japan for a few years and understand that as a 190cm, 91kg man, I will never fit in. Japanese are polite, but that does not mean welcoming. I have gotten the “No Gaijin” treatment at bars before despite speaking Japanese. Japanese society is very strict. You are either Japanese or you are not. We have had parents that specifically want their kids to play with our kid because she’s white and others who won’t let her play for the same reason.

[@Shayman94]

White gaijins have it better in JP tho, for the most part. Be a coloured one..oh boy. The things I've heard from actual randos out in the street as a brown man.. damn. And I was just visiting lol.

[@PonPonFizzy]

It’s so weird because I’m sure they wouldn’t like to be treated like that if they came over to the west

[@CloudCollapse]

Saw your Reddit post the other day. The foreigner circle in this country is quite small.

[@NcessNasya]

Deal with it, Gaijin. 😂

[@Kurameno]

Yeah, the Japanese are still very very closed off to anyone who isn’t Japanese

[@brucekaraus7330]

Sorry, "That's not your name, you're lying!" and"Your Japanese blood is thin." both sound pretty negative.

[@user-nf8ji9nq9y]

Racist as fuck. Shame on Japanese racism.

[@davidr2421]

It sounds like maybe he didn't get very offended by those comments, so they weren't "negative experiences" per se

[@Tam0de]

The Japanese blood being thin might sound weird or awkward if translated in English but i believe it's like saying your Japanese DNA is not sufficient for you to pass as Japanese. Whichever way you look at it, that can't be a positive thing if you wish to be accepted as one of them.

[@DembaiVT]

​@davidr2421 Japanese culture is different. That probably hurt him deeply. But complaining is counter culture and not acceptable. So the laughter after recounting the bad memories is to save face.

[@lennartdahlback]

- Your Japanese blood is thin! - Oh, thank you very much! - No, that's bad.

[@ThoughtfulBiped]

I have had chickens for many years and even they know what each other look like and choose to hang out amongst the same breeds. Racism is terrible because, as humans, we should know better than a chicken. But, seemingly, it is a natural response to "difference." Though, I have never seen a chicken get lynched. So, there's that.

[@MangoSmoothy]

Beautiful comment. Stated so eloquently and matter of fact. We should know better and do better as humans

[@KxNOxUTA]

To be fair animals do kill over that and you can argue that being pecked consistently is more cruel than getting lynched. Yes, it is a response that made sense in the past and has valid functions today. But as always, the function is nit the problem but ppl's low EQ AND low capacity for new input, which by the way is also dependant on how much tine society gives ppl to e.g. just sit down and get accustomed to something unknown. People (most animals, too) are known to be less open when in survival state than when safe. Literally how pets are a thing and we see all these very social inter-species relationships amongst the pets of ppl. They are fed and safe. That's what it takes. And a system that keeps the equity in the distribution of spoils!

[@lohostege]

I mean, with albino babies, they sometimes get killed

[@alyssum130]

Yes, we should know, because we are different creatures. Intelligent Creatures and humans learn from society and from their upbringing how to behave, because we are social Creatures.

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

My chickens aren’t “speciesist.” They all peck and dust bathe together. Not appropriate to anthropomorphize animals.

[@0106johnny]

Honestly, as a half-Japanese person I 100% get why Germany and Japan were allies in WW2. When I'm in Japan I get treated like an exotic curiosity at best and some kind of incompetent untermensch at worst.

[@0106johnny]

@@JoozOwnTheMedia-xi3fl Nah, not really

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

for the record, in germany you only get stared at if you look unusually foreign for the area. xD and that is less likely.

[@8bitchiptune420]

@@Ass_of_Amalekhe means they were both racists.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

@@8bitchiptune420 no shit they were, and that's not what OP said, because he was reporting current day experiences.

[@joannaaltena8174]

No. They also stare when you speak a foreign language. Wuff!

[@phoebe3575]

I saw this interview once with a girl whose British parents moved to Japan before she was born - she was born and raised there, Japanese was her first language, Japan had always been her home, but everyone would always treat her as an outsider. It’s not even about skin colour in Japan, it’s literally if you don’t look 100% Japanese, you don’t belong there :/ Yet I hardly see anyone mention it, it’s so weird

[@OliverSkatt03]

It’s not a White Majority nation. So to even point it out means you must’ve been teamed up with some White Supremacist somewhere to fathom the idea. They’re trying to erase White People, White People are the only people that have to be “reminded” that they can’t be proud of their ancestors in any capacity and that they’re a virus.

[@Un1234l]

This channel's uploader literally hung out with and interviewed that British woman and her brother.

[@InterceptorUS]

It’s because a lot of Americans don’t realize even tho the US isn’t perfect the US is still literally one of the least racist countries on the planet. It’s ignorance. Pure ignorance and stupidity. If you don’t realize that other countries exist you also automatically assume you are the most racist country because you don’t really compare yourself to anyone else.

[@kailaniandi]

One of the most racist countries in the world

[@thebone4971]

Because thats just their society, in other parts of the world its weird to think thats the norm. It doesnt need to be mentioned as its nothing that has a particular need to be brought up. I think the Japanese way of thinking would benefit a lot of other communities, be polite to all even if you dont accept them.

[@spacecentergames]

I remember this one time a Japanese detective showed up at my door, and practically accused me of having something to do with an elderly person dying on natural causes in her house somewhere in the neighborhood. She'd been dead for a week before anyone found her. What? I let him know that I did not know her, or any of my neighbors, because everyone avoids everyone here. Spontaneously, he demanded that I assure him that I wasn't illegally in the country, by showing my alien registration card. Without turning my back on him, I pulled it out of my wallet. He said he had more questions, and actually expected me to let him in my apartment. Nope. I told him to ask whatever he wanted right there. And give me back my card. It looked like he was thinking of actually pushing his way in, or keep my card. But I was a foot taller and obviously not impressed with him. At the end of the interrogation on my doorstep, he was obviously disappointed that I wasn't somehow responsible. I then commented that it was her family and culture that had abandoned her to die alone and obviously unloved. I then slammed the door in his face. Japan has these awesome metal doors that slam very well. He didn't come back.

[@reginald6451]

What u commented at the end must of puzzled his mind all day uncontrollably 🎉

[@_--Reaper--_]

They got some real nice slammy doors then, yeah?

[@urmomdotcom4039]

😂 that must have felt satisfying

[@franciscocz8384]

This seems too fake to believe. 😂

[@spacecentergames]

@franciscocz8384 😉Live in Japan for a few decades, and you can live through some silliness.

[@wendyhannaford7696]

My cousin is 1/2 Japanese, this is true, when his father died the Japanese mother abandoned him, and his grandmother, my Grandmother went over to care for him since he was a baby, the mother did not attach to him because he was not 100 percent. This topic was discussed , I remember being shocked as a child

[@FunkyGreenMagic702]

Damn that's cold 🥶

[@melcco]

Im a mixed Japanese too. But all my life nobody even suspected that I’m half peruvian. Even when I meet people I tell them I’m half, and 5 years later, I tell them my mom is hispanic and theyre like “what???”. It totally depends on how you look. Ive been treated as any other japanese person. My name is fully Japanese too. The only big feature that got passed down to me by my mom is probably her skin color. I’m pretty tan and get tan superrr easily.

[@JapaneseAmericanaJiuJitsu]

Yo, I’m “full blood” Japanese but just because I grew up in the states and can speak English fluently, and have some hiccups in cultural customs, I have been lambasted by other Japanese so I cannot imagine what some of these mixed folks have to go through.

[@nerothewateruser8030]

Ah, another full blooded 'other'. You'd think being fully one 'side' by blood would resolve everything, but... (Mexican in my case, but we're in the same boat otherwise)

[@triniscout]

No

[@thegreenmage6956]

That’s because BEING of a specific ethnicity is blood AND culture. You have to have both - otherwise, you’re representative of something else, that’s just how it is.

[@wintermoon7003]

I had a good Japanese friend who even spoke with an accent but couldn't speak Japanese. I asked if he would teach me because I genuinely wanted to learn and that's when I found out! I even mentioned his accent and we had a good laugh over it. Yeah, all the accent without the actual language! He even had a rather thick one too!

[@thegreenmage6956]

@@wintermoon7003 It’s very, very sad when that happens, I have seen it happen. Globalism is incredibly cruel to the individual.

[@urphakeandgey6308]

I have the opposite issue. I'm 75% Japanese and blend in fine, but once they learn my name, I kind of become "the American friend." I have an English first, middle, and last name. Once they find out I speak perfect English, it's over.

[@semekiizuio]

Why don't you change your name or use and alias name, you can have to different names based on the country you're in

[@freyafoxmusic]

Then change your name in Japan. You can register a kanji name

[@Mimi-jl5ci]

How is your Japanese speaking ability?

[@CharlesNauck]

@@semekiizuio Yes, why don't you hide who you are as if you're ashamed of it!?

[@nagger8216]

​@@CharlesNaucklol I know right? We read and watch stories about this exact scenario all the time, and it seems nobody here learned anything from them.

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

And let’s not forget their indigenous peoples who until recently have been excluded, harassed, disenfranchised. Only now are they starting to stand up for their rights.

[@Panchocastillo420]

Indigenous? Tell us about a few and how they are being treated.

[@spongeboymebob771]

Indigenous? In Japan? Sooo...the Japanese?

[@tinamoir2450]

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Japan.

[@JoJo-gt7ty]

​@@tinamoir2450the Yamato (the so called Japanese) have been in the archipelago for as long as the ainu. When will you people actually study the topic at hand?

[@tinamoir2450]

@@JoJo-gt7ty by "you people" who are you meaning? As an indigenous person in my own country, I do have an interest in learning about other indigenous peoples. Admittedly, just dipping my toes into the wider indigenous space. The Ainu have similar mythologies to ours which peaked my interest. Thanks for the new topic to look into though.

[@thelastcrusader5439]

That’s something I’ve learned on my vacations to Japan, people there are very racist, I’m white/Latino so my skin tone is relatively similar but then people saw my face and stepped back, even my Japanese-American wife has been called out because of me, doesn’t help that I’m a foot taller than the average Japanese man

[@gordonmorgan6298]

Who cares

[@aetherion7]

That is SO interesting. Also you have not mentioned your EXACT ethnicity. White is a general term for homogeneous Europeans, or of mixed European origins, and "Latino" is not a race at all.

[@Uohhhh777]

I would say them plap plap get pregnant repopulate repopulate get pregnant ​@@gordonmorgan6298

[@DragonTheButcher]

@@aetherion7bruh what? I feel saying your race in this context is somewhat important to let others know how other races are viewed. Besides not your story so my guy can say whatever details he wants

[@DragonTheButcher]

@@gordonmorgan6298you because you felt the need to comment like a hater

[@JVLawnDarts]

Telling biracial people they’re lying when talking about themselves must be a shared experience for all of us cause holy shit you’d tell someone and they’d just refuse to believe you

[@iB0NKERS]

Exactly. I’m half Mexican but white passing since my mom is Irish. Growing up (and even sometimes now) people never believed me. It’s isolating. As an adult, I noticed people would stare at me (particularly Latinos) and they would ask if I was Spanish or spoke it, as if they’re playing detective and trying to discern if I’m one of them or not. Lol. After years of this, I’ve come to recognize the expression. 😅

[@amandab8433]

Sadly that is the experience of two of my children. I'm Black and my husband is White. My middle daughter looks Latina, and tried joining a group at Uni, but they refused to believe she was Black. That's until she showed them my picture. She ended up not joining the group because of what she went through. My youngest daughter looks straight up Caucasian, and people have always asked if I was the babysitter, or if she was adopted 😒. She was asked to join a famous sorority at UCB, but she found out they only wanted to fill their "POC quota", and liked that she was Black, but didn't look like it. She bailed on them, and decided not to join a group any.

[@RambleOn07]

The grievance Olympics have done nothing but increase tribalism. Strangely enough, engaging in identitarianism just makes everyone more identitarian.

[@salj.5459]

@@iB0NKERSBut there are plenty of light-skinned Mexicans like Canelo, and people in Argentina are also light-skinned. Did you grow up in the US or in Latin America?

[@iB0NKERS]

@@salj.5459 - USA. And I know, which is the irony. Even some other light-skins in HS didn’t believe me because I didn’t act like them or whatever. I always thought it was weird.

[@angryface01]

I’m half Japanese. Upon discovering our biological family, they (the Japanese relatives) told me and my half sister that we were not welcome and to go away. Thats my experience with my own culture. They said the same thing, that our mixed-ness ruined the Japanese in us. No thank you.

[@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist]

What… but it was your parents decision to have a mixed kid, unless you mean like outside of your parents.

[@CharlesNauck]

Gross, but you're wrong. Your culture is those that hold the values you hold dear. Not some bigoted relatives. I hope you found your culture and are happy in it.

[@angryface01]

@@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist I was adopted by Americans. My half sister and I share the same 100% Japanese mother. She had a lot of children and gave them all away. Her family disowned her. We didn’t know that. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@angryface01]

@@CharlesNauck I have banded together with other half-Asians. We support each other in connecting with our roots while establishing new connections. The bigotry we experience doesn’t go away. But, we didn’t emerge out of nowhere. If they hate mixed people, why they keep mixing? We just try to be good people and leave the bigots alone.

[@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist]

@@angryface01 Thats sad to hear, were you able to reconnect with your mother at least then?

[@inner_chaos]

Pulled over??? For looking different. Come on Japan

[@thorick590]

In the '70s I knew a Japanese immigrant, a young woman that had a post WW2 Japanese American soldier father and Japanese mother. She told me heartbreaking stories about her tortured childhood when she was never accepted as a Japanese person and was labelled 'GI baby'. She was relieved to be in the USA and finally free of all of that. It's not just about being of pure race or pure appearance.

[@tuckernutter]

Racism is racism, regardless of skin color. Poor dude deserves to be judged for his character not his blood

[@Droepram]

Not considering him to be fully Japanese is not "judging" him. It's just biological fact. If he is half Japanese then he physically cannot be fully Japanese. That is impossible.

[@coheteos]

​@@Droepramyour attention span is smaaaaaaaaaall

[@ianmiles2505]

Says who?

[@jamiefroud633]

@@DroepramClueless.

[@tuckernutter]

@@Droepram you're comically missing the point and therefore your comment is worthless

[@dbabakh8911]

For a country and culture all about respect, Japanese people dont extend it to foreigners or those they don't trust.

[@animeotaku9110]

It also doesnt help that foreigners do stupid stuff in Japan and video tape them doing those stupid stuff...

[@NcessNasya]

Kudos to every Nihonjin for that.

[@vercoda9997]

Hard to say. I've had a couple of (gay) Japanese boyfriends who were handsome but psycho; Japanese housemates who were positively neurotic and as friendly as icebergs; and other Japanese housemates who were charm personified, and as warm as a summer day. While it's easy to generalise about entire peoples, ultimately everyone is an individual, and must be regarded as an individual person in their own rights.

[@DougBurgum4VP]

Because it is based on trust. They trust locals more than tourists.

[@animeotaku9110]

Well, with foreigners having more and more bad reputations shown on the news, it really isnt surprising... Influencers, just tourists, etc... Depending on who the locals interacts with, that will be their first impression and it is hard to remove that first impression if they dont/cant interact with foreigners who knows how to respect another country's culture...

[@corngremlin]

My computer programming professor was a boack japanese man, and i was baffled when he told us. Shock amd awe, truly. A few months later, i met a very tall older white woman. I couldnt place her accent, so i asked her where she is from. When she said Zimbabwe, i was floored.

[@chegu613]

there haven been white european settlers in zimbabwe. that woman likely wasn't ethnically zimbabwean.

[@Minney-Me]

Zimbabwe...I'm weak 😂😂😂

[@grandmarshallkingwolfman420]

Zimbabwe used to be a British colony called Southern Rhodesia. Hell, about half the continent of Africa was part of the British Empire until the 50s-70s or so. Not only were there whites in those areas, but South Asians as well.

[@lifeofmrbigspring9752]

I’ve been telling people Japan and other Asian countries can be very racist. Especially to black folks. My buddy hated it in Japan and Okinawa because they looked at him like a bottom feeder for being black. They ignored him, acted scared around him, and avoided him like he was radioactive. I notice Japanese and Okinawan folks wouldn’t talk to me when he was around.

[@cacogenicist]

I've spent about a year in Japan. No problems with police, as a fairly clean-cut white guy, but 2 times I was stopped and asked for ID -- both times I was with an interracial white-African guy with, uh, suspicious, big _hair_ I guess. We were both students at Jōchi Daigaku, so we were sent on our way pretty quickly. But black folks definitely catch more shit from cops there than people of European extraction.

[@Umezete]

The police here in Japan tend to be WAY worse against anyone vaguely with African ethnicity. I'm white and haven't been stopped in quite some time though it used to be almost a weekly occurrence.

[@Shayman94]

Yep, us colored folk have it way worse unfortunately.

[@NcessNasya]

Cry about it, Gaijin. 😊

[@NarnianLady]

Funny enough that in some videos black dudes from the US have commented on how safe they feel in Japan compared to America!!

[@Umezete]

@@NarnianLadyJapan doesnt' have guns so when cops stop you your chances of being shot for no reason aren't high.

[@Chan12282]

I live in the US and am half Cambodian and half white. My name is a very common Cambodian name. I had a full Cambodian ask me “why is your name so Cambodian if you’re only half?” Like wtf does that mean? I can’t participate in my culture or have an identity that shows the culture without being 100% Cambodian?

[@Phlegm_Thrower]

Probably because usually Asians put white people on a pedestal and want their half kids as white as possible.

[@evolad2463]

cause you're a half breed

[@TheSpicyLeg]

That’s the expectation now. It is a result of the oppressor and oppressed ideology of the US. If you are more than a drop white, you MUST be associated with the white oppressor. Any gradation instantly disproves the ideology, and thus can not be tolerated. It is another facet of anti-whiteism, in which your purity as an oppressed minority has been sullied by your white blood. Bummer, man, I feel for you, but just remember who made the rules.

[@batbee7427]

Dude, I feel you. Grew up in a KKK/AB hotspot. Am Creole. Was not "allowed to be white" if that makes sense. Was hard. (Irony) Now, I deal with white shaming/discrimination as an adult...And I'm like, "Reaallllly?". 🧐

[@keymaker2112]

This is a fun one and I have a theory on it. I'm 1/2 White and 1/2 Korean btw. When I went to college and met some full-blooded Koreans and they discovered I was 1/2, they insisted that I, "Visit my homeland someday." I explained that Korea was not my homeland, America was. They laughed and said, "You have Korean blood, so Korea is your homeland." This made no sense to me as an American, and not wanting to cause an argument I dropped it, but I learned something important that day that I have observed over and over and over again when meeting non-Americans (by that I mean people not from the Americas, not just the USA): To the rest of the world blood matters, to the Americas culture matters. What exact form that takes varies, from me being 1/2 and accepted, to others being 1/2 and rejected, but in both cases culture doesn't seem to factor in. Meanwhile in both North and South America, culture seems to be the dominant determinant of identity. There are some obvious exceptions to this case, but overall I tend to assume that to Americans your cultural beliefs are going to be key, and with non-Americans blood is going to be a bigger factor.

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

News article just yesterday, a Japanese town is building a huge tall black screen so tourists can’t stop and see Mt, Fuji. Want and need their money but don’t want their foreign habits.

[@VLFBERHTwolf]

In anime there is a fuck ton of characters that are foreigners or aliens or half-human or gods or monsters or exiles that just want to be accepted by the people who are in society. Yet, Japan is moving at a snails pace to realizing their flaws.

[@sissysovereign1294]

The irony is strong. In Fictional settings Japan is a diverse big tittied interspecies metropolis, but in the real world, they're anal af when it comes to foreigners/non passing Japanese people

[@Chudsmash777]

But those aren’t black people…

[@andrewince8824]

What flaws? Super low crime rate is telling us something about the people they're keeping out.

[@VLFBERHTwolf]

@@andrewince8824 True. But still.

[@andrewince8824]

@@VLFBERHTwolf not really a "but still". Pushing failed Western idealism would only cause the degradation of Japanese society the way it has in the nations which have fallen for the bollocks.

[@MrMarxy]

It's very interesting. My Sensei in high school would often talk about her experience as a mixed person of Japanese and American descent. In Japan, she was constantly othered and whenever she goes she gets people talking to her saying "your Japanese is so good you're a natural!" and other such things. They look at her and they immediately see a foreigner and someone who could not be Japanese. Meanwhile all of us looked at her and we had no clue she was mixed until she told us. We were under the impression she was Japanese and that's all. To her, no matter which country she went to, she is always seen as different and a foreigner, and while I'm glad she has made the most of it, it's truly very sad.

[@indigocheetah4172]

My daughter's friend who she was at school with is Japanese and Australian. Her hair is thick and blonde.

[@michelerorabaugh8134]

Life choice has consequences

[@AleAlejandro666]

As mixed race that’s just how it is, neither group will truly accept you and why should they really. Not saying it’s fair but that’s life and why some people discourage mixed race babies. I remember asking my mum what am I? Like I have a half home here and a half home there, I can fit in but never truly be fully accepted etc so am I this or that? She told me “you’re neither, and you don’t have to try to be either. You’re your own type of person and you can see it as good or bad, and allow it to be a strength or weakness”. It seems your friend chose right with how to use herself

[@jasonchui111]

Is very hard to unwire approx 20000 years of human triblism. Stanger danger is real and if you do not look like me you are danger until proven otherwise.

[@SommerIsley]

Oh hush. Im sure she was fine in america.

[@pixelatedmess9269]

It honestly gets really exhausting because at a certain point every conversation feels like a fight to justify your own identity.

[@callum9999]

Japan is a great country, but their culture has many SERIOUS issues. It frustrates me to no end how many westerners glorify it without qualification.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Too bad, just stay out then

[@MangoSmoothy]

​@@commisaryarreck3974 "I love my island of xenophobic racists who would keep me out too!" The world would be better without thought processes like yours

[@starflite-lightwing777]

Yup. These kinds of videos makes me more disillusioned and glad to be born and raised in the USA, even though I had a strong passion for Japanese culture for a long while. Their food and quality of life is impressive, but I'd rather not ever visit the place since that I know I would not withstand the intolerance.

[@polkunus]

I am mixed japanese. Everything he’s saying is the surface of issues and is 100% right. Theres also a lot worse

[@thatonespooder1513]

Go on

[@anthonygregory6797]

@@thatonespooder1513 I mean you see it in America, see how white people are treated, always people being racist but wanna act like their not while preaching about Japan, the irony.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

well at the end he's talking about police harassment, that's already pretty bad. all the more so in japan, where the cops can basically get any nobody locked up for a pretty long time or force to pay just about any fine by keeping them in jail as long as it takes for them to take a plea deal to avoid the otherwise inevitable BS court case, conviction, and years-long incredibly fasc°stic imprisonment. japanese prisons are absolutely terrifyingif you're not into spending all day every day following orders that basically amount to making the prison, inmates, and everything going on look flawlessly tidy like you're being t°°tured by mr. miyagi

[@marcbrisbane6800]

I have a friend whos black, lived in scotland for years, deported to spain and said they are the worst racists

[@marcbrisbane6800]

​@@Ass_of_Amalekno he is not. He literally speaks of how people treat him bad. "Your blood is thin". That seems offensive. Then he went onto the police scenario

[@sub7se7en]

*Describes negative experiences in Japan because he looks foreign* "Have you had any negative experiences here in Japan because you look foreign?" 👀

[@JT_Gamble]

Was thinking the same thing lol, but it is a short sooo

[@lilbossmichellegill2034]

🤭

[@trophyscene5015]

People with brown skin get treated the same way in every country in the entire world. It's very unfortunate, and seems to be a staple of The Human Experience.

[@oshawott4544]

​@@trophyscene5015 what about African countries? You know, the ones that are almost completely brown?

[@James_Edward59]

@@trophyscene5015I have brown skin and get treated great many places but I also treat others great and present myself well as I would expect to get treated based off how I look and act since we live in the real world.

[@1Enclave]

KZbin is slowly turning into Reddit and Twitter

[@OrientalPearl]

How so?

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

I lied in Japan for several years, due to my job. I was living with a security detail as certain Japanese groups didn't like my presence in the country.

[@Retroopers]

Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Japan 2015. They wanted to deny her the title because she was born and raised in Japan to a Japanese mother and a black father. After some international backlash, they withdrew the denial and gave her the title.

[@Salty_Dice_Clanker_in_Exile]

That's a shame. They should have pride in the ethnic purity of their bloodline.

[@DuckReach432]

There's no such thing. The only race is the Human race.@@Salty_Dice_Clanker_in_Exile

[@Retroopers]

@@Salty_Dice_Clanker_in_Exile elaborate.

[@Salty_Dice_Clanker_in_Exile]

@@Retroopers just saying, that it is sad that Japan did not have the stones to stand behind their Miss Japan being 100% Japanese. Especially because of backlash from other countries, who should be more worried about themselves, then worrying about how Japan wants to represent themselves in a Japanese Beauty contest.

[@Retroopers]

@Salty_Dice_Clanker_in_Exile I may be reading wrong, but I'm seeing a slight contradiction. Earlier, you said, "purity." Is that different per the "stones?"

[@dreamfragments]

man everyone all around the world will legit say "youre lying" after they ask what you are. as a mixed kid, its very tiring. You just end up telling everyone they are right, to avoid conversations.

[@DillyTheWillyWilliams]

Discrimination is discrimination regardless of who or whats doing it. Its just that simple, people just make it complicated

[@silentj624]

Japan is the only country i know that gets a pass for being racist. People even use the word xenophobic to soften it. Call it what it is. RACISM.

[@kadinnui2282]

I think it's often called xenophobic in regards to how they think about korean and chinese people.

[@bweaddss]

@@kadinnui2282and the other way around, too

[@ca_kay]

​@@kadinnui2282Which is ridiculous since the majority Japanese look are from Chinese ancestry, and Korean and Chinese people have the same exact blood.

[@Tass5433]

​@@ca_kay Similar looks doesn't make two ethnicities the same.

[@Hetzrr]

Who cares? The Japanese shouldn't have to change for you.

[@Hinatachan360]

I was born and raised in Japan, but I'm hafu (half Japanese/half Nigerian). I understand what this young man is going through.

[@chuckh4077]

Don't scam us please

[@Hinatachan360]

@@chuckh4077 What are you talking about? I was born in Naha, Okinawa which is in southern Japan. My mother was Okinawan and my father was Nigerian. He was stationed in Okinawa through the Marine Corps. My younger brother was born there as well.

[@chuckh4077]

@@Hinatachan360 your Nigerian side. Please don't scam us

[@Hinatachan360]

@@chuckh4077 OH! The joke went over my head at first! 😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@chuckh4077]

@@Hinatachan360 I know you think you're a Nigerian prince looking to get your fortune out of the bank. All I need to do is send you $400 for the withdrawal fee Not falling for it. 😆

[@Twintimedragons]

Bro i want to say thank you for being able to say yes even though you probably didnt want too. Thats VERY hard to do if yall dont know.❤ Thank you for standing up for yourself❤. EVERYBODY should be able to do this

[@anthonygregory6797]

Unless your White in America.🤦‍♂️

[@PowerYoutuberViewer]

Been to 11 countries on 3 continents and Japan is the only one where I've had a man shout at me with a megaphone that foreigners need to get out. I have many wonderful memories from the short time I worked there, but I'd be lying if that experience hasn't affected how I think about Japan as a whole.

[@burchified]

Japanese will say he's black. Black people will say he's Blackanese.

[@Sum-Ting-Wong71]

And A.A.'s will say that they were the original Asians.

[@stephencornett5520]

​@@Sum-Ting-Wong71No, but they will say Japanese people descend from Ammonites who descended from Lot just like Chinese people descended from Lot as well but both Moabites.They will also say so called Asians were all black but not the same race as A.A. people but at one time before mixing and leprosy definitely black.

[@dud3655]

​@@Sum-Ting-Wong71 Technically, the original human skin color was black, as we migrated out of Africa and into colder lands we slowly developed whiter skin due to us not needing as much resistance to the UV rays of the sun, so producing that much melanin would just be a waste of resources.

[@calamity0.o]

​@dud3655 we are all just shades of orange

[@Sum-Ting-Wong71]

@@dud3655 The 'Out of Africa Theory' has long been disproven.

[@breezeh1127]

This even happens in the same households with family members unfortunately. I experience thus as a kid. Most days I do not look as much like my grandfather's side (Japanese Chamorro) of the family as I do my white Irish fathers side. My grandfather never missed a chance to tell me I was big like my white father and had big feet like him and was too fat to look like his family. It is hard and I'm sad for those who also feel not accepted by family or even strangers.

[@nowintroducinghertome]

Huhn Japanese Irish... Oh mah God. I love it. I'm Italian,scots-irish,Cherokee,Welsh of my father. Italian momma. Boy when I say Irish don't like Italian. They serious jack. Then I married into a black family 😂😂😂😂

[@breezeh1127]

@@nowintroducinghertome So you get it for sure.😔 Even my Japanese side doesn't accept my Chamorro side because of the dark skin. I think all these mixes are beautiful 💗💗 ** if that is a picture of you on your profile..you are stunning 💗

[@rekt-oe1eh]

Diddums

[@urmomdotcom4039]

It's crazy the bs people will let come out of their mouths. Sorry you had to deal with such ignorance from your own family member.

[@breezeh1127]

@@urmomdotcom4039 Thank you 💜

[@ArchangelExile]

The dreadlocks is the biggest culprit in disguising his Japanese blood. I don't know about anybody else, but I can see the Asian features in his face even though its faint. He could look like a Filipino or Indonesian. If he changed his hairstyle, it'd be easier to see.

[@Shannon-vv6rr]

His features look 100% Japanese bro

[@angelparrilla2068]

"You are lying" "Why would i lie about that?" Well, not you, im just saying weebs are a thing... they get... really weird.

[@james_holder]

Why do the Japanese get a free pass when it comes to things like this? It's racist but people defend them saying "oh no they're just curious they don't know any better" but it's blatant racism. Imagine talking about someone's blood running thin because of what their skin colour is. I'm sure this guy loves his life in Japan but damn this is so weird to me that people just let it slide

[@salmaabdullahgb]

Exactly, because a lot of the west fetishise the culture

[@kiirakunn]

if you live on the internet, youll think west is bigoted, racist and 'phobic'. try going to asian countries, its racism on scales yall have never seen before. and no, you cant 'cancel' them on twitter over it. it is simply part of their culture. even the asians amongst themselves are racist towards eachother due to simple things such as looks. i think tourists and western looking people in asia dont even get half the racist shit on them as native asians do between eachother.

[@Umezete]

Cause alot of bigots are envious of Japan's "purity" and will defend them because they desire ethnostates for themselves.

[@Erdwick]

The Japanese are constantly targeted by western, Judaic, Chinese marxists and jealous 3rd worlders almost as much as Europeans are to not be "racist" and destory their race and nation

[@luckytanuki5449]

Because "Only white people can be racist" or so a lot of people nowadays will try to tell you lol.

[@ihbarddx]

My daughter-in-law is half-white and half-Japanese. She felt out of place in Japan, and moved to America. She felt out of place on the mainland, so she and my son live in Hawaii. There are a lot of people there who look like her.

[@yourtexthere1323]

That's why you dont mix race. A lesson learned for future generations that are selfish.

[@superkakorot]

​@yourtexthere1323, that is completely an ignorant statement. There are many people throughout the world that have zero issues with a person of mixed background. Also people mixed background tend to be healthier due to the genetic diversity of their parents. It avoids inbreeding and problems which Japan being a island nation has issues with.

[@ihbarddx]

It's an ignorant statement to say my DIL felt out of place because of her mixed race? She told me so. That would make it an _informed_ statement.@@superkakorot

[@superkakorot]

@ihbarddx I was replying to '' that's why you don't mix race. A lesson learned for future generations that are selfish.' I was replying to that one. Look at the @ sign....

[@ihbarddx]

My bad!@@superkakorot

[@Annimations]

Man getting asked questions by cops every day must get exhausting. I’d be making an FAQ sheet

[@OrientalPearl]

Me too lol

[@V0NRH1NE]

I mean they're not wrong. The blood is thin is an accurate way to describe what the actual situation Is. Usually no malice with it, just factual. If I was partially japanese I'd expect the same kind of treatment.

[@Smitywerban]

My commanding army officer here in Germany told a hilarious story like that. He was on a training exercise dubed the "hunger week" where they have to visit checkpoints and objectives without much food for an entire week deep in rural Bavaria. He was exhaused and staved to the limit so he wanted to cheat by asking a farmer for food. So he knocked at the door of a farmer and a deep black hugh back guy opend the door...and proceeded to talk with the single most inaudible bavarian accent he has ever heard. But great guy, gave him food never told anyone and came to visit the base a few weeks after and ultimately his son enlisted.

[@Praxographist]

Bs

[@baul997]

Not really saw similar cases happen here

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

While he might have broken the training, he did make a friend, which... I say is a good trade

[@Salty-Unggoy]

Not a real German.

[@Smitywerban]

@@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic he still passed. Didnt get cought

[@ToxicMothBoi]

Then again, as a german who is 100% german and even looks german, police have pulled me over to check my bag and my id, then they tried telling me its a fake id (sure as hell wasnt) and when i asked for their badge numbers they akwardly told me "well i think we are done here, we have your contact info and you'll be hearing from us soon" Went to the police station right after to report them because thats not what cops do...

[@darkhobo]

That's exactly what Japanese cops do. They treat foreigners like criminals.

[@datcheesecakeboi6745]

Japan is a lil different, they can request to look in your bag without a reason, and people just say yes

[@Manilove223]

​@@datcheesecakeboi6745because they're taught to be obedient and scared of confrontation

[@datcheesecakeboi6745]

@@Manilove223 no its called respecting authority, they have nothing to fear from the police Yknow like most countries, we watch you guys b*tch and moan and go "I have a right I refuse everything" when literally it would of took 5 min to sort it out if you didn't act like that And all the "ima sue you" I ain't even japanese

[@reisen1932]

​@@Manilove223Sounds like your usual Asian countries. Either it's Japan, Korea, China or Vietnam; they have their similarities in this direction. Conservative and Collectivistic. Not that's all negative. I like that they're different from the Western standards.

[@logicallydashing]

Just goes to show that racism can exist anywhere and from/to anyone. Treat people with kindness and respect regardless of how they were born.

[@pericleslegendario7022]

I look white, people always stare when i speak my mother tongue, spanish, because i'm from Mexico, i've never been in the US, yet when they come for tourism you see them everywhere, one gringo once told me "damm kid, you sure you didnt get robbed from a hospital?" i've also been hit with "you a mixed one that's for sure" and my favorite one "ah! One of the good ones!" Like sir the only thing i did was speak english and ask what is going to be your order.

[@xXPAKSLAYERXx]

Even racism is glorified when it comes from Japan Edit: the amount of Japanese white Knights under this comment is insane. Proceed with caution.

[@adamantobserver8655]

Because its JAPAN!

[@NcessNasya]

Cry harder, Gaijin. 😊

[@xXPAKSLAYERXx]

@@NcessNasya you got more comments on this short than job applications in your entire life, weeb

[@ElectrostatiCrow]

KO. Knockout Perfect game 😂​@@xXPAKSLAYERXx

[@user-rl7mt4gh3o]

as american not all japanese behave this way but all nations needs to realize we are same equal human this has to be a lesson to japan in general all ethnicities & nationalities are equally

[@CaptainFoufeu]

I'm mixed, more so from my Mom's side than Dad's, which is mostly European, but still complex. My paternal uncle moved to Japan in the 70s and got married there to a widow with one child who was only a few months younger than me. My uncle had to use my aunt's surname because the locals refused to use his name of German descent. He was often disrespected by people who didn't know him. They had another child, who is only a few months younger than my sister. The most amazing thing about that family is that my aunt was a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb survivor. She lived in the valley past the hill about 7 miles to the northwest of the bomb dome, so they were a bit protected. Her dad was a Navy medic who wasn't at post that morning as he had an evening shift. They turned their house into a free clinic to help victims. My aunt had to be a nurse at the tender age of 8. She later became a doctor and continued to help bomb survivors. She died about 10 years ago.

[@mealovesyu]

That’s amazing

[@Hickory958]

That is actually incredible. Wonderful family

[@doracotterell2863]

Thank you so much for sharing their history. What country do you reside in now, if I may politely ask you?

[@saveEarth69]

That is quite the story geez

[@CaptainFoufeu]

@@doracotterell2863 I've always lived in the USA, except for the 8 months I was stationed in Thailand while I was in the US Army, training Thai soldiers. I traveled to over 50 countries during my service of 16 years, on every continent, and spent a random amount of days, weeks or months in each, depending on what I was doing there. But Thailand was the longest amount of time. I don't speak the language. I had translators.

[@jakestablettableto9453]

Its like this everywhere, im from UK and dont see anyone whos not ethnicly british as british, never have never will.

[@anamokena-nicol4247]

Japanese have many tribes also that they came from originally including those who were a little bit darker. The hair being dreadlocks is not completely 'foreign' either. My brother told me that people would just think we didn't have someone to help brush our hair anymore. 😅😅😂 my other brother told me he would disown me for having dreadlocks - right after I lent him money for an icecream. I love my asian family.

[@seosamh.forbes]

A good thing about living in a melting pot like America is if a Japanese-looking guy were to walk up to me speaking perfect English with a name like "Matt" or "Ben" I'd think to myself "This guy's American." And then have an interaction that most likely won't involve race. I could only imagine how exhausting it'd be to always be like "No, I'm from here." Just cause my skin's different.

[@willhelmberkly3025]

@seosamh.forbes The down side of living in a "melting pot" is the ever present danger of racialized crime, racial politics, the never ending flood of illegal immigrants, affirmative action, having a low trust society...

[@shadow6543]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@urbirdfriend]

I'm Asian-American and lived in a SEA for a while, and yeah that was basically my daily experience - having to explain to people I didn't speak the local language (my family isn't even from the country I was living in anyway), and that I couldn't understand them. Most people were fine, but a few seemed to get angry with me about that for some reason. It was extremely exhausting to have to explain to everyone literally everywhere I went

[@emem2863]

It depends on where you are in America. I've gotten the "What are you?" interrogation often. However, I agree, that Americans in general are accustomed to there not being a specific skin color, body type, or hair texture that defines being American.

[@seosamh.forbes]

@@emem2863 yeah I'm from the south and I've heard wild some wild things out of people's mouths, and a lot of folks cling to a past that's really not worth it, but generally around here it's about who you are not what you are

[@ThrashRebel]

I lived in Japan for 12 years. The racism is the thing I hated most. Especially, when Japanese people gave me looks of disgust while I was out in public with my son. You could see the disgust in their facial expressions seeing a white father with a half-Asian son. The thing is how accepted racism towards others is amongst the Japanese.

[@yourmom9951]

It’s not racism to want to protect your society, culture and bloodline.

[@terwillagermcghee4148]

​@yourmom9951 that is totally a major baseline of racism.😂 What do you think racism is? You don't have to be killing people to be a racist.

[@Dude-xv4os]

@@yourmom9951ok hitler

[@Terminalsanity]

@@yourmom9951 Actually yeah wanting to "protect" your culture from the existence of foreigners doing nothing but living their lives and your "bloodline" from race mixing blood is in fact literally racism.

[@hughjanus700]

Then maybe you should leave Japan. They're not like America or Western Europe where they have been gaslighted and brainwashed for decades into hating themselves. The Japanese don't want to throw away their identity in favor of becoming some cosmopolitan nightmare

[@Hankbhomeless]

Homie is named after the largest manufacturer of 3 and 4 cylinder diesel engines, largest compact tractor line and thats badass

[@Colossal322]

Japan being racist isn't a surprise. People forget ww2. I never will.

[@stillhere1425]

An online friend who was non-Asian-American married Japanese and her children were Japanese and they all lived in Japan. So Judy was bilingual and a Japanese citizen for many years. She recalled an incident when she was grocery shopping and she heard one local housewife ask another, “Where is the bread?” The second local housewife answered “Over there, by that FOREIGN woman.” Judy was not so much insulted as dismayed to know she and probably her children would always be considered “foreign” by their countrymen.

[@idkyorkie]

when I was in rural japan the old ladies that didn't know I can speak some Japanese would always refer to me in conversation with others as 'stupid white boy' lol. "where is the stupid white boy. give the stupid white boy a try. can you ask the stupid white boy." it was always old women which was odd, but it was kind of funny. can totally understand being annoyed and insulted by it though if i really moved there

[@zachary-jaypeters3240]

That's the thing they are a foreigner though, even if you move there and obtain legal citizenship and have children you are still a foreigner so why would they treat you the same as someone who was born and raised and shares the same race as them? Your friend is an outsider in their country and you can't just go to people's countries and demand they see you as countryman when you aren't.

[@zachary-jaypeters3240]

countryman noun plural noun: countrymen 1. a person from the same country as someone else. "they trust a fellow countryman" So yeah your friend isn't a fellow countryman and it's actually incredibly racist you demand the natives to treat you like a native when you aren't one

[@bigol9223]

Boo hoo I guess

[@brandonfoley7519]

It turns out other countries are just as racist as America

[@Tam0de]

My uncle, when he was a child in the Philippines during WW2, looked like a typical Japanese boy - i've seen old photos of him as a child & it's funny how he looked like one lol. The Japanese soldiers who occupied his village were quite fond of him & as a result, his family were allowed to do whatever they wanted, unlike the rest of the locals. They were quite protective of him too & would take him away everytime they would commit atrocities to spare him from having to witness it. Just a minor anecdote from WW2, not sure if it relates to the video but i felt like sharing it.

[@davidlafleche1142]

Look what happened to Koreans in Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake.

[@HungryLoki]

The things people do to convince themselves they're not utter trash.

[@h0td0gwater]

Fascinating story, thank you for sharing ❤ it can be so hard to contextualise - what you've rightfully callled - atrocities without oral history like this.

[@Imserious184]

That's really terrible but I'm glad he got out safe. ❤️

[@juleso7592]

That ain't your uncle 😂 that's from a show my guy 😂 mmk

[@coreyrini550]

My Japanese best friend that lived with me in the US for several years told me about stuff like this I kind of didn't believe it at first.

[@QuilloManar]

America: We are the most racist country Australia: Hold my beer Japan: 緊張して笑う

[@northernheel2829]

America cant even be compared to a lot of eastern european countries.

[@mushmush4980]

The fact that America is the least racist developed country really says something sad

[@betterdrugsthanyours]

Don't come then. Why are you here? Weeaboos and Kpop dorks come to channels like these just to complain and satiate their victim complex while knowing virtually nothing about the culture/society/people. "It's racist that Japan isn't more like my morally superior country." Good stay there we don't want you here.

[@asdfbeau]

@@mushmush4980 the fact that racism and crime seem to be inversely correlated says something worse.

[@MysticOceanDollies]

America gets called out more for it, but these countries don’t. That’s why it’s worse in places like Japan.

[@RemedieX]

And this is why the whole "it's their culture" argument means absolutely nothing to me and I couldn't care less about their "culture." Same applies to others. Culture is no excuse to treat others like trash, it just makes you trash for trying to use it as an excuse.

[@jasonhuynh5174]

I don’t believe it’s exactly “their culture” but it’s the fact that Japanese people don’t normally live around any diverse racial group so they are often conservative too and when they see someone who’s physical appareance is not exactly Japanese’s then they’re going to go off of stereotypes

[@RemedieX]

​@@jasonhuynh5174 Going off stereotypes is fine as long as you don't immediately assume the person you're interacting with is the worst, lesser, scum, etc., and proceed to insult them - that's racism. I grew up in a place of only 1 race, so I know how that can affect people and make them conservative. Though, I never once thought myself superior because of my skin color or race. I never tried to impose my culture or beliefs onto others. I never tried to make others respect me the way I think I should be respected through what my society tells me I should expect.

[@Carmen-us1ew]

Same in the USA.

[@garyslayton8340]

​@@RemedieX Styerotypes are bad Period

[@johnjames5842]

Japan is safe , clean, orderly because it's full of basically nothing but Japanese ppl, if you made half the population Venezuelan, or African, it middle eastern, it would not be safe, clean, orderly, and it wouldn't be Japan, that's just reality, protecting your culture from outside influence is normal, it's a good thing, Japan belongs to the Japanese , it's for the Japanese, and nobody else.

[@samuelferrell9257]

As an American it's pretty natural now to see many people of many mixed races and nationalities. Even the "white folk" like myself are usually a Heinz 57 of ethnicity. I myself and Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English on my dad's side and Portuguese with Galician and Austrian, and Norman French on my mom's side... people think I'm half Mexican.

[@user-sc2ml7bd6x]

If he was a Brazilian Japanese they would treat him equally bad.

[@FRISHR]

He’s just a Japanese from the Hidden Cloud village.

[@suhaibsuhaib5947]

😂

[@Agent1W]

Yeah. Don't any of them know Naruto?

[@t0mwayne572]

You know, he does look like he could perfectly cosplay into one and even go well with lightning chakra. If they ever make a live adaptation he should be part of it no questions asked. 👍

[@MinisodaMinnesota]

Girl had no idea she was talking to the 8-tails Jinchuriki

[@GonkyWonkler]

That Japanese Police just get to harass people simply for not fitting the "salary man" appearance is revolting.

[@erraticonteuse]

It's even worse when you remember that they don't have the presumption of innocence in court. People are almost always found guilty because it can incredibly difficult to prove you didn't do something.

[@vatiti9573]

@@erraticonteuseAs far as I understood the whole thing, it's even worse: it's not like they have no presumption of anything, they have (legally) presumption of guiltness. Where presumption of innocence means your guiltness has to be proven and you'll be considered innocent until proven otherwise, presumption of guiltness means your innocence has to be proven and you'll be considered guilty by default. Needless to say, having to prove that you didn't do something is much MUCH harder (and sometimes straight out impossible) than proving you did a thing (being able to prove something that wasn't done was even part of the big topics european philosophers dealt with back in time a few centuries ago).

[@GrimsinMingzhi]

At least they won't magdump you over an acorn😂

[@vatiti9573]

@@GrimsinMingzhiYeah, at least. But their judicial system is almost a travesty of justice. If you're ever put into trial, you're like 99% sure you'll end up in prison, whether you committed the crime or not, so they end up with quite a lot of imprisoned innocents, and japanese attorneys's job is mostly about shortening the prison term as much as they can, for their client has so much chances to end up imprisoned anyway whatever they do. And Japanese prisons are much worse than most prisons in Europe (can't really speak for the U.S.A. on this one, though).

[@straberryshinigami15g97]

One time I got pulled over for biking for not stopping at a stop sign at night , while a Japanese person zoomed on their bike on the wrong side of the road and they didn’t do anything

[@justsomerandom6566]

The main difference between a country that accepts the culture of many different ethnicities, and a country where you must integrate into theirs. Countries with a near homogenous population benefit from a better social and economic system that’s exclusive, whereas the diverse country has to adopt systems that have everyone’s needs in mind and more often than not it leads to poor policy making.

[@lastweasel]

i had a similar experience in Denmark. I'm American, but half Scandinavian ethnically. when i was in Denmark, i was told, "you have a very Danish name. you don't look very Danish."

[@StrunDoNhor]

Experienced something like this once with a friend of mine. He's hafu (half Japanese, half Swedish), and was born & raised in Japan. Japanese is his first language, and he's fully engrossed in Japanese culture. Yet, he was constantly treated like a foreigner. Not in a bad way, mind you; just in that annoying & ignorant, "Oh! Your Japanese is so good!" Kind of way. _Meanwhile, though..._ I ended up getting far more of a pass than him because, well, I'm a full-blooded Native Canadian. If you don't know any better, you could easily mistake me for Mongolian or Siberian (where my distant ancestors came from). Either way, I looked "more Asian" than him, and thus was treated as more of an equal than him. I adore Japan, but I also know that it _can_ be an extremely superficial place.

[@NoelJohnCarlo]

Half-Japanese, Half-Swedish? Kinda reminds me of Lars Alexandersson from Tekken 🤔

[@bigrichie6766]

Lotta idiots in this comment section proving that this is true lmao, so many Japanese people justify their racism with “it’s just culture bro”, people forget that Japans people have a long history of cultural discrimination, I mean bro did people forget they were literally axis powers in ww2? They got that hatred and bigotry in their blood man lmao💀 Crazy how all it took was for them to invent anime for everyone to forget about their bad rep

[@gondar6181]

That’s awesome that you’re native Canadian, preserve it 💪

[@BetterMe981]

​@@gondar6181 well that sounds racist.

[@osasunaitor]

​@@gondar6181 lol how is he supposed to preserve his race exactly?

[@TheTechCguy]

As someone who is half Filipino and half American, I immediately understand where he comes from too on this. Over the years, I’ve gotten loads of comments about me saying I’m not as Filipino or Asian as I actually am. But, then, I tell them about my dad and where his side of the family is from in the world in Asia, and then they’re like, “Oh, ok I get it.”

[@doulaolgamke]

I understand too. I'm 100% mexican but I guess people are more used to seeing mexicans be short and brown with straight hair so I always get accused of not being mexican by other mexicans. Also the shocked looks when they hear me speak Spanish or when they ask my name and I say it how it sounds in spanish. It's surprising because mexicans really come in every size, shape, and color but ignorance exists everywhere.

[@kalliste23]

A lot of the biggest stars in the Filipino entertainment industry are mixed, I don't think being mixed is any kind of handicap in the Phils.

[@stevend8785]

As someone married to a Filipina and with a mixed race 18 year old daughter, you’ll probably never be accepted as Filipino if you aren’t fluent in the language and eat dried fish. I’ve known hundreds of FilAm couples and children, it’s just how it is. Also, the girls seem to do ok. The boys are mostly incels, too short and neotenous features inherited from their Mothers.

[@alphafox9162]

What is 1/2 American?

[@maquelinemyojo3999]

Yeah the fact that AmAsians have to prove their Asianess is bewildering 💀

[@FroschBube]

As a mixed person, I'm against mixing. Don't do it.

[@JonDoeNeace]

I question which came first, Austronesian DNA in the Americas? (Botocudo, Rapa Nui, Coastal Chile) Or the Amerindian DNA in Pacific Islands? They clearly left descendants in both continents and no one can deny this, several Austronesian groups have Amerindian DNA from pre colonial migrations. Native American Pacific Islanders in Rapa Nui have both Amerindian and Austronesian. So there's descendants being left in both regions. My question is, and not for the spammers, was it Amerindians in the Pacific first? Or Austronesians in the Americas? Who made the first move?? The Diné speak of traveling west on boats in pre colonial times and discovering volcanic islands and living there...

[@amarislaurette]

That’s my friend being interviewed! Coolest and most humblest person ever! ❤️ California misses you!!!

[@scroopynoopers9824]

So cool seeing people in the comments that know him. I met him here in Japan a few years back. Small world!

[@ZeroPhilosopher]

probably a degenerate

[@BetterMe981]

That's so funny... I thought he had a California vibe😊

[@momo805]

I grew up with his sister. Wild to see this just pop up on my feed 😄

[@bandelero2139]

Tk!!!!! Haha trippy seeing him pop up on my feed much love from the states!

[@kinman3051]

"Your Japanese blood is thin" Oh yeah? Well your honor is lacking

[@DoritoBot9000]

Their manners certainly are.

[@khajiithadwares2263]

Hokkaidofarm remembers ...

[@JasonLaneZardoz]

Welcome to "diversity"

[@algorithmsavior3820]

*ZUKO WANT TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

[@blade8424]

Zukos too busy bitching about his honor. 😂

[@wr7033]

Im glad Phoebe Buffay is back on her feet since leaving New York and busking for tips. Good for her!

[@jochem420]

the sad thing is in Japan he looks like a foreigner, but in the country of his other parent he probably is looked at as a foreigner too

[@elani]

"The west is racist" people completely ignoring how east Asia is far more racist

[@moelester925]

Yeah sure bud when has east asians ever lynched, genocided other people because of their skin color, unlike america which has a large track record in history guilty of those things.

[@AquaJV]

Why tf would people outside of east Asia be more concerned with the racism in east Asia? 😂

[@thatonespooder1513]

Eh, we’re more violent than them about it.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

@@AquaJV You ain't been on the internet long, have you?

[@ghoulbuster1]

Everyone is racist, you just get jailed about it here.

[@AneesaH.]

This has to be exhausting to hear all the time. He has a good spirit.

[@kryokori]

those kind of things make me happy I'm Polish in here usually (of course, as we know, exceptions exist everywhere) you need to have some Polish ancestry or communicate well to be easily adopted by everyone into our community being Polish is like a state of mind 🤌

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

Tell that to the Jews the Polish were delighted to betray to the Nazis, after which Poles “aryanizsd” their homes, businesses, art, money through Swiss banks that were glad to help.

[@pauldeanda4985]

Actually, to be sincerely honest in my humble opinion, without being sentimental and of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, and without hiding any thoughts in my mind, and/or without lies to the actual truth, with my clear open mind and clean heart, expressing whatever is embedded inside me for a long time which I didn't say because I was nervous. But today, by gathering all the courage and motivation, I just want to say that I actually feel and think that I have absolutely nothing to say about this issue. Thank you! 🤷‍♂️😬🤣

[@airgaborpara3824]

He looks like as a japanese samurai who admire Bob Marley😂

[@obsession9298]

bro he looks homelesss. am i the only one? bruh his braided hair looks so dirty

[@TheMadQueen]

Yeah, it's just you ​@@obsession9298

[@RESURGAM.]

​@@obsession9298 that's kinda rude man. they aren't braids they're dreads, and how do they even look dirty?? what, is it cuz of his grey hair or something?

[@obsession9298]

IDK, but i didn't mean it as an insult. he just looked like glorified homeless man to me.@@RESURGAM.

[@robweasley59]

​@@obsession9298you calling dreads braids gives me genuine secondhand embarrassment

[@thescouts4734]

It happens to me too here in the US... I'm white as snow, bit mixed with Mexican, last name is very much Mexican cause my father, so when people hear it they cock their head sideways in confusion and most times say "you're lying" It's gotten funny at this point cause I learned to not be bothered and to just play with it, but I get this man fully... sometimes people are so deadset that you need to fit a certain bill that they will just call bullshit and demand a form of proof

[@entarr2604]

My wife is blonde hair, blue eyed and doesn't tan, yet is Cherokee Native American. Everyone assumes she's white and doesn't believe her when she shares her heritage. Meanwhile I've got the boring white heritage from Europe, yet I tan dark. Funny how looks can be deceiving

[@thescouts4734]

@entarr2604 exactly!! That's basically what goes down and happens to me, looks aren't the full story, so it amazes me people just say "you're lying"🤣

[@nightmarexgaming120]

Doesn’t even make sense. Mexican isn’t a race, its nationality there are plenty of Mexicans that can trace their lineage to before Mexico was even a thing that are white

[@TKUltra971]

S.Korea is the same way. Here's the twist I learned after staying there for about 6 months total now (on and off visits): they are mostly open to accepting half white mixed race faster than brown or black races. We actually had a driver that when asked a few times said his father was Indian and his mother was from Korea. He looked like a normal Korean dude with a bit of a darker tone. So its more common than TV or the brochures would have you believe i'm fairly sure.

[@szb360]

But much better than Japan At least Korean have open minded than Japan~

[@stryker0331]

Good on them for standing up for their tribe

[@dizasteroid7]

As an Apache who gets mistaken for a Mongolian Chinese I'd say he looks Japanese to me.

[@achtungbaby2009]

more than 5k years ago, native indians origin from east asia..a tribes moved north from china & mongolia region moved to siberia..then split again..1 group move east crossing the bearing straits into north america..then split again to form different tribes of native indians.

[@dizasteroid7]

@@achtungbaby2009 Clovis man is far older than 5k years. Closer to 13k.

[@zer0harts]

...he doesnt, he looks VERY american just because you get mistaken for mongolian??? mongolians look nothing like japanese so...

[@dizasteroid7]

@@zer0harts you don't have a discerning eye for race and your opinion does not dictate reality so its pointless to approach me like im in the wrong and youre in the right. I never said Mongolian looks anything like Japanese. When it rained reading comprehension and social skills you shouldn't have been holding an umbrella.

[@zer0harts]

@@dizasteroid7 so you just resort to calling everyone idiots when they dont agree with you? he doesnt look japanese no matter what way you slice it even with sarcasm how many umbrellas were you holding during class?

[@nathanspaulding7380]

Bro is majestic

[@presimirmikic9016]

Every country is built upon at least exclusiveness if not racism.

[@ThisIsKassia]

He absolutely does look Japanese though 😂

[@_GRiM1]

He has a very japanese face, i wouldn't doubt his name

[@s9209122222]

Why do you lie?

[@g-r-a-e-m-e-]

nobody should question his name!

[@slimetank394]

​@@g-r-a-e-m-e- i mean if i didn't know his name i would ask a question about it

[@g-r-a-e-m-e-]

@@slimetank394 that's fair, but I was responding to his statement that some accused him of adopting a Japanese name, a fake name, which is unreasonable.

[@Treityn.]

He looks completely unlike a Japanese guy

[@RickSlaughter1]

Funny thing is, he looks exactly like the indigenous Japanese, the Ainu. How they forget their own history...

[@emilyk1109]

Considering how the Ainu are perceived and treated by the Yamato population, that's unfortunately not exactly beneficial in terms of less racism, discrimination and more acceptance.

[@masongrainger2271]

Japan invaded Asia because they believed they were the master race. They never apologized for their torture camps, death marches, or forced prostitution from WWII. Thus the attitude of superiority remains unchecked to this day.

[@killsina3271]

@@masongrainger2271 This is bullshit, Japan has a lot of apologies, you should probably look at the rapes of the Soviet Red Army in Eastern Europe and the US government's syphilis experiments on blacks, Pacific Islanders, and nuclear testing. There is almost no apology. The winner is the king.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

​@@masongrainger2271 Yup, the Americans taught them well

[@tonyluiscomedy]

Man im not that kind of mix but I definitely relate to the whole "my people dont even realize they are my people" thing