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Japanese attitude towards Irish?
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Whether or not an Irish person will experience racism in Japan depends very much on one key question - what is racism?
If you subscribe to the Debito Arudou (see above post) line of thinking, then racism is viewing a person as in any way different because they have a racial profile that is different to your own. Debito is US-born but has naturalised as a Japanese. Therefore he expects to be treated as a Japanese in every way. A noble and morally defensible idea. He works very hard to shine a light on any incident which runs counter to this idea and to hold the Japanese government to international standards of human rights, etc. But it's also idealistic and so his newspaper and blog articles tend to divide people into those that strongly support him and those that hate him. Check out his recent writing about "microaggression" for a perfect example.
The other line of thinking is that if you're a caucasian, black, non-Japanese Asian, whatever, then you're visibly not a native Japanese (though the increasing number of international marriages and bi-racial kids has really started to blur the lines) and therefore will always be seen as an "outsider." And then it's down to whether you're a "glass half full" person or a "glass half empty" person. Do you enjoy the fact that you can get away with things a Japanese wouldn't, always standing out from the crowd, etc? Or do you feel constantly threatened, looked down upon, excluded? There are of course many shades of grey between the two extremes.
I suppose my main point is that racism in Japan is a very subjective thing and (relative to other countries) rarely a dangerous, violent encounter but more of a subtle, cultural experience. You know the adage, "Wherever you go, there you are"? I take it to mean that no matter what country you visit you bring your own emotional baggage with you. So Japan will be different for every single person, because its seen through their own personal filter.
I'm writing this in a hurry and it hasn't been properly thought out, so pardon any flawed thinking
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My wife (before coming to Ireland) often confused Ireland with Iceland. There's plenty of Irish pubs in Tokyo and other big cities, so they do have some idea of us
We were on a small island, a distance from Okinawa and when I told this fellow I was from Dublin, he said "ah; Easter 1916, the GPO, Oscar Wilde, Trinity College etc". I was impressed!0 -
My wife (before coming to Ireland) often confused Ireland with Iceland. There's plenty of Irish pubs in Tokyo and other big cities, so they do have some idea of us
We were on a small island, a distance from Okinawa and when I told this fellow I was from Dublin, he said "ah; Easter 1916, the GPO, Oscar Wilde, Trinity College etc". I was impressed!
Confused OR lack of general knowledge ? The World cup hosted by and between Japan & Korea in 2002 Japanese officials were bewildered by English football fans sporting the George cross painted on their faces and producing British passports at immigration . The first batch off the planes were all held on suspicion of having false passports . The reason ? Football fans should have the union jack painted on their face .0 -
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shindig-jp wrote: »Confused OR lack of general knowledge ? The World cup hosted by and between Japan & Korea in 2002 Japanese officials were bewildered by English football fans sporting the George cross painted on their faces and producing British passports at immigration . The first batch off the planes were all held on suspicion of having false passports . The reason ? Football fans should have the union jack painted on their face .
Possibly lack of knowledge? I know when she went to school, Japanese kids would not have been taught about Ireland. But she eventually travelled around the world before coming to Ireland for a few years. One of our friends in Tokyo was well aware of Ireland - because of the Guinness. Herself and the wife visited about 8 pubs in 2 days to sample the black stuff, a year or two back 0 -
Possibly lack of knowledge? I know when she went to school, Japanese kids would not have been taught about Ireland. But she eventually travelled around the world before coming to Ireland for a few years. One of our friends in Tokyo was well aware of Ireland - because of the Guinness. Herself and the wife visited about 8 pubs in 2 days to sample the black stuff, a year or two back
Not to worry , many of my extended family ,the younger ones and some of the adults often ask when we meet up for a pint . "How long are you home for and when are you going back to China" About two weeks ago I was asked to say something in Chinese . I did ....... "Who Flung Dung" and the response was " yeah we know that one .. isn't he the Emperor .0 -
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