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Existentialist  ·  3590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Japanese pop star wins the right to have a boyfriend in landmark court ruling

    I also love how they are allowed to be more xenophobic than pretty much anybody who isn't approaching peak-skinhead, and nobody says a word about it. (In context of 'global refugee crisis' that is.)

I think it extends beyond that. All the Japanese people I know are a bit racist; To the extent that they make immediate assumptions about people in regard to ethnicity, especially about black and Chinese people. But I also feel they realise they are making blanket assumptions that don't apply to everyone.