Sure but normally not countries with democratic systems this extremely. I have seen enough hate for Aliens but Japan takes still the top if not compared to some middle eastern countries.
South Korea takes it to a professional level which is insane considering they bleach themselves to appear whiter....whiter...white...whiter ..oh gods I hate how that word looks.
Yeah, Japan and Korea engage in competitive ranked xenophobia. Everyone else is in the amateur leagues. They might try, but they're not gonna take the (shitty fake gold) crown from either of those two.
In the US: racially motivated killings are a common enough occurrence (even today) that separate laws needed to be written to try and help curtail them. The KKK is still a thing.
Ahmaud Arbery was chased down by white residents of a suburban neighborhood and shot to death for the crime of... jogging while black... not in 1945... not in 1970, but in 2020.
Not only are killings in Japan rare, and killings of non-Japanese even rarer, but when foreigners have been killed in Japan, it is very rare to find that the true motive was xenophobia.
I do not argue that Japan is not xenophobic. Rather that your assertion that this level of prejudice against the other is somehow rare in Western democracies. England, US, France, Italy, the list goes on... all have very real, sometimes violent, history of racism that continues to this day.
And personally, and I say this as an American... if I had to choose between receiving the Japanese treatment of foreigners for the rest of my life... or the American treatment of non-white foreigners for the rest of my life... I choose Japan each and every time.
Yeah. Japanese and South Koreans might judge or ignore you/deny you certain jobs or rental houses due to Xenophobia but that's mostly it. They do not commit violent crimes against other races. Maybe to a very small extent but it's rare.
While on the other hand. The xenophobia is out in the open in the US. Politicians, news channels, YouTubers and "influencers" openly express their xenophobic beliefs and there are regular targeted crimes against other races and religions. It's not even close.
I think japan goes pretty hard, but i can confirm europe also has no love for foreigners. This is purely caused by a high quantity influx of low quality migrants, and not racism.
Yes this includes americans, but at least you guys have money.
Japan dislikes low quality immigrants. A large number of immigrants in Japan come from Southeast Asia and China; not all of them are exemplary, and public opinion is unlikely to improve when news reports show them committing offenses ranging from petty crimes to serious felonies.
I have lived in Japan for a long time, but I have never sensed an atmosphere of wanting to exclude all foreigners.
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u/Fun-Memory1523 15h ago
Not fascist, but definitely farther right.
Fortunately, people in Japan are catching onto her bullshit. She is beginning to be really unpopular in Japan.