yeah japan is sometimes part of "the west" but it's not western. i mentioned in another comment that this is perhaps an opposite to the latam situation.
being "western" and 3 bucks will buy you a cup of coffee
it just doesn't matter and I think it's sus to worry about it. the only reason anybody cares about how "western" they are is to position themselves as better than someone else for the purposes of exploiting them. or, maybe to try to assuage bad feelings from being in a low hierarchical rung themselves and excluded from the imperial core. still not a good look.
I'd also argue Japan is more "western" than, say, Colombia in most cultural ways too. Full internalization of Western art, music, and most importantly political and governance structures, which are sort of a superficial veneer in most of Latam.
Individual instances of racism against Koreans and Japanese in western countries aren’t exactly relevant to the positions of power that South Korea and Japan, the countries, hold in relation to the west (or in relation to western issues)
The white bourgeois insistence on 'cultural westernism' or whatever in these countries is just aspiration to the Imperial core that they ain't in
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yeah japan is sometimes part of "the west" but it's not western. i mentioned in another comment that this is perhaps an opposite to the latam situation.
being "western" and 3 bucks will buy you a cup of coffee
it just doesn't matter and I think it's sus to worry about it. the only reason anybody cares about how "western" they are is to position themselves as better than someone else for the purposes of exploiting them. or, maybe to try to assuage bad feelings from being in a low hierarchical rung themselves and excluded from the imperial core. still not a good look.
I'd also argue Japan is more "western" than, say, Colombia in most cultural ways too. Full internalization of Western art, music, and most importantly political and governance structures, which are sort of a superficial veneer in most of Latam.
Remove Japan/Korea and I'd agree
Why lol?
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3228302/japanese-diplomat-attacked-us-woman-anti-asian-hate-crime
https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Japanese-jazz-pianist-plays-on-after-Asian-hate-crime-attack
https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_race-america_hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans-spiked-150-major-us-cities/6202736.html
https://densho.org/catalyst/anti-asian-violence-isnt-un-american-its-a-racist-tradition-that-goes-back-over-150-years/
that's why lol
Individual instances of racism against Koreans and Japanese in western countries aren’t exactly relevant to the positions of power that South Korea and Japan, the countries, hold in relation to the west (or in relation to western issues)
Well of course China's right that they will never be able to become white
What I'm more on about is how if they made a new NATO, Japan and occupied Korea would be in it