It's just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners 
Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude
It's just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners
Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude
When people drop the noun meant to follow the adjective they are almost always telling on themselves about something, in this case racism
What? This is the stupidest shit ever lol. How is this racist? If referring to someone as “an American” or “a Kenyan” or “a French” is not racist, why would saying “a Japanese” be any different? Japanese is literally the noun and adjective depending on how you want to use it just like any other demonym
It’s not inherently rascist, I should have took more care in my phrasing.
What I meant was: people who who drop the person or personhood identifier in favor of national/racial/other sorts of identifiers are often those who engage in broad strokes judgements based on origin.
A key part of English, at least based on my understanding of it, is the clear delineation between person and non-person. Removing that reference to personhood by simply using an adjective of origin is closer to calling them an “it” than otherwise.
That’s just my read on the topic though, I’m welcome to hearing otherwise because this could be an interesting convo.
it also just depends on the word for some reason, english is very vibes based and inconsistent in its rules and connotations.
sounds decently normal
seems fine
commonly said
This sounds weird and bad. Couldn't tell you why but it just sounds racist compared to the other ones.
I think any -ese demonym can't be turned into a noun without sounding off.
That feels like the correct take
Yeah, turns out the lingual patterns my grampa used to refer to Chinese and Japanese people is not great, in 2024.
edit: To be clear, he used different slurs, he wasn't so racist as to use the same slur for Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laoceans, and island people.
Seconded. "My black friend" is what racists say instead of "my friend"
That guy shouldn't have said that but I see plenty of Japanese people who are fairly fluent in English say things like "As a Japanese" or "I am a Japanese and I..." It appears in quite a few youtube comments and other social media comments from what I've seen. They'll also say it out loud in interviews and stuff.
It's technically correct as a noun for a Japanese person, like "a German" or "an Italian." It just sounds weirdly antiquated and kinda racist in modern day.
What's racist about it though? Like isn't just because most people that would say "I met a japanese" are the same people who use the words "a female" when they talk about women? Is there anything actually racist in the phrasing itself, that makes it different from referring to other nationalities?
Like someone else said, the vibes are just off in a way I can't quite articulate.
"A German" sounds okay but "a Japanese" or "a Chinese" just don't without a "person" or some other word after them
Oh well that's easy. That's because the chinese are people, while the germans aren't