I just wanted to make one point and then bop back out because I don't really want to dip my toes into this whole thing, clearly there's some build up here.

When a white dude goes to Japan, he will get discriminated against in a way that is a similar construct to what we would call racism in America, I'll grant you. But I don't think it's good to call that racism. Look at it this way. Classes go beyond just the bourgeois and the proletariat. Women are a class. Men too. There are different classes of people of color, in different towns and cities and states. Racism in European and American society is specifically that prejudice against the descendents of the captive Black nation that settlers built here, as well as the broader way that American capitalism developed national identity and ethnicity into a large hierarchy that was much more complex than the skin color metric that we think about today. A white guy in Japan is going to experience a fundamentally different social construct because Japan developed differently, had different material conditions.

Food for thought: is it racist when people in rural Africa are fascinated by random white travelers? Probably not, considering that there isn't really a degree of violence associated with this othering at all. And racism connotes a deeply unpleasant kind of class animosity and dehumanization. What about the opposite, an African person being harangued in say Europe, in let's say a similar manner? I would argue there's a difference there and that different is different material development and cultural histories.