Re:Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry
by sdrothrock on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:15AM
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> It's racism, pure and simple.
It is, and I'm convinced it's lasted so long because it's fueled on both sides -- on the Japanese side by nihonjin-ron (the belief that Japanese people MUST have unique things that nobody else has) and on the US side by the lingering effects of the Chrysanthemum and Sword, which started the fetishification of "Japanese exotic-ness."
It is, and I'm convinced it's lasted so long because it's fueled on both sides -- on the Japanese side by nihonjin-ron (the belief that Japanese people MUST have unique things that nobody else has) and on the US side by the lingering effects of the Chrysanthemum and Sword, which started the fetishification of "Japanese exotic-ness."