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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by philwelch on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:15AM (#6580134)
It's hard to disassociate the word "Jap" from World War II racist propaganda.

http://img.moonbuggy.org/superman-says-you-can-slap-a-jap/

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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by ivix on Sunday October 20, 2013 @01:22PM (#6580582)
That's not racism, that's politics. Would you say British anti German morale posters are racist?
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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by philwelch on Sunday October 20, 2013 @01:50PM (#6580713)
Did British anti-German propaganda posters have racist caricatures of German people?
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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by jessaustin on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:49PM (#6587773)
There were caricatures, but asking whether they were racist is rather begging the question.
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Re:Have young people in Japan stopped having sex? by philwelch on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:49AM (#6589848)
Credit for using "begging the question" properly, but let me clarify. Propaganda against the Germans was either aimed squarely at Hitler himself or at more abstract representations that didn't emphasize the frankly non-existent physical differences between Germans and Americans. Germans were portrayed with swastikas and Prussian helmets and jackboots; Japanese were portrayed with buck teeth, yellow skin, glasses and slanted eyes.
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