my opinion to the article "Japanese TV show featuring blackface actor sparks anger" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42561815 My conclusion is that black face should NOT be a racist expression. As

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my opinion to the article "Japanese TV show featuring blackface actor sparks anger" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42561815 My conclusion is that black face should NOT be a racist expression. As you know, white people have the history that they had treated black people as slaves and the history that black face is used as a racist expression, so I can understand black face is a taboo in many countries. But the common sense about black face as a racist expression in those countries is not likely to exist here. Of course, black face has been also used negatively sometimes before in Japan. But on the other hand, it has been used respectfully too. What it all comes down to is that black face is colorless here. (It might be a weird expression, though.) To associate black face with racism is artificial. It looks like the arbitrariness of language explained by de Saussure. There is no apparent reason between black face and racism. Only the people who were taught it point it out. Baye McNeil, who drew attention to the show and insisted on stopping it on Twitter, seemed not to have tried to understand the context how it was dealed in the TV program. That's why he couldn't help showing his shallow idea that "it is definitely problematic regardless of whether the people doing it have racist motives or not" as his excuse after some criticism against him came up. Similar things like this TV program will still happen in Japan from now on. I'd like to ask you if educating "black face = racism" can be a fundamental solution method or orient people the better direction. It's difficult for me to agree with it. I wonder if to build the world where you can blackface for the expression to respect a black person or a black person can whiteface to love a white person and really want to be is healthier. Having said that, I don't think that the people who have carried on the tradition "harmony first" for more than 1.4 thousand years can ignore the attention. Some Japanese tell it to the others who don't know it. So it's too extreme to smugly say that Japan is a savage country or a developing country in human rights, isn't it? Japan just doesn't have the history of treating black people as slaves and enjoys black culture.

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My opinion on the article "Japanese TV show featuring blackface actor sparks anger"

My conclusion is that the actor who painted his face black should NOT be considered racist.
As you know, white people have a history of treating black people as slaves and there is a history that black faces were used as an expression of racism, so I can understand why non-black people painting their faces black is a taboo in many countries. But the common sense attitude that painted black faces are an expression of racism in those countries is not likely to exist here.
Of course, black faces have also been used negatively sometimes before in Japan. But on the other hand, they have been used respectfully too. What it all comes down to is that black faces are colorless here. (It might be a weird expression, though.)
To associate black faces with racism is artificial. It looks like the arbitrariness of language explained by de Saussure. There is no obvious link between painted black faces and racism. Only the people who have been taught this point it out.
Baye McNeil, who drew attention to the show and insisted on stopping it on Twitter, seemed not to have tried to understand the context in which it was dealt with by the TV program. That's why he had to defend his idea with the shallow excuse that "it is definitely problematic regardless of whether the people doing it have racist motives or not" as his excuse after he received some criticism.

Similar things like this TV program will still happen in Japan from now on. I'd like to ask you if educating people that "painting one's face black = racism" can really help fundamental solution method chan. change attitudes for the better? It's difficult for me to agree with. it. I wonder if building a world where you can paint your face black to express respect for a black person or a black person can paint his/her face white to show love for a white person might actually be healthier.
Having said that, I don't think that the people who have carried on the tradition of "harmony first" for more than 1400 years can ignore bad publicity. Some Japanese tell others who don't know about this. So it's too extreme to smugly say that Japan is a savage country or a developing country in human rights, isn't it? Japan just doesn't have the history of treating black people as slaves and enjoys black culture.

PS - I was just pointing out issues with, both the (in my opinion dumbass) equation and your (unrealistically categorical) argument.

Assuming 'black-face,' then, your superficiality argument is also ironically weak, for very different reasons, however. You seem to be presuming for Japanese 'culture' (any culture?) an arbitrary/free choice of filters w.r.t. to (what Husserl and his students, including Heidegger and Sartre called) 'facticity.' I'm sure you can see the problem if you would try to transfer your argument to any foreign culture context in which Japan (Japanese culture) involved itself, say, from the 1920s until 1945. "If you don't know, now you know, nigga."

Ironically from a semiotic point of view, your complaint against the equation "black face = racisim" is technically wrong while virtually proving its rightness at the same time! That is, one would hope the author of the quote, assuming your rendition is accurate, meant 'black-face' not 'black face.'

This seems to come from the same root. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45476500?ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews It's not the question of sexism or racism but she's just rude. I would say don't make it big.

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