I watched a Japanese video about the awful classic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie since I was curious about how it was viewed from a Japanese perspective. Disney’s involvement in the movie’s production is mentioned at which point the author jokes that “if today’s Disney was in charge, Mario would probably be made into a black guy”
I love how everyone’s brains are being pickled by the same shitty American culture wars worldwide
The comments were also great
“Toad could work as a black person because his head kind of resembles an afro”
“Italians are already considered a minority in America so they wouldn’t need to change him into a black man”
The best part about learning new languages is being able to read even more racist comments on the internet
Uhh yeah its a generalization. How is it orientalist…?
“Asians are the most racist” is a racist trope used by white people to minimize their own racism. It’s essentially the same thing as Americans trying to mitigate their own racism by pointing out European anti-ziganism.
It’s also reductive and Eurocentric because it assumes that everyone adopts the same view of race that is common in the West, whereas in East Asia most ethnic groups are physically indistinguishable from each other and instead divide more along national and religious lines.
Lmao Asian ethnic groups are absolutely not physically indistinguishable from each other.
Also as a Chinese person… let me tell you… a significant majority of East Asians are racist af. Just like everywhere else.
Well then tell that to the Korean and Japanese people who regularly confuse my Chinese ass as Korean or Japanese. Maybe I just have “one of those faces” but I’ve never seen a convincing and reasonably accurate explanation of how we look physically different between national groups that wasn’t just weird phrenology.
Damn, maybe you should find better friends because I’m sure not hanging around with a majority of racists.
And yeah, some Asians are racist like you said. Some part of every population is racist. But “the most racist” means more racist than the slave trade, segregation, apartheid, the current genocide in Gaza, frequent hate crimes and racially motivated mass shootings. Asian people as a whole aren’t doing any of that shit.
You say that but Japanese chuds still call Koreans ugly online because racists gonna racist
You’re right, racists gonna racist.
“Hey at least I’m not as racist as [group 2]” “Hey at least I’m not as racist as [group 3]” “Hey at least I’m not as racist as [group 1]”
I get the trope, but I wasn’t talking about Asians, I’m talking about Japan specifically.
I didn’t mean to minimize white racism though, my bad.
I didn’t mean to go off at you specifically, sorry if I was harsh.
I hear the “Japanese are more racist” line a lot from Americans and like… Their cops aren’t executing black people in the streets…
Don’t jinx it
hivemind bullshit, redscare, one nation under an emperor, a mass of people with one thought.
try not to generalise, and do not speculate on things you do not have a grounded understanding in, you’re inadvertently contributing to hatred and biogtry.
lmao when was Japan communist? try not to speculate on my comments without understanding them.