Your friends tried to tatemae you and failed. Excellent. And they should really know better. I hope straight up told them not to lie.
Japanese friends: The Japanese language has no racial slurs. Me: Really? Japanese friends: Yes, really. They don't exist. Me: How about [word I learned from online forums]? Japanese friends: NO DON'T SAY THAT WORD, DON'T EVER SAY THAT WORD
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They were trying to do the right thing, I'm just too bad of a human being for it to work
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How? By pretending nasty slurs I've literally heard used against visual minority children don't exist? No, that's not the right thing. That's just a lie.
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I read somewhere recently that Japanese baseball's in the USA love all the swearing in the dugout etc. What's the deal with that?
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Swearing often sounds funny and inoffensive in languages you're not native to.
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They don’t have racial slurs because they’re so racially homogenous, right?
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Why the denial?
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Tatemae, conflict avoidance
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Americans call it "PC"
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NO DON'T SAY THAT DON'T EVER SAY THAT
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i’m here to tell you not to listen to your Japanese “friends” and to say those words all the time
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Just talk to any drunk man between the ages of 40-70 about Korea
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Just talk to any drunk man between the ages of 40-70 about anything, racism will be an inevitability.
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They're also a common beleif that Japan is classless. Ideology isn't just people being goofy / ignorant
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Like a fish they do not know they're in water
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also me when my kids come home from school
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I showed this to my wife, who lived in Japan for 15 months--much of it speaking Japanese exclusively. She declared it to be the most true tweet she had seen today.
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