Someone Called This Girl’s Japanese Tea Party Racist, But Then This Japanese User Stepped In

My thoughts exactly. It seems to me that sometimes people are just trying to pick a fight, with their claws out and ready to draw blood. :(

So true, I grew up in Japan and I have mostly Japanese decorations in my house. We have pictures of ourselves in Japanese attire and everything. people who havent been exposed to different cultures sure have a way of calling out racism. I never heard the term racism or experienced it when i moved back into the U.S.

The phrase is "virtue signaling" comes to mind. They want to signal to everybody how progressive they are even when they are doing the opposite.

It's SJWs. For all their virtue signalling, they don't see minorities as equals. They see them as pets to protect, even when there's no actual attack. You ever watched one white person sit and talk to another white person about the "black experience" or the "Asian experience"? It's revolting.

Social media is what happened. All people (even those who really should just stay off their soap box) have an easily accessible source to project their opinions and complain about anything and everything for the whole wide world to see.

I'm sure at the party, they also LEARNED about the other culture.

Exactly. Soon they'll call it racist to learn another language... This world vision is made by people who are BORED AS HELL in life, who are addicted to drama, who want to shame others because they can't deal with their own issues, or worse; all of these. Europe and USA has always had a particular attraction for Asian cultures, that's why UK has chai, we had opium, oriental carpets and so on. Sharing (culture) is caring <3

Just more white SJW who feel they have to get offended on the behalf of other races because they don't believe other races know what is best for themselves.

I had to downvote you for use of the word "triggered." That's like saying you were raped when someone accidentally touched your a*s as they brushed past you in a crowd. Don't ever compare people choosing to be offended to people suffering from PTSD panic attacks.

It's also rather ironic that the object of this perceived racism is the Japanese... who, still today, have a massive race/ethnicity/xenophobia element ingrained in their society. When I lived there it ranged as everything from overt ignorant outbursts to subtle racism like "correcting" my behaviour, which I normally wouldn't mind but for the fact they were correcting things I wasn't even doing wrong.

a comment is not 'the world'

We're waking up to a lot of ways where western cultural assimilation has been very negative and continues to ride roughshod

It's not people, it's the hell-site called Tumblr. This is a mindset SOLELY cultivated on that horrible place. I've seen it come and go and it's awful.

Exactly.

Exactly

Keyboard samurai.... :(

ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!! BUT SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN'T HAVE FUN WITHOUT SOMEONE STARTING C**P.

No idea. Btw I love your profile pic!! Nyan pusheen!!

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not the world, just the USA what is Happening the USA, ?, well USA far right propaganda has instilled fear in the USA population for 20 years a portion of that population has bought into this fear and here we have the results. A portion of the USA citizens (Ignorant enough of their position on the continent), having the position that other cultures are threatening them. Ignorance at its best with a hint of paranoia.

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It's not happening to the world,it's happening to the moronic Liberal Democ Rats.

Yes ! I once wore a gypsy skirt for halloween when I was around 10 years old, and when I got to one house the woman gasped, and exclaimed in joy in a foreign language. She was Roma, and just loved my costume! She gave me like five handfuls of candy, versus one piece for my friends, and I got a huge wonderful hug too.

Exactly!

Exactly!

Omg you said the b-word! XD

It's Rom or Romany, not "gypsy." Too many people don't know this yet.

I see your point, and it is fair, but I also understand why people are upset with you calling it a "gypsy" skirt. Unfortunately, the term "gypsy" is an ethnic slur. Wearing a part of Roma culture and then calling it Gypsy, would be sort of equatable to saying you like rap music, but calling it "N-word" music. As with anything, some people in he culture won't have a problem with it, some people will. I think that both opinions should be valid.

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Maybe don't call it a "gypsy" skirt... That's a racial slur. Nobody gets butthurt if you say black. You're such a delicate snowflake I can't believe people like you actually exists in the world freely and aren't institutionalized.

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It is so unfortunate that you would reply to this post without doing your research. It's like you can't even dress your kid up like a dead prostitute and people are all but hurt. Ps kimono wrapped right over left is how we dress our dead for a funeral. Also the chopsticks are displayed like they would be for a funeral as well. Aaaaaaand I could go on and on but sure, teaching how to be offensive and rude in another culture is the same thing as respect right ?

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The word g*psy is a racist slur, just fyi.

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Well not to mention that "gypsy" isn't a race so doubly stupid all the way around. :-P

My thoughts, exactly. People who will call "offensive" at absolutely anything are making people who would otherwise be fighting the same fight actually get angry at and reject those ideas. It's really hard to take a serious issue seriously when it comes from a group that will make a fuss over every little thing.

Precisely! I've been saying that for years, even using the Boy Who Cried Wolf analogy. I'm a bar bouncer; tossed a guy out last week for being a GENUINE racist. Another patron advised me this guy was talking about how the "mud people" were destroying the world and he was using other serious racial slurs, talking about how he loved beating them down when he caught them alone. I told him he needed to leave, he cussed me and got a little aggressive but he left. Wanted to text my fellow bouncers in the neighboring bars to watch out for this guy and not let him in, and I found myself at a loss for words for a concise text. "He's a racist" has been so overused, and overused for the silliest reasons, that it means nothing now. Time was I could just say that and people would understand he's no good. We need a new word for actual hate filled racists, because the word "racist" has been completely neutered.

Maybe it is my local experience BUT - I am assuming a lot of the ones who jumped in on this whole thing were indeed white. I currently live in Oregon where a lot of people think that they are responsible and are the authority of teaching cultural appropriation. I am also an Oakland California native - and I would like to say ... these types have it ALL WRONG.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ramosaline/reverse-racism?utm_term=.aeAMq7QLO#.wa2YJA7Qe