The person I’m currently seeing is kind and a good person, but every now and then, he makes racist comments during our conversations.
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For example, the Japan Series is going on right now, and he’ll say things like, “Some of the Orix players are half-Filipino or half-Guinean,” or, “Black people are naturally good at sports, so there are many mixed-race Japanese athletes who do well in track and field or basketball.”
I believe no one can choose their parents’ nationality, and there’s nothing wrong with being mixed-race. I also think that people like that may have been bullied or experienced other painful things when they were children.
There’s also a player, D, who is doing well in Major League Baseball. Because his father was Iranian, he was bullied in middle school and was on the verge of becoming a delinquent in high school. A teacher told him, “Think carefully about how hard your father worked to raise you.” He reflected on that and devoted himself to baseball.
What do you think of people who make racist comments?
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You can find plenty of polished, idealistic answers online, so I’ll leave those for you to read. Speaking realistically, though, I think many Japanese people talk about these things from a place of simply “not knowing,” since they’re often surrounded by nothing but other Japanese people.
You’ll understand once you actually date someone from another country. For example, if their eye color is different, it may not feel like you’re making eye contact. Or you might walk into a room with a Black woman, turn off the lights first, and momentarily lose sight of her. Then there’s the classic issue of body odor, which can lead to discovering perfume culture and the whole idea of combining scents.
Apparently, even at Universe, offers to Black women are overwhelmingly rare.
If we divide people into three stages—avoiding someone because they feel unfamiliar, explicitly attacking them through their attitude or words, and accepting diversity—Japan has overwhelmingly more people at the first stage. So rather than saying things that sound like they’re coming from someone at the third stage when you don’t really understand, it would be faster to simply stick to “Even if you think it, don’t say it.” In other words, just cover up anything unpleasant—you know, not body odor.
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Rather than racism, I think it’s true that some people grow up highly conscious of having an appearance or living environment that isn’t considered “ordinary.”
I felt it would be better to interpret this comment not as racism, but as recognizing someone who inherited genes different from those of a person of purely Japanese ancestry and has worked exceptionally hard—overcoming those characteristics and circumstances in a way everyone can acknowledge.
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I feel like the papa was just stating facts and wasn’t being discriminatory.
He was actually complimenting Black people by saying they’re especially good at sports, and wasn’t he also complimenting you by saying you can excel at basketball because you’re mixed-race?
I feel like you may be taking it a little too sensitively...
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I got the impression that the person asking the question may have some discriminatory thinking underlying their interpretation of this as racism in this context.
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Some Orix players are half-Filipino or half-Guinean.
I don’t see these two points as racist remarks.
He’s simply describing characteristics that papa (a male supporter) feels—such as Black people being naturally good at sports.
It would be different if he were saying that being mixed-race was a bad thing, though.
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