Is this a Racist AD?
Is this a Racist AD?
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- TheBlueOne0
*shrugs* Last time I was in Japan in the little Brazil/Japan section of my wife's city there were plenty of ads of black faced characters that would be considered highly racist in the States. I shrugged. She shrugged.
As people have pointed out there's a different relationship between Japan and Brazil - Brazil has the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan, and the Japanese are highly respected there. Back in Japan it's a mixed bag with that, but it's still different.
And it's a whole different mix of meaning and metaphor than any of the European or American countries that had slavery or a hand in the slave trade...
So in the US, that'd be racist, but in Japan or Brazil? *shrugs*