Racism in the USA

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Why did the USA think that they were so much better than the Japanese people just because that hard and fast rules don't exist.

For instance, Europe and European Americans used wood burning stoves and pots and pans..
The function was similar to what we use today.

During that time, the Japanese used a hibachi.

For several reasons..
First of all their houses must of allowed for the safe use of a hibachi..
Relatively.
Of course cooking in those days was always dangerous.
NEVER use a hibachi in a western house.

And secondly, their diet made the hibachi a practical device, as ALL they ate in those days was meat, fish, fruit and vegetables.

They did not have nearly the variety that we have because of their island situation, political situation in Asia, their own policies..
And lack of global reach.

If I had a similar diet it could mean that I should use a charbroil grill as my primary stove, to put it into perspective.
Lol

Another example of no hard and fast rules existing uniformly..
Is the fact that their religion is Shinto and Zen Buddhism.
Leaving their development of what is good and and bad to themselves and their own emotional state and their own experiences and to the word of their own emperors and Shinto house rules etc..


Obviously they would not like it if their kid was murdered.
But there are no guarantees of how they viewed honor killing within their family or suicide.

There still are no hard and fast rules.

Like ALL humans period, the man made the rules.
How long they kept it depended on their thinking..

And that certainly was also true in the USA.
In fact it has only been about 60 years or so that isn't.

So why did the USA think itself so much better just because Japan was something else besides America or Europe?

Is this a serious question?

Because racism/white supremacy, that’s why.

The European founders of the USA, for the most part, had firmly held beliefs that their whiteness made them racially superior to non-whites. Those beliefs are what helped them conduct a near complete genocide of Indigenous peoples as well as enslave about 10 Million melanated Africans to work their land for free and build their wealth and power.

Fast forward a couple generations and of course many white Americans perceived themselves as superior to non-white Japanese people.

It’s almost as if it’s a learned behaviour passed down generation after generation.. (It is.)

If you want to dig further back, it’s a system of dominance and control for greed and profit that was first officially codified into law by the Spanish in 1449 (so they could make big $ in the slave trade) and then they spread it to the Americas. History lesson here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/h ... tury-spain

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I dont know what the original post is about.
you're upset, and are indicting the USA just because... Americans are baffled by hibachis?

All cultures are "ethnocentric", and tend to assume that their own ways are the best.

European discoverers of Japan thought Japanese culture to be weird, and the Japanese considered Westerner visitors to be weird.

And thats just culture.

Sometimes the tribalism becomes a matter of blood. The Japanese themselve are probably the most racist culture on earth. Even towards fellow East Asians they are more racists than Europeans are towards other Europeans. Koreans living in Japan are not accepted as 'real Japanese' even after generations and centuries (despite the fact that Koreans and Japanese look much alike to us Westerners).

What timeframe are you talking about?

If you're talking about the US occupation of Japan right after WWII- the "explanation" for the racial hatred had a lot to do with the war itself. The governments of both Japan, and the US, stoked up alot of fervor against the other side - against the nationalities themselves as well against the enemy governments. And both Japanese and American peoples were prone to racism anyway.

But post war none of that stopped both countries from adopting each other's cultural ideas. The Japanese play baseball, have democracy, and eat Kentucky Fried chicken. And we read Manga, drive (and even manufacture) Toyotas, and ...use hibachis.

Whats really crazy is that in the FIRST World War American were temporarily gripped by similar racial hatred of the Germans. Crazy because...more than half of American White people ARE German.

Can the OP concisely and precisely outline in 2 sentences what the purpose of this thread is?

All humans are racists and never truly happy unless they are hating or feeling superior to people who are different, or watching others suffer or fail. Humans are trash. Humans need to stop breeding.