Wie sich Japans zunehmender Nativismus auf die Zainichi-koreanische Bevölkerung des Landes auswirkt: Yu Miri gewann den Akutagawa-Preis, Japans höchste literarische Auszeichnung, und ihr Roman „Tokyo Ueno Station“ gewann den US National Book Award. Kritiker sagen jedoch, dass sie aufgrund ihrer koreanischen Abstammung nicht dazu in der Lage sei, sich zur japanischen Politik zu äußern.
Award-Winning Author Yu Miri Harassed Online After Criticizing Japanese Government
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What Korean heritage? Her ancestors‘ home country was Japan in the 30s, surely she is as Japanese as they are
In that case Japanese cannot talk about Japanese politics due to their Chinese heritage
Do Japanese in Korea talk about Korean politics? Or are they not accepted for not being Korean.
Japanese right-wingers are an interesting bunch.
There was this interesting study (forgot the title) that asked Japanese people to determine whether: a) 中国残留日本人 (people of Japanese heritage who were orphaned in present China during World War II, raised by Chinese families and cannot speak Japanese); b) Zainichi Korean – are considered Japanese or not.
The answer may surprise: most Japanese think that the former are Japanese, but not the latter.
I am not Japanese.
I do not care to commenting on Japanese politics because i am not an expert.
BUT if i wanted to, i feel i had all the rights because i pay taxes! A lot!
In a civilized country works like that.
Lol, aren’t modern Japanese people descended, at least in part, from people from the Korean Peninsula and China?
So are world politicians also not allowed to talk about Japanese politics?
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Japanese don’t even talk about their own politics **unless** it’s related to disparaging foreigners.
Idiots gonna idiot
Japanese people conflate nationality far too much with ethnicity and I think that’s Japans big weakness when it comes to Japanese vs non-Japanese and I think the developed world has ignored that to an extent that causes division. Look at the UK, everyone can be British, or course they can, but when it comes down to who can be English/Scottish/Welsh it gets muddled.
I think there isn’t any harm in trying to safeguard ethnicities but it needs to be clearly defined as separate from nationality in the modern day.
Insane actual 0 IQ take. So anyone with Chinese ancestry from centuries or millenia ago suddenly doesn’t have the right to talk about their home country’s (i.e., Japan’s) politics now as well?
It’s a tragedy. the institutional racism in japan meets a de-politicized and defeated, compliant population that do what they are told.
The line that gets me is „critics say her Korean heritage disqualifies her“ like there’s a panel checking your family tree before you’re allowed to have an opinion about the country you live in.