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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kital @ Jan 4 2006, 07:59 AM) [snapback]21275[/snapback][/center]
Of my experience there, they don't believe in it. This started as a christian holiday, most Japanese are buddhist.
I said there are exceptions. I didn't generalize.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darein @ Jan 4 2006, 07:59 AM) [snapback]21274[/snapback][/center]
Racism gets known mostly when there is hate (or some form of it) for another race. I don't hate other races, because of how I was raised, I treat anyother person fairly. In other words, I apply the eye for an eye. I treat others as they treat me, regardless of race, nationality, sex, yadda, yadda.
People from Japan think santa is from Denmark or Finnland (cant remember)
They wont acknowledge he might live elsewhere (NORTH POLE?)
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Of my experience there, they don't believe in it. This started as a christian holiday, most Japanese are buddhist.
You mean like your comment about Japanese nationalism? Sometimes generalization, while still general and don't pinpoint every single person of that culture, is more right than wrong. Is every person going to be exactly the same way? No but if you have a culturally crafted habits, then playing the % game you stand a better chance of being right.
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I said there are exceptions. I didn't generalize.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darein @ Jan 4 2006, 07:59 AM) [snapback]21274[/snapback][/center]
Pretty much the fact that we are talking about how another race behaves encourages stereotyping.
It's like this idea I keep mentioning how if you even realize that racism exists, that means you're already racist yourself (although to a lesser degree than most people think of the term "racist" as meaning) because you can't know racism exists without recognizing that there *are* other races - which means at the very least you think they are different.
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Racism gets known mostly when there is hate (or some form of it) for another race. I don't hate other races, because of how I was raised, I treat anyother person fairly. In other words, I apply the eye for an eye. I treat others as they treat me, regardless of race, nationality, sex, yadda, yadda.
