| mai said: - Education in PRC is as much of an anti-Japanese as you're, say, anti-Chinese, i.e. not so much, just a lot of prejudice. - Even if it's anti-Japanese as you say, I doubt they consider Japanese a racial defective people. It's hardly a racism. - For nitpicking purposes. People stop calling every expression of intolerance a racism. Chinese and Japanese are of the same race more or less. |
Err... I know a fair amount about what goes on in the mainland. My girlfriend is from there, as are several of my close friends (which really blows up your point about me being anti-Chinese), and probably 40% of my work colleagues (90% of the rest of my colleagues are from Hong Kong, so they have close mainland relatives). I know what gets taught in PRC schools, I know what sort of shit gets sanctioned to air on PRC TV.
Racism doesn't have to mean they believe that they believe the other race to be "defective", it just means they have to hate based on their race. When you hear shit like "I wish all those Japanese would die" on a fairly regular basis, you know that there is at least some racism in the culture.
Finally, I think you'd find that most Chinese will easily be able to determine the difference between Chinese and Japanese. Hell, it's even possible to distinguish between Hong Kongers and mainlanders, a fair percentage of the time. They might look "more or less" the same to you, but where I see hundreds of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean men and women everyday, you learn to pick the differences. Some genetic, some cultural.
For you, or whatever definition you use, that not be enough to distinguish between race, but for the vast majority of people, that intolerance is enough to be racist. I always find it somewhat odd when people try to enforce other definitions of words, especially when a significant size of the population use it to mean something else.
