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I'm really wondering if people actually read the posts here. You obviously don't. If was said several times that the term brown would only apply to those who have a brown skin color, not to those who are black or white.
Obviously the one that is not reading is you, I was replying back to anunidentifiedmale, not the entire thread, about his comment.....
Obviously the one that is not reading is you, I was replying back to anunidentifiedmale, not the entire thread, about his comment.....
If you had read the thread, you would have noticed that it ( his comment - by me, for instance. ) was explained several times. So, no, it's you who did not read it.
Well, extremist groups are passing laws through the government of France, so they can't be that extremist.
Technically that's true in Japan, but it's such a homogenous culture that it's very hard to ever assimilate culturally. Trust me.
When extremism is a part of the government, it doesn't come as a surprise that they can push through their agenda. The problem with such religion based laws is that the two extremes can actually get on one side.
A country with homogenous culture has helped itself by not segregating the very few that aren't a part of that definition. They could have easily done it, the way it has been taken towards another extreme in Singapore.
You will find extremist groups in ANY country that will push for their agenda. But that doesn't take away anything from the fact that in France, racial profiling is not a part of the census, and in Japan, one is a Japanese the moment they are a citizen. Their nationality (origin) does not matter going forward.
Not really. First of all, very, very few people (gaijin) who want to become Japanese are granted citizenship, and those few who do get it are still, for all intents and purposes, gaijin.
Perhaps it is time for Americans to grow up and recognize that the people of the United States are Americans, not Hispanic/Latino, Asian, European, African... the way they do it in Japan and France. Once you're a citizen, you're an... AMERICAN.
For once I'm in 100% agreement with you.
It's one thing for people to hang on to their ethnic ancestry but the government needs to drop it.
A citizen is a citizen. And in the eyes of the government that should be the end of it.
But, doesnt Hispanic mean "from a country that speaks Spanish" ?? what has that have to do with ethnicity, skin colour etc??
I think a big part of Americans confuse the term "hispanic" with some racial type, and it has nothing to do with that.
Example: an Argentinian person its percieved as "Hispanic" (wich is correct) when its in USA, but since Hispanic means "brown" there, then people gets confused when they see argentinians (a 90% white country) that arent brown or dark skinned. When i lived in the US they told me "how come you are hispanic and you are white?" They couldnt believe it when i told them than in Argentina most of the people is white/caucasian .
So, yeah, Fujimori is Hispanic, of course, and his race, wich is a different thing, must be asian from what i can see in the pictures.
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what has that have to do with ethnicity, skin colour etc?? 
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