January 2012
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Is Japan a “Racist Monoculture”? On Anders...
Interesting blog post from the perspective on a New England expat living in Japan:
As I was leaving the train station, I heard the Japanese national anthem. People were waving flags. Some guy was shouting about “gaikokujin” (“foreigners”) through a loud-speaker. I stopped and stared until a young flag-waving woman raised her bullhorn, looked directly at us and shouted, “GET OUT OF JAPAN!”
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Things you should quit saying:
digatisdi:
delacroix:
“I don’t even see color. It doesn’t matter to me whether you’re white, black, brown, red, yellow, or purple.”
“You’re thinking way too hard about it. It’s just a joke/word/costume/movie/etc!”
“You’re the one talking about race. That makes you the racist one.”
“I refuse to feel guilty for what my ancestors did!”
“I’m not racist; I have a [insert ethnicity]...
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REBLOG IF YOU LOVE THE SEIYUU FANDOM
whatsupwithai:
Let’s see how many ARE US.
I don’t know any of you, but I’m sure you’re all lovely.
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I hate it when (for whatever reason) I’m really into someone’s blog, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, they refer to their boss as a slave driver.
The fact that this has happened more than once really disturbs me.
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HOLY SHIT
“Boldly Going,” actor George Takei Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) - With a career spanning five decades, Takei is known around the world for his role in the acclaimed television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise. Takei, a Japanese American who lived in two U.S. internment camps, including one in...
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Grocery Store Rent-a-Cops can suck it.
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What Charlize Theron Doesn’t Get About Black... →
During Newsweek’s Oscar roundtable, The Help’s Viola Davis tried to speak about the difficulties of being a black actress in Hollywood—but a well-intentioned reply from Theron was just another example of the problem.
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HiroC & OnoD playing with Google Translate. ...
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rooftopsedge:
Chronology by Diane di Prima
I loved you in October when you hid behind your hair and rode your shadow in the corners of the house
and in November you invaded filling the air above my bed with dreams cries for some kind of help on my inner ear
in December I held your hands one afternoon; the light failed it came back on in a dawn on the Scottish coast you singing us ashore
now...
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“All right, just a moment.
That they always take the rope away from me
and cut...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Suicide’s Song (via curiouslycool)
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Anime and the Social Construction of Race
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social constructions. That is, the meaning attached to race, whether ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and so on, and the groups...
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I just bought my girlfriend the most kickass...
Yes. Go me.
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