Comment by gcau
11 hours ago
> When filming in the street, for example, for a street interview, TV typically blurs the faces of Japanese-looking people passing by (except for foreigners). While in the West people have no respect to other people,
Am I missing something or is this just plain racism? There are lots of japanese people who don't look japanese, foreigners who are permanent residents, and japanese-looking people that aren't japanese - how is it respectful to protect just a certain ethnic groups privacy?
It's not racist. It's all about the intention; as a company, you don't want to expend a single extra dime to comply with the regulations. since the population is pretty much homogeneous you can just blur out the Japanese and you are pretty much guaranteed to cover 99% of the cases.
Business don't exist to respect or care about people they exist to generate profit so the idea of a business "respecting" something is not even realistic.
The law is what outlines what are the limits and guarantees the basics rights to everyone.
So, people are being treated differently entirely on the basis of their race - but it's not racist because they're lazily cutting corners in following a regulation? If they actually cared why would they not just blur all faces instead of looking at their race to decide whether or not to do it?
> Business don't exist to respect or care about people they exist to generate profit so the idea of a business "respecting" something is not even realistic.
People work at businesses, and those people make decisions that are influenced by their personal feelings. In a free market people will boycott them for doing bad things. Racist businesses being outted, receiving bad press and losing revenue - in this scenario it sounds like the japanese are okay with it. Being respectful is profitable.
It's easy: if you don't look Japanese, then you are not Japanese. A paper signed by someone in the government doesn’t make you Japanese.
Ok, so you're agreeing that it is "plain racism".
> A paper signed by someone in the government doesn’t make you Japanese.
You claim that the government of Japan does not have the power to bestow citizenship on individuals?
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And what about visitors to the country? Do visitors get treated with more respect than strangers? In foreign cultures, they do. So this analogy doesn’t follow through.
Foreigners don't blur faces so their faces also don't get blurred. Fair.
I'd guess so judging by the downvotes.
It should be edited to avoid snarkiness.
Yes. The West likes flagellating itself for being racist, but in [current year] the rest of the world is invariably much more racist.
I try not to litter. I even pick up litter when I see it. Does the existence of serial rapists mean I shouldn't bother? Should we never worry about moderating our own behavior if anyone else out there is worse?