Japan is one of my favorite places as well. Certainly I don't look like anyone else there, nor do I have the expectation to be in "safe spaces" with a bunch of people who vaguely share my skin tone. Maybe I'm younger, but it seems like a lot of people in their feelings on things but their day-to-day experience is actually quite pleasant.…
Japan is one of my favorite places as well. Certainly I don't look like anyone else there, nor do I have the expectation to be in "safe spaces" with a bunch of people who vaguely share my skin tone. Maybe I'm younger, but it seems like a lot of people in their feelings on things but their day-to-day experience is actually quite pleasant. Not enough advertisements with black people? Or "latin" people? Or "white" people (have heard this complaint more recently)? I don't know, don't keep track, and don't care personally. It's at a point of silliness in this country.
"Maybe I'm younger, but it seems like a lot of people in their feelings on things but their day-to-day experience is actually quite pleasant."
Yep, I think it's partly a generational thing, but some people just love having something to say, "poor me" about. For older people, I do understand that a lack of representation was an issue. With society being a lot more racist in the 70s, say, Melody probably saw very few positive representations black people if the people around her didn't provide those role models.
But that's far from the case today. And with society being much *less* racist, I think it makes much less sense to focus on "people who look like me."
Japan is one of my favorite places as well. Certainly I don't look like anyone else there, nor do I have the expectation to be in "safe spaces" with a bunch of people who vaguely share my skin tone. Maybe I'm younger, but it seems like a lot of people in their feelings on things but their day-to-day experience is actually quite pleasant. Not enough advertisements with black people? Or "latin" people? Or "white" people (have heard this complaint more recently)? I don't know, don't keep track, and don't care personally. It's at a point of silliness in this country.
"Maybe I'm younger, but it seems like a lot of people in their feelings on things but their day-to-day experience is actually quite pleasant."
Yep, I think it's partly a generational thing, but some people just love having something to say, "poor me" about. For older people, I do understand that a lack of representation was an issue. With society being a lot more racist in the 70s, say, Melody probably saw very few positive representations black people if the people around her didn't provide those role models.
But that's far from the case today. And with society being much *less* racist, I think it makes much less sense to focus on "people who look like me."