Japanese privilege

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Japanese privilege is a kind of racial, cultural, and social privilege, which means that Japanese people are given social benefits and superiority over non-Japanese people. Japan has historically been the only colonial imperialist country in Asia, it is one factor that led to Japanese privilege similar to white privilege.

In Japanese society

Japanese scholars analyzed that there is a Japanese privilege similar to white privilege. Currently, Japanese privilege is closely related to discrimination against Zainichi Koreans, Okinawans, and Burakumin in Japan's society.

Outside of Japan

China

Japan was once an imperialist country similar to other Western countries such as France and Britain, and the Japanese have enjoyed privileges as a people of colonial rulers in many regions. During the Japanese Empire, the Japanese extracted many privileges in China.

South Africa

During the apartheid in South Africa, many non-white people, including South Asians, faced institutional racism. Because of economic and political necessities, Chinese and Japanese were classified as "Honorary Whites" and exempted from apartheid laws.

South Korea

South Korean experts point out that Japanese are rarely subjected to racial discrimination, unlike non-Korean Asians living in other South Korea. Unlike Japanese, who are considered similar to whites in South Korea, other Asians, including Chinese, are much more racial discriminated against in South Korea. Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945. Professor Yuji Hosaka said, "In South Korea, anti-Japanese sentiment is usually expressed only for Japan, the government, and Japanese historical revisionism, but it is not expressed against Japanese people in daily life". Yuji Hosaka is a non-Korean race Japanese-born naturalized South Korean. According to the Hankyoreh, the Japanese have been treated as white over Asians in many regions (including South Korea) and have long had a sense of ethnic superiority over Chinese and Koreans.

Some South Koreans point out that Japan's 'Hate of [South] Korean" and Korea's "anti-Japanese" (反日, 반일) are not the same. Anti-Japanese activities in South Korea come from Japan's failure to properly apologize and compensate for colonialism and violence committed in the past, but "Hate of [South] Korean" (嫌韓, 혐한) in Japan from blatant discrimination, hatred, contempt, and racial hierarchy. In South Korea, "Hate of Japanese" rarely exists.

See also

• Imperialism
• Japanese nationalism
• Racism in Japan

References

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