The USA Sucks

Agreed.

Japan, China, and Korea hate each other so much, going back thousands of years, that just a few years ago, a bunch of Korean students cut off their fingers and threw them at the Japanese embassy just because the Prime Minister visited a shrine honoring Japanese war dead.

And this was considered not particularly out of the ordinary.

In general, most Japanese are very positive on Americans, with the possible exception of Americans on the internet. The US has developed this online culture of extreme dickishness and self-aggrandizement "for teh lulz" that is completely incompatible with Japanese culture.

Psychology would beg to differ. My point is that there is a difference between racism and being more comfortable around those most like you.
Hitler is a good example of a racist being.
Simply being more comfortable around your own people isn't being racist towards everyone else.

it's still pretty damn racist, and that's just wrong.

@ Roxanna just like in WWII a group of Okinawans threw themselves off a cliff because they were brainwashed to believe that the Americans were going to murder the men, rape the women, and leave the children to watch. So instead they /jumped.

I think people missed my point ours is more on display because anything is news worthy in America whereas in other countries it is not.

Lol yeah pretty much every Korean that really embraces there korean heritage will litterally go from thinking all right of me to hating me alot when they find out I'm part japanese

it's fine to feel more comftruble around someone you can relate to, but does it also excuse the fact that you can be racial against people you don't relate to? not really, it's just ignorance IMO and angst.

so don't get them both mixed up.

Mass brainwashing, and mass racism happened. And I agree with you about America being more on display.

and @ the OP: If the USA sucks so much, leave.

100% true. A few years back my dad got injured on the job. He shattered his ankle, no insurance or workmans comp. Sure the Hospital fixed him up...then said "you owe us six thousand dollars" and I may be low balling that number. Also if you don't pay it, they drag you to court and then you have to pay for all their court fee's and your own. That's not even including and medication costs or return visits.

Another example of a broken health care system. My last job I had, if I wanted insurance through the company it would of cost me 200 dollars a month. I was already paying 340 dollars a month for child support. I was making 10 dollars an hour and rarely getting 40 hours a week. Usually I was lucky to get 30 hours. See the problem here? This is all before normal taxes mind you. To have health insurance I would not only be working for free, the job would of ended up costing me money. It eventually did anyways which is why I had to quit.

America news media tends to make everything out to be a bigger deal then it really is.

I know what WWII was, doesn't take away from the fact that is a much larger display of racism then things America has done (an argument could be made for slavery, but slavery was around way before USA and just as bad)

Every country in the world is racist, and it is human nature. Every one is Prejudice, if you can't admit that, then you are just lying to your self.

Completely untrue.

Most were pushed by the Japanese military, which had a scorched-earth policy that if Japan couldn't have the island, then nobody could. Their own people be damned.

The US seems to have this bizarre take on WW2 that everyone in Japan was a banzai-shouting Emperor-loving psychopath. Most were just ordinary folks trying to get by. Not even most of the kamikaze pilots were volunteers.

everyone is racist/prejudiced to some extent.
saying that you aren't is just flat out wrong :/
why would you make vast generalizations about a country if you weren't in fact a little bit racist yourself?

I agree on last paragraph, also for first paragraph; they also have a pretty big pride too, I guess it comes with the culture and way they were raised? so it makes the hatred even more evident and extreme.

Perception is everything. To one person, not wanting to be the one white, or the one latino, or whatever in a group of another race means you're racist. To another, it's simply not wanting to be the odd man out.

Racism: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races

I learned about this from a documentary I watched for history class. Shame on me for believing what Japanese survivors talked about.

Anyways I would love to stay but my kid is hungry :(

if you agree with both the last and the first paragraph why didn't you just say that you agree with what he said :/
on topic with jaerik.
i dunno 2chan kind of inadvertently spawned 4chan and 2chan is japanese based :/

Don't mix things up though, I am generalizing that america has a big racial issue, I'm not here blurting out 'ALL AMERICANS ARE RACIST WHAA WHAAAAA'

I met some pretty nice americans, and I mean... PRETTY DAMN nice americans when I was in america, one of them gave me a free camera bag when i bought my canon <3 and he was pretty interested in our culture/history too.

still this doesn't change the fact that america has a big racial issue. sorry if I come out like I am pointing a finger at america, don't mix them up like I am being racial though I have no problem with you guys at all. I really do like america lol just the ugly side of racism scares the *** out of me, considering we don't have that here. :/ and I being latin, do get concerned.

Lol how'd be get to people not wanting to pay for insurance AND wanting to still get cheap health care? I just started on this page

well me being irish I am concerned as well.
that is my point of the racist card.
you bringing up the fact that you are latin all the time on the internet forum and saying it concerns you more than lets say a white guy is a bit racist regardless.

You got me pretty misunderstood, I just don't want to be around people that treat me like crap simply because of the way I look, regardless if they are americans, europeans, indians, aliens.... Which ever.

I don't care if I'm the odd one out, heck, I could be around aliens and as long as they aren't racial towards me I am happy sharing ideas/life/knowledge/air with them.

Yah, this whole issue was a little sticky. In 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Education wanted to revise the whole historical take on it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#Suicide_order_controversy

...as with all things, the debate over actual happenings and who will ultimately determine the "truth" of what happened is yet to be fully determined.

Problem is, you make it sound like racism does not exist in Puerto Rico, which, by human nature, simply can not be true.

I think the point people are trying to make is that it appears that you are pointing the finger at one country when every country has "racial issues". It's just that you don't really see it as much as you do when it's America.
You may not treat someone differently, but that doesn't mean someone else from PR wouldn't.

Well you percieve it as racist, but I'm not. I guess a lot of things can be misunderstood eh?

In her defense, the "spontaneous mass suicide" story was also the official version of events as told by the Japanese government until relatively recently. They only recently corrected the textbooks to report the truth that the military was involved.

(Edit: Damn, Schutz beat me to it.)

Quote faster next time, Jaerik! ^_-

well yeah, I am still implying that in PR you would oddly get that treatment here, you are as equal in here as anyone for the majorty of the people, I am pretty sure there is always someone who will be racial, regardless.

It's just not a big issue here at all. and yes sorry if I came off pointing out america only.