Miss Universe Japan isn't Japanese Enough!

Today in idiots who don't understand a thing about the world and want to use situations they don't understand to push a racial agenda:

Miss Universe Japan, a lovely woman named Ariana Miyamoto, has been criticized in Japan for not being Japanese enough. Her father is an African-American while her mother is Japanese, leading every militant "everything's racist" American to call bullshit for the way the Japanese are treating her. Once again, let's allow the misinformed to get on their soapbox and spout racism without knowing anything about Japanese culture.

First off, I'd like misinformed people not to pin the blame for the racism against Ariana on white people in America because as a white American, I could have given a shit less about Japan's Miss Universe winner. In fact, I could give a shit less about America's Miss Universe winner. Fox News didn't run this story so white racists are definitely not the cause of the trouble here.

What is the cause is the most homogeneous culture in the world. 98.5 percent of people living in Japan are Japanese citizens. It's a culture that doesn't exactly shun outsiders, but it doesn't accept them. Foreigners who live and work in Japan can't get citizenship no matter the circumstance. And we as Americans think "Wow, that's pretty backwards for such a progressive nation". But considering the hundreds of years of being cut off from the west, also known as isolationism, and the fact that after less than fifty years of developing into a modern nation they had two fucking A-bombs dropped on them, they're less than receptive to the idea of foreigners (and yes, there were a myriad of circumstances and it was most likely the only solution but some of the older generation don't feel that way). They welcome the help, sure, and they will be friends with us and definitely treat us well if we're on vacation, but they won't treat us as one of them. And truthfully, we're not.

Japanese people have a major problem with westerners who try to act Japanese by obsessing over the very basic things about Japan. These are known as weeaboos and boil down to kids who try to speak Japanese and watch a ton of anime, thinking that's what Japanese culture boils down to. Japan hates people like this because it doesn't represent their culture at all. In a thesis paper I wrote about Japanese birth rates, I found an article blaming the declining birth rates on anime, only to find that one percent of the population of Japan identifies as an anime nerd. That doesn't mean anime isn't big, but it's not an obsessive hobby like westerners think.

What does this have to do with a mixed-race model? It's the idea that people who are not Japanese or only part Japanese can't understand the thinking of these homogeneous people. There's a deep-rooted fear of losing that train of thought, one that I've studied a bit into and still don't fully comprehend. We're looking at a culture running on Buddhist, Shinto, and Bushido principles; and that's only a modicum of the philosophy.

I've read tales of Japanese women marrying white men and being disowned from the family. It's scary to older Japanese people to see women marrying men of other races because the pure-blooded Japanese are dying out. Birth rates are declining, the population is declining, there are more older people than young. I hate to make this analogy, but I feel it works. Think about an endangered animal and how zoos go out of the way to protect them, nurture them, and breed them so that the species can proliferate and continue for many more generations. That's what Japanese people want. They want to be able to survive for many more generations as themselves, not as anyone else. They're proud people, and how can we knock them for that?

So back to the issue of a mixed-race winner of the Miss Universe pageant. Some Japanese people don't like it, fine. But one of their main arguments is that she doesn't represent Japan. She represents 1.5 percent of the country. Which is true, she doesn't represent the entire population. But this is progressive of the people in charge of the pageant and getting pissed at all the bad when we should be celebrating the good is ridiculous. It's a step forward, and every step forward, no matter the cause, always comes with loads of criticism.

Most of all, I want you social justice retards to shut up about it if you have no idea what you're talking about. Do some research, learn more about the country. Quit spouting uninformed opinions for the sake of feeling like your thoughts mean something. Instead, spout informed opinions like mine in the sake of feeling like your thoughts mean something.

I could go on and on about Japanese culture (and I may in future articles). Is this racist? Yes. Is it wrong? Yes. But is it right to label these people so poorly when they have a history of racism? I don't think so. Especially when this train of thought is as ingrained in the Japanese psyche as American Idol is in ours.