How is that? Lmao. I am a history buff however.
Early Japanese visitor baffled by race in America (1872)
I think his experience would have been very uncharacteristic. He was an official diplomat with government papers and credentials. People are going to be nice to him to avoid creating an international incident, and also he would have been kept away from the dregs of white American society. A normal Japanese civilian travelling through the US would have had a completely different experience, one where he would have been exposed to the ugliness of American society throughout his trip
stuff like that is why people become more beast than person the more they love objects
ironically the more "beautiful" the people the more prevalent baby killing seems to be
Freedman
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That channel has tons of accounts of history like this. I think there is one about someone from the Soviet Union who came during Jim Crow times and was like wtf are they doing in the South
Ok, do u think an Haitian diplomat would have had the same experience as him? Or a dark skinned Indian from India? To give some context, Gandhi was told to use the colored bathroom when he visited the states.
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All Star
1872 was the middle of reconstruction. He might have had a different opinion if it was any other time period.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
This is now Japan was a strong ass militaristic empire back then.
Gandhi was no diplomat. He was a political activist for an organisation that had little legal legitimacy at home and was constantly subjected to brutal police crackdowns. He certainly had no legitimacy at all in foreign countries. Why should you treat him well, what's the worst that can happen if you don't? If you mistreated a British ambassador you might see consequences of that in India, if you mistreat Gandhi nothing happens at all.
This is the issue: just because you are a diplomat doesn't mean you won't be mistreated and racially abused. It only means that there are certain consequences for if and when that happens. So if you want to treat somebody like shyt, when you find out he's a diplomat you have to ask yourself if its worth all the trouble that will come out of it,
The Racist Diplomatic Incidents That Embarrassed JFK Abroad
This article talks about the international humiliation suffered by the JFK administration when a diplomat from Sierra Leone was refused service at a restaurant because of segregation:
So it's in your best interests to treat diplomats well, otherwise bad things can happen. It doesn't mean you aren't racist, only that you're pragmatic enough to pick on somebody who's truly powerless, like a Gandhi type who is basically just a civilian. But sometimes people don't think that far ahead and just go and do shyt anyway.
So to test your idea, what we need to see is a 19th century travel diary written by a Japanese tourist or a document written by an immigrant. Then we can get a good comparison.
nah breh. I get what you're saying. But you can tell if people are being nice to you because they have to be. Watching the video, i got the impression the japanese foreigner was deeply perceptive. And a person like that would be able to distinguish honest interactions from dishonest ones.
the only way a japanese or other fair skinned person would have feared for their safety back then is if they were recent immigrants who didnt speak english too well. Other than that, if you were a japanese individual born in this country or if you spoke english well, I seriously doubt u would find yourself being harassed on the same level as blacks were.
also, this was back in late 1800s when most people werent educated. im sure dude interacted with the locals (who werent obligated to treat him well). Yet, he didnt experience anything negative worth recording.
This aint the same breh.
King
The black man is always targeted.
Fukk Gandhi I’d piss on that racist fukks grave right now
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Listen to how he talks about how oppressed women in America were back then. 