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Rokusuke72
In Japan, is hakujin and kokujin, used often when referring to white people and black people?
26 de jun. de 2011 7:40
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Yes.
And not often. They're always used as translation of English "white people" and "black people".
In fact, to make a distinction of black and white is rather a western thing. Race can be very obscure and the only time we have to make that distinction is when we learn history. Foreigners are just foreigners in Japanese minds.
I also happened to know that, in US census, they ask you what category of race you fall into. If I remember correctly, they have black, white, Hispanic, Asian, and others. I don't think a lot of Japanese people have that kind of mind frame. It might seem the idea that "Obama is black because Americans said so" is a little bit far-fetched but it has that element. It also brings up the question of "he's partially white. So why is he black anyway?" I won't delve much further into this but you know...
27 de junio de 2011
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In private conversation, yes. Not to their faces though.
26 de junio de 2011
Though 100 percent Japanese, I was born and raised in the U.S. Even though I celebrate oshogatsu, eat gohan with natto, I am a gaijin (foreigner)
28 de diciembre de 2014
I had a double take on that. I'd say it's not really that gaikokujin is mainly used for Asian foreigners. It's just that Asian foreigners account for a huge percentage and they're often indistinguishable from Japanese by the looks, resulting in being called out less by the colloquial form "gaijin".
28 de junio de 2011
yes.
hakujin : white people
kokujin: black people
gaijin: used for non-Asian foreigners
gaikokujin: mainly used for Asian foreigners
27 de junio de 2011
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Rokusuke72
Competencias lingüísticas
Inglés, Japonés
Idioma de aprendizaje
Japonés
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