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Pretty much every major culture has racism in its past. Pretty much every culture still has some percentage of racist people.



I don't know what strange romantic picture of Japan you've managed to paint in your head, but the real-world country has well-documented and very current issues with pervasive racism and xenophobia.


All mature cultures have a noisy minority population of xenophobes. Japan isn't special in that regard and I never said it was.




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