Discrimination In Japan

In the article “Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan”, what is interesting is that foreigners and Japanese people are considering this issue from different angles. People from other countries mainly take nationality or race into consideration, but Japanese people seem to think about only Japanese people who are discriminated. Also, even when only considering those Japanese people, the situation surrounding them seem to affect their views like Natsumi Suzuki who has a handicapped brother.

Mike Dewood says in his response “Ebb and flow of discrimination”, that it depends on where people live which groups people think are discriminated worst. This opinion sounds reliable because many people can be influenced by the situation of the places they live. For example, if you live in the town which has “Buraku”(the area where burakumin live), you see many people who discriminate them, and the ideas of those people have much impression on your own thought. Also in the case of the author, few people in his town could know that he is an American when they see him for the first time, but his nationality, American, let him think they do this because he is an American.

I think those two articles show that many factors affect each person’s thought about this issue, such as nationality, family situation and the place where people live. In other words, thoughts about discrimination or people who are discriminated are different to each person because no one lives in the very same situation.