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You are right. edanm asked for some evidence that there are idiots who think Japanese worship white people. It seems there are many, so the article really targe
by senki 16y ago
You are right. edanm asked for some evidence that there are idiots who think Japanese worship white people. It seems there are many, so the article really targets an existing problem. That's the point.
- shaunfs 16y agoFair enough
- edanm 16y agoI was specifically looking for evidence that scholars believe this. I don't doubt there are idiots who believe all kinds of things! And by the way, what's up with the people posting that Yahoo! question? If it's not a joke, I'm seriously worried about the state of humanity.
- senki 16y agoVoila: "The ultimate reason for the lower Japanese body esteem may perhaps concern broader cultural and historical perspectives. Being part of the West, but non-Caucasians, Japanese people seem collectively to experience high incongruence between their Western-oriented bodily ideals and the perceptions of their own body. " Japanese body image: Structure and esteem scores in a cross-cultural perspective by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel, in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 2002, 37 (3), 149–159 http://www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.anderson/courses/c5/s1/Kowner_Japanese_Body_Image.pdf http://www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.anderson/courses/c5/s1/K...