“I’ve never met an Asian who wasn’t racist and pro-Asian first and foremost.”
[says GDL/White Master. Akira replies:]
I’m sure that’s your experience; but also it sounds sort of right for the average Asian, except that most Asians don’t even know what “racist” means.
A Japanese woman, in Japan, once asked me: “What does “racist” mean?” [She lit. said "raysisto", since the Japanese word is just a Japanese pronunciation of the English word, which should tell you something.]
I said something like, “Well, it means if you think that different people or nations or populations are somehow different, because of their genetic background, or their culture, or some other observable difference…”
She said, “I don’t understand.” So I more or less repeatedly myself, more slowly.
Again: “I don’t understand.”
Me: “What don’t you understand?”
Her: “I mean, what’s the point?
Why would anybody make up a word for that?"