Saving Face Nonsense!

De: Franco Farzami

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Anyone who has visited East Asia, lived, or worked in the region is likely familiar with the concept of “saving face”, which is nonsensical code for covering up racist and ethnocentric behavior that is punishable under international law as a hate crime. There are lots of local myths and even some pseudo-science coming out of Japan in which they try to associate the non-sense of face saving as a social phobia or Taijin kyofusho, which is essentially classified as a “fear disorder”, but in truth, this doesn’t meet the classification when looked from an objective perspective per the criteria of the DSM-5 or the ICD-11. Studies trying to link “fear disorders” in Japan are biased and an attempt to cover up national problems that persist throughout all of East Asia as it pertains to overt and covert racism and ethnocentrism. Genetically, the gene flow to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan has been through China, in which, 92% of the population is Han Chinese. In Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, the number of Han Chinese in the population is substantially higher, ranging between 94% and 97% respectively. Ironically, China actually has laws that protect expatriates and minority groups within its borders against racism and hate crimes, and despite being centuries behind Western nations in regards to protecting human rights as set forth by the United Nations and international law, China is light years ahead of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, which have absolutely none. The entire region has historically had zero immigration and currently some of the nations can claim to have about 1% of the population residing annually in their nation as being immigrants, but the reality is that the US and Europe in conjunction with legacy media have been championing Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as modern democracies since the late twentieth and into early twenty-first centuries when in fact they have archaic legal systems and pose a greater threat to foreign nationals than countries controlled by dictators in the region. Basically, they are democracies of Han Chinese people that don’t embrace plurality nor uphold international law as they are both covertly and overtly racist, so it’s arguable that they are actually a greater threat to Americans, Europeans, and people from other nations than other countries in the region. They may allow “foreign nationals” on their soil, but since hate crimes are legal within these nations, it’s less safe doing business and traveling to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan than to Mainland China from a legal standpoint. “Saving face” isn’t a cultural phenomenon; it’s slang for “I am racist and ethnocentric, and you don’t have any rights in my country and aren’t a person in my mind.” Don’t fall into the East Asian trap or supposed cultural phenomenon of “saving face” nonsense as you have an obligation to stand up for your rights, so all violations should be reported to local foreign affairs police, one’s national government, and the United Nations with as much immediacy as possible. Change and self-respect being within our heart and mind, and if you don’t stand up for your rights, then no one else will!

“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass”. -Lyndon B. Johnson