The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2015, Brighton, United Kingdom
Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2015, Brighton, United Kingdom
Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2015, Brighton, United Kingdom
Official Conference Proceedings

This research examines the mass communication discourse on Japanese hate speech
incidents and briefly skeches the related arguments. The analysis seeks to offer insights
into the recent backlash against minorities. The incidents appears to be the product of a
combination of contemporary deprivation and systematic racism, compounded by
neo-conservative xenophobia and ethnocentrism which are fundamentally caused by the
jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood) law
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. Despite these occurrences, media discourse
ends to downplay the problem of Japanese harming the ethnic Koreans, portraying these
racists as alienated youth who conside hate speech as one form of identity politics.
Facile multiculturalists let these racists speak and act and freely, as if the facts about
mistreatment of minorities and their being were merely options. This creation of a new,
disadavantaged minority may lead to further hostile responses and strengthen existing
ethnic divides; often it causes members of the general public to distance themselves
from the issue.

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