Those who spoke to you that way are in the wrong.
But if you ever placed a burden on others to fulfill your own religious obligations, you would be criticized too.
As the Quran says: "No bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another." (6:164)
If you can swear that you faithfully keep this, then to anyone who told you to leave, you need only say one word: "Peace." (25:63)
Immigrants are obligated to follow the laws and systems of the country they move to, and adapting to its cultural customs is their consideration.
Japan has long-standing cultural customs, perhaps longer than those of the United States.
But we know that you built your nation on the frontier spirit.
That foundation must never be shaken.
Consideration isn't only about taking action. Choosing not to take an action is also consideration.
Consideration: when y voluntarily chooses to support x.
Request: when x asks y for support.
Imposition: when a third party z tells y that y should support x.
Obligation: when an imposition is established by law or institution.
Consideration becomes a request the moment it's asked for, and an imposition when someone else demands it.
Thank you for understanding that she meant no harm. That means a lot.
Let me say it again. I, at least I, have deep respect for the wounds you've carried through history, and for the way you live on while carrying them.
But we fight in a different way.
You say it's unnecessary. For us, it's exactly how we fight.
Our way is to make those fools who hurt you understand, down to their very bones:
"Skin color never mattered in the first place."
You said "in our culture." Exactly. Here's ours.
If a Japanese person with darker skin wants to be an elf, they paint themselves white.
If a white person paints their skin yellow and it matches the character well, we praise them.
Even if it's a monkey character.
That's how we Yellow Monkeys do cosplay.
@MsKawaiiSammy@niamate_ There's something we haven't told you yet, so let me add it.
If anyone ever painted their skin black under the name of cosplay with the intent to insult you, we would never forgive them.
Never.
Because that would be an insult to cosplay itself, the very thing we love.
We're not treating your skin as a costume. We're treating our own skin as a costume.
No one's skin color belongs to anyone else. How we dress our own bodies is up to us.
And I do understand your historical pain. But it was white people in the past who caused it, not us Japanese. Shouldn't the debt for that pain be paid by those who actually caused it?
Is healing that pain something that can only be done by taking away someone else's freedom of expression?
@nyoanme Because they're delicious lol If aliens came to Earth because humans taste good, I'd fight back. But if I got eaten anyway, well, that's that. I'm ready for it.
If we should respect the cultural background shaped by the history of white people demeaning Black people, then Japan, where there were hardly any Black people, has its own cultural background without that history. I'm genuinely curious: why isn't that background respected as well?