ANTH 3550
Japan
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Japanese Cultural Nationalism
Altering Immigrant Perception
Change by Force
Status minorities in Japan are those who are not educated, do not come from educated families, or have unfavorable occupations. The value and worth of a status minority in Japanese culture is rated amongst their familial/ancestral connections to rates of production and which then determines individual godliness and worth amongst a society. Ethnic minorities in Japan are Burakuin, Ainu, Okinawans, Chinese and Koreans. immigrant groups such as the Immigrants and the biologically acquired physical characteristic that mark them as immigrants are counterintuitive the cultural nationalism of Japan. Being that cultural nationalism becomes imprinted and reflected within a mainstream general populous, it is the general populous who will implement and disperse pressure, also known as social pressure, into compromising their ethnic identity. Changes in government policy, and access to education, and small-scale participating in commerce is what are affecting and transforming ethnic and status minorities today.
Dominant Ideological Models, Goals of Expansion, and History
Cultural nationalism is a ideological and socially constructed tool used to change/exchange an individual’s entire understanding, value scale, and perception/interpretation of their original ethnic identity. It is then replaced, for the socially desired idealistic vision of the most socially desired social group, within the geographic confines of a nation. Through entities such as structural frameworks, ideologies, and institutions these ideas are then burned into the consciousness and sub-consciousness of an group outside of the ideal-type and is implemented and carried out through pervasive propaganda, discriminative policy, social pressure, mores or taboos,
Typically the ethnic group selected by societies who is the designated framework to be modeled and designed after,