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Summary Of Hiding In Plain Sight
In the chapter titled “Hiding in plain sight”, the author, Kyle Cleveland addresses minority issues in Japan. The title to this chapter descriptive of the racial and class discrimination that the minorities in Japan undergone as a result of being marginalized by the system. Cleveland points out the racial problem that has been going on within the country for about one hundred years and counting as he views it from a political point of view; the public perception in regards to partisan politics; as well as from the point of view of the minorities’. As Cleveland points out, the political class is actively spearheading the discrimination of minorities. The author is of the view that the Japanese political ideology still has conservatives assuming
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