I have Chinese ancestry and was born in an African country. I know racism can come in all forms since I was bullied because of my yellow skin and my flat chest by my black classmates. Anyway my point is, even though I agree with most of your posts, there's this one I can't stand : The one about the rape of Nankin. Japanese never acknowledged this horrible part of history even though it is true. It was a form of racism. Japanese did atrocious things to Chinese people and they never apologised

We’ve talked about that here several times, so there’s no single one post. We have to separate two very different things here:

the atrocity itself the rhetorical act of calling on the atrocity as an excuse for cultural appropriation (the Japanese are bad people, so it’s ok to wear a kimono) which is then usually extended to excuse appropriation from other Asian cultures

As a Japanese-American, I have no sense of “Japanese patriotism” as people in the US understand it. I have a lot more in common with Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans and other Asian-Americans than I do with Japanese nationals. From my position, I have no power whatsoever to affect the Japanese government, but I do what I can, where I can. If accusatory white outsiders really care about the victims of Japanese war atrocities, I would suggest supporting their descendants and listening to their descendants about what their current, modern-day issues are.

I’m also not going to buy into the dehumanization of Asians that makes us all especially racially responsible for atrocities committed by one. That’s the same logic that put the Japanese-Americans in camps. I believe in collective responsibility and universal citizenship, but not in scapegoating. Allowing this racist logic to go unchecked hurts not just Japanese-Americans, but all people of color subject to racial scapegoating. I’ve had the experience of being blamed many times for things such as the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, Vietnamese water torture of American POWs, the economic recession of the 1980s, Chinese foot-binding, and Genghis Khan. I’ve literally been blamed for Genghis Khan. I’m used to it by this point. I’m not offended on behalf of myself, but I am offended for the victims of Japanese wartime atrocities whose suffering is so cynically appropriated by these outsiders.