about 20 k off of di maria instead of lucas <| sep |> I think minorities might need to hit a critical mass before racism becomes a problem . I moved to Japan a year ago , and haven ' t noticed any racism towards me . It might be just because I spend 12 hours a day in the lab , it might be because I wouldn ' t understand racist comments in Japanese . But I suspect that it has a lot to do with the fact that there ' s not enough white people here to be a threat . If millions of Americans descended on Japan as Trump refugees or something , the locals might develop a different opinion I suspect this has already happened in Okinawa , where the military bases have brought in lots of Americans of all colors . The racist thoughts don ' t become apparent until there are people to be racist at . As far as your second paragraph goes , what else would Asians in America be called ? Where white and black can be used to describe people of European or African descent without raising an eyebrow , if you call someone yellow , you ' re called a racist .