The "slanted-eyes" photo controversy.
The whole thing started when Miss Finland posted a photo of herself with her eyes slanted to X to show that she was "dining with a Chinese person."
I'm not interested in stupid woman. I don't care about woman like that.
But it seems she's been stripped of her title of "Miss Finland."
In Japan, firm and decisive action is rarely taken. Japanese people prefer to "wait" for things to fade away, as if they were an unfortunate natural disaster. In Japan, we say "Pour into the water (laughing at the crime)". Or, Japanese people will all side with the perpetrator, madly and thoroughly blaming the victim, bullying them, silencing them, and bringing the situation to a close.
They have a very despicable and cunning national character, but it is precisely for this reason that they have been able to comfortably become an economic superpower.
Three Finnish members of parliament (one of whom is female) posted a photo of themselves posing with slant eyes on X to show "their intention to protest" the revocation of their "stupid woman" title.
What surprised me even more was that the Finnish Prime Minister apologized for the "incident." I understand his intention to put an end to the fire quickly. However, the photo was posted on his personal account, not the ruling party's official account. We were surprised that the head of government apologized.
In Japan, it is rare for leaders to take decisive action after a "scandal" occurs. In most cases, the issue is swept under the rug. In Japan, this is called a "the solution by jewel beetle color"...
Incidentally, neither the Chinese President nor the Foreign Minister has apologized for the actions of the Consul General in Osaka, who posted a death threat against the Japanese Prime Minister. A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry defended him.
The Osaka Consul General was not replaced and continues to post enthusiastically to X in Japan. In China, X, Facebook, and Instagram are not available, but in Japan, posting and viewing are free, so he must be having so much fun, feeling happy, and going crazy.
I want to take this guy to mental hospital as soon as possible.
The "Slant-Eye Pose" incident has caused quite a stir in Japan.
You might be thinking, "Why are the Japanese protesting when they are just making fun of the Chinese? The Japanese are currently being treated so badly by China (the Communist dictatorship), so shouldn't the Japanese be happy and say, 'Well done!'"
However, the reason is simple. Prime Minister Takaichi clearly has "slant-eyes." Her eyes are quite sharply slanted, as if the corners of her eyes are pulled up by a fishing line. Even she herself cannot deny this.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Takaichi's approval rating is over 80%, and is said to be "on par with a dictatorship."
Thanks to the instigation of foolish Chinese Communist Party dictatorship (shining radar on F-15s, releasing videos of hypersonic missiles being fired at the Japanese archipelago, invading Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands, spreading fake news that "Prime Minister Takaichi is receiving bribes from Taiwan," distributing defamatory images, and complaining about Japan using nuclear weapons against mainland China in defense of Taiwan...), the approval rating of a prime minister, the highest in modern Japanese history, is unlikely to wane anytime soon.
The three member of parliament in the photo with their slant-eyed poses may be thinking in their hearts, "We didn't mean to insult the Japanese people. We were just imitating the Chinese people's faces."
However, in the above political climate, if a foreign member of parliament were to publish a pho
to of themselves posing with slanted eyes, clearly intending to convey a deliberate message, it would have been expected that they would receive a stronger outcry from the Japanese than from the Chinese (for one thing, X cannot be viewed in China. Even via a VPN within China, it is blocked by the Chinese government's highly advanced internet censorship technology, "the Golden Shield").
Since Japan is on the other side of the world from Finland, they might say, "We don't know what Prime Minister Takaichi looks like. We couldn't have anticipated the backlash from the Japanese."
However, Aside from the case of a stupid woman, in the case of a member of parliament, this excuse doesn't hold up.
By the way, slanted eyes are not very common among Japanese people. The overwhelming majority are Koreans.
However, since so many South Koreans have cosmetic surgery to change their appearance to look more like Japanese people (actors, idol singers, manga and anime characters), there are no South Koreans with slanted eyes (after plastic surgery).
The proportion of people with double eyelids is relatively high among Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, and Chinese people, and people without slanted eyes are actually more common.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li do not have slanted eyes. Mao Zedong's eyes are more droopy. Bruce Lee may have slightly slanted eyes.
Finland is a country I really like, a country I admire and think, "I'd love to live in a country like that," so I don't think much of this "incident."
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