The_Burakumin__Japanese_Outcasts

The Burakumin: Japanese Outcasts The Burakumin: Japanese Outcasts Racism and discrimination is a common, but not accepted, practice in most societies. The thing that makes the discrimination of the Japanese Burakumin so different is the fact that they are racially the same as all other Japanese. Discrimination of Burakumin has been going on for centuries. In feudal Japan, there was a cast system that was formed. There was the emperor, the feudal lords, samurais, farmers, artisans, merchants and a group called hinin. Hinin usually had dirty jobs like cleaning toilets or leather craft. Beneath this group were the Burakumin. A portion of historians believe that early Burakumin were most likely native Japanese tribesmen that were defeated during warfare and forces into slavery. The modern Burakumin are descendents of gravediggers, executioners, and animal slaughterers and of people who had other “dirty” jobs. They are excluded from normal social activity because of Buddhist law, which states people who killed and ate meat were impure. Today, the Burakumin make up about 2.5% of Japan’s population. Officially, law has done with the Burakumin class away. However, people are still discriminated against for being a descendent of burakumin, japanese, people, about, years, group, government, even, discrimination, rights, racism, part, one, non-burakumin, liberation, league, japan, helped, allowed, states, over, numerous, likely, know, jobs, japan’s, instead, human, house, hinin, groups, given, few, employees, dirty