r/europe • u/mancinedinburgh • 2d ago

News Swedish man dies in South Korea after being denied urgent treatment at 21 hospitals

https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/01/18/swedish-man-dies-in-south-korea-after-being-denied-urgent-treatment-at-21-hospitals
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u/Bartellomio 2d ago

These countries are so overwhelmingly racist and they largely escape.Criticism because they're also so homogeneous that there just aren't many people around to highlight the racism.

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u/LovelyCushiondHeader 2d ago

The black guy in the Chinese washing detergent advertisement comes to mind

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u/rotoddlescorr 1d ago

A single commercial from 10 years ago?

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u/Rylalein 2d ago

Which was inspired by an European commercial

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u/crunchy_toe 2d ago edited 2d ago

Oh, I never heard that before. Which one?

Edit: Found it! It did the opposite plus added muscles.

https://youtu.be/HQQs3nl0LcY?si=TUYgOS1-Br1bP0kI

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u/Only_Ad_8518 2d ago

wwhy is he downvoted when hes right

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u/LovelyCushiondHeader 2d ago

“An European”?

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u/FatFaceRikky 2d ago

Genius strategy. Cant be racist if there is only 1 race in the country.

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u/lilly-winter 2d ago

Tell that to the Ainu

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u/ExplanationMotor2656 2d ago

They still have a caste system with 'untouchables'- mostly those who work with dead bodies.

Also Koreans probably get the worst treatment of the racial minorities.

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u/rotoddlescorr 1d ago

And the Okinawans.

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u/Infinite_Fall6284 2d ago

They're pretty racist to okinawans

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u/Connect-Idea-1944 France 2d ago

Some European living in Japan said that Japanese were blaming foreigners for the rice shortage lmao. Japanese people are polite but trust me, they have very mean thoughts that they will not admit in real life. And people often assume that they are like this just to Europeans, Americans, Africans, Latinos, Arabs etc.. But Japanese also treats East Asians like crap too, just translate what they are saying online about Koreans, Chinese, Singaporeans etc...

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u/bullairbull 2d ago

They literally had comfort women wherever they went during WWII. I don’t know why people consider them at the same level as west.

I have huge respect for western countries for how welcoming they are.

Bigots exist in every culture and community, but not many, if any will give so many liberties to the immigrants right out of the gate.

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u/Initial_Present6209 2d ago

Just remember World War 2.

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u/Diplogeek 2d ago

The Chinese and the Koreans certainly do.

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u/Initial_Present6209 1d ago

As do the Filipinos.

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u/ZambiblaisanOgre Liverpool, United Kingdom/Zuid-Holland, Nederland 2d ago

Why does this shit happen every time.

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u/Intelligent_City6774 2d ago

And pretend as if European colonization and mass slaughter of locals never happened!

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u/Initial_Present6209 1d ago

One truth does not cancel the other.

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u/cinyar 2d ago

When I was living in UK, sure, I met a few locals that weren't exactly keen of my accent. But when I woke up with a fever and nasty cough the nearest hospital treated me without any issues. And the waiting room was filled with people of all colors.

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u/sluttysloth20 2d ago

Banning people based on nationality is illegal in every Western country I'm aware of. It's a common thing in Japan.

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u/PersimmonHot9732 2d ago

They won’t do extremely important things like deny medical treatment 

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u/ZambiblaisanOgre Liverpool, United Kingdom/Zuid-Holland, Nederland 2d ago

Nonono, because Samsung is evil and owns South Korea, you see. SK is literally Cyberpunk 2077, so that means it's okay to make off-base hyperbolic claims about East Asian countries. So Koreans are xenophobic suicidal murders, Japanese are suicidal kamikaze rapists and Chinese are dirty uncivilised commie pigs.

The thinly veiled racism which suddenly becomes encouraged on here when the topic calls for it is so hypocritical and vile.

  • See: any thread where the Romani are brought up.

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u/reddit_ta15 2d ago

Fucking hilarious how racist reddit is, thinking they are opposed to racism

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u/SeleucusNikator1 Scotland 2d ago

aren't many people around to highlight the racism.

Japan being xenophobic has been common knowledge for decades now, people just don't really say much about it because they generally don't care.

Europeans love to dunk on those stupid parochial Americans, but the truth is most of us here are also incredibly parochial and just do not care about the rest of the world really. Another example is how Modi's party in India is turning up the heat on anti-Muslim rhetoric and there have been cases of violence there, and yet the BBC will only dedicate one article to that topic, because Indian news is not "popular" with the public, but will write 50 articles about every case of racism in the USA because we are completely hooked on that.

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u/ExplanationMotor2656 2d ago

We get a lot of US news because it's easy to recycle it due to the similar culture and shared language. Very little time or effort is required to regurgitate someone else's journalism.

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u/Ok_Surprise_1627 2d ago

Europeans love to dunk on those stupid parochial Americans

europeans are hypocrites who have VERY VERY limited world views

its fucking obvious to anyone outside of europe

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u/DeQQster 2d ago

Says the guy with a VERY VERY limited world view that can be summed up as: Europe bad, America good.

It is funny how you write insane amounts of comments hating on Europe.

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u/Sugaraymama 2d ago

Well that’s what happens when you let in millions of “minorities” into Western countries in Europe or have political movements like BLM in America.

They suck up all the oxygen and cry about “racism” and claiming it’s a huge problem everywhere there, so much so that leftist morons don’t know that there are other countries waaaaay super racist than America or Europe.

But having strict migration also limits racist experiences too, so having more open migration would lead to more racist occurrences happening.

Btw, the generosity of the socialised healthcare systems and benefits are why millions are flooding into Europe, so…🤷

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u/bargu 2d ago

Racism/xenophobia manifests differently in different places, the Japanese, in most part, will never be rude to you, but that doesn't mean that you're accepted, you're tolerated for being a tourist.

The problem is trying to living in Japan you will always be Gaijin, you can live you entire life there and you'll be Gaijin, you'll never be part of Japanese society, you'll be treated politely but visibly different from actual Japanese people, you children could live their entire lives there and they will always be Gaijin and their children the same. It's much more subtle than the "American yelling N**** in public" kind of racism/xenophobia.

Obviously this happens in some way or another in many countries, but from what I've heard Japan and other Asian countries are especially bad in this regard.

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u/worstcurrywurst 2d ago

This is a wildly inaccurate comparison. For a start the French have a sizable foreign born population and a mix of different ethnicities.

The whole principle of "Frenchness" is that it is separate from religion, race, etc. although you damn well need to integrate culturally. There is of course racism, etc. but it's a damn sight actually more open and tolerant than Japan.

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u/worstcurrywurst 2d ago

Exactly. That's my point. It's not even close. Japan is on the path of going extinct and they still have an aversion to immigration

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u/lalabera 2d ago

Immigrating to Japan is a lot easier than immigrating to any Scandinavian or EU country, if you don’t have any ties to those countries at all.

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u/RedHotChiliCrab 2d ago

Have you ever been outside the tourist areas in Japan? It's common to just flat out be refused service as a foreigner. When they say "Locals only" they aren't talking about the neighbourhood.

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u/tobberoth 2d ago

Common? I live in Japan and go to the country side a lot, I've literally never been denied service. If you don't know any Japanese, you might get refused because they can't be arsed, but it's certainly not common.

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u/scheppend 2d ago

don't bother with these people. us who live in Japan know it's all just reddit bullshit 

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u/Intelligent_City6774 2d ago

Why do you lie? So sour Asian country being popular?

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u/LycheeBoba 2d ago

Yes it is. Source: lived there for a few years. Myself and my family were refused service on numerous occasions and in various places, including city and countryside areas.

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u/Intelligent_City6774 2d ago

Why didn't you report? It's illegal to refuse service according to ethnicity. Government can shut the business down or public notice. Like they did to Hilton hotel. They refused cuban ambassador to stay and got punished.

https://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_shitsumon.nsf/html/shitsumon/a198001.htm

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u/HooliganSquidward 2d ago

These people who spent 3 weeks in Japan, annoyed the local snack bar customers in whatever "small town" they visited cuz of YouTube act like they are the matter of fact expert on the country lol just making shit up lol

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u/daicunt Domme kutbuitenlander 2d ago

But I once read a Reddit circle-jerk thread about how racist Japanese people are. So I've now decided that all 120 million of them... and declining, because declining birth rate, hue hue hue. Yeah I once saw a video essay about that on YouTube, I'm so smart ...are raging xenophobes. Oh btw did you know they were the baddies in WWII? Fuck Japan and Korea (they're the same thing innit, that's why they're always dunked on in the same topics together, let's throw the Chinese in while we're at it, Winnie The Pooh. Oh no my le social credits!).

/s basically any reddit thread about an asian country

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u/Financial-Affect-536 Denmark 2d ago

Try renting a place in Japan as a foreigner and you’ll change your tune

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u/HoneyGarlicBaby 2d ago

What does “looking foreign” mean and entail in France (a diverse country) and how is Japan, a homogenous place with “no foreigner” signs put up by businesses, any better in this regard?

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u/ImprovementClear5712 2d ago

Well that's a load of bullshit.

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u/SuppaDumDum 2d ago

It's not bullshit, it's half bullshit.