{"id":16380,"date":"2021-01-16T12:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16380"},"modified":"2021-01-17T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:19:09","slug":"educating-the-non-japanese-underclass-my-shingetsu-news-agency-visible-minorities-col-2-sept-17-2019-link-to-full-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16380","title":{"rendered":"“Educating the Non-Japanese Underclass”, my Shingetsu News Agency “Visible Minorities” Col 2, Sept 17, 2019, link to full text"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0It\u2019s been nearly two years since I wrote my first feature piece for the Shingetsu News Agency<\/a><\/strong> (the only independent English-language media left in Japan not toeing a Japanese government line; please subscribe) after the rightward editorial swing over at The Japan Times. \u00a0All of my columns are behind a paywall, unfortunately, but now with the acknowledgment of SNA, I am now reprinting my columns in full on Debito.org after one year has passed since publication. \u00a0Here\u2019s an excerpt to my second \u201cVisible Minorities\u201d column, followed by a link to the full article in the Debito.org original timeline. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Visible Minorities Column 2: Educating the Non-Japanese Underclass<\/strong>
\nShingetsu News Agency, SEP 17, 2019 by DEBITO ARUDOU<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2019\/09\/17\/visible-minorities-educating-the-non-japanese-underclass\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 In a shocking series of expos\u00e9s<\/a> at the beginning of this month, the Mainichi Shinbun reported that minority children of workers in Japanese schools were being segregated from their Japanese peers, put in classes for the mentally disabled, and systematically denied an education.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For years now, according to Ministry of Education surveys, schools have subjected their non-native foreign minority students to IQ tests. The results were striking: Non-Japanese children were found to have \u201cdevelopmental disorders\u201d at more than double the rate of the general Japanese student population.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Striking, but not all that surprising\u2014since these tests assessed IQ via culturally-grounded questions, on things like Japanese shogunates and tanabata festivals. They also considered a lack of Japanese language skills an \u201cintellectual\u201d disability.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let that sink in. Try claiming that your Japanese students are dim because they aren\u2019t proficient in English, and then watch how long you remain an educator.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s where the bad science turns evil…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the full text at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15744<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 In a shocking series of expos\u00e9s at the beginning of this month, the Mainichi Shinbun reported that minority children of workers in Japanese schools were being segregated from their Japanese peers, put in classes for the mentally disabled, and systematically denied an education.<\/p>\n

For years now, according to Ministry of Education surveys, schools have subjected their non-native foreign minority students to IQ tests. The results were striking: Non-Japanese children were found to have \u201cdevelopmental disorders\u201d at more than double the rate of the general Japanese student population.<\/p>\n

Striking, but not all that surprising\u2014since these tests assessed IQ via culturally-grounded questions, on things like Japanese shogunates and tanabata festivals. They also considered a lack of Japanese language skills an \u201cintellectual\u201d disability.<\/p>\n

Let that sink in. Try claiming that your Japanese students are dim because they aren\u2019t proficient in English, and then watch how long you remain an educator.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s where the bad science turns evil… Read the full text at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15744<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-reprints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16381,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}