1, Research Question
Why are there less discrimination against Jewish people in Japan as compared to western countries?
2, thesis statement
The reasons why Japanese people have not discriminated Jews so much can be explained by
A the difference between Japan and western countries in religion
B scapegoat problem
C the influence of Jewish people on economy
3, Introduction
Jewish people have been discriminated on a large scale for such a long time such as Holocaust or Pogrom. On the other hand, in Japan, such a horrible did not
A statistic date shows how many Jews were killed
B Sugiwara Chiune is one of the good examples of how Japanese people think of Jews.
4, Body1
A religious difference
B scapegoat
a Jewish people are regarded as the cause of Black Death
b Adlf Hitler blames jews for Germany problems before World War 1
c Japan treated Chinese or Korean people as scapegooat when Kanto daishinsai
occured in 1923.
Hi Shoji,
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting comparison to make, but I wonder if it will make your paper too complex?
Basically since discrimination against Jews does not exist in Japan (because most people have no opinion on the matter because they don't really know anything about Judaism and few Jews live in Japan)...it seems like that comparison may have less significance than other possible research questions.
"Why are the Jews discriminated against in Europe?" seems to be one main question that you are answering in the outline above. That is a very good question, so you could focus on that.
One more step would be, "How can anti-Semitism in the United States (or Europe, or the Middle East) be fought against more effectively?"
Here is a report about antisemitism in the United States issued in 2007. I got this link from the Antisemitism page on Wikipedia, which has links to many sources.
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/poll_2007/Anti-Semitism%20Poll%202007.pdf
Obviously Islamic countries have the deepest negative feelings against Jews...and Jews also return that hate...and that is the Israel problem. How can that hate be turned into mutual understanding and coexistence?