Japan oral history review
Online ISSN : 2433-3026
Print ISSN : 1882-3033
What Is the Meaning of "Reconciling" Ourselves with Our Own Discriminations?(<SPECIAL ISSUE>ORAL HISTORY AND RECONCILIATION)
Hiroaki YOSHII
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2009 Volume 5 Pages 39-53

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We talk about the various problems of discrimination in everyday life. But we seldom reflect on our own prejudices and discriminations. Therefore, the minority liberation movements need to use better communication tactics that force us to narrate, recognize, and de-construct the discriminations we have done. This is the core theme for civil enlightenment to tell us how important it is to reflect on our own discriminations. In this article, I examine about the possibility of "reconciling" ourselves with our own discriminations and assert the importance of narrating and facing them in the "here-and-now". We should not deny them instantly, but recognize them and narrate why and how we had done such discriminatory acts. In doing so, we are able to reflect on ourselves and re-construct ourselves, who discriminate.
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