Visualization of everyday experiences of discrimination that are easily psychologized:

From a survey on microaggressions to Korean-Japanese youths.

Abstract

This study aims to clarify some aspects of the reality of microaggressions in Japanese society in everyday life. Specifically, this study used group interviews with Korean-Japanese to investigate the political situation, historical background, and how structural discrimination manifests itself in seemingly trivial daily interactions, and how those involved are forced to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. The survey confirmed the existence of three types of microaggressions in Japanese society. This study also revealed how social problems, such as prejudice and discrimination, are individualized and collected into psychological distress issues through the frame of microaggressions. This study is an initial investigation of microaggressions in Japan. However, it raises the importance of rethinking macro-situations on an everyday level through this concept and applying it to policy and interpersonal assistance.