The Burakumin

I came a cross with an article in the CNBC page about the Burakumin issues with the google earth. (Source: )

Just to give you guys a gimps of what Burakumin really is, well Burakumin is actually just like ordinary homosapien, they have two arms, two legs, a head, a pair of eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair...yeah you name it...they are exactly the same as you and me. :)

However during the feudal era of Japan, Burakumin (a type of race) who are the outcast communities which mainly comprised those with occupations related with death or ritual impurity (assassin, undertakers, black witch etc) and are forced to lived in their own hamlets and hut.

During the E-do period, the Samurais was considered as the ultimate class of all, meanwhile the burakumin are treated as the lowest class of all in their social class systems, on top of that Burakumin was often forced to live in the goonies separating them from the rest of the society. Nevertheless, the social castal system of Japan was abolished in 1871 and all the social class of Japan was uniformed into a single body (every one is equal)

Conversely , when I read through the article, I am quite shock to find out even today,the modern Japanese society are actually still practicing this castal system. From the article, it is stated the society was pretty upsad to find out there is a small community of burakumin descendants living together with the normal class in the
modern city.

So why are they still doing that? Isn't that they have already abolished the castal system since 1871? (138 years) Perhaps, well who knows this system is already becoming part of their culture huh...well dont get me wrong, i am not stereotyping all Japanese are still concern and would discriminate the burakumin (I am only referring to the case in the article) ....

Well, as for me, I think the society would still need a hundred years to fully accept the Burakumin as on par with their social status....so what do you think then...how many more years do the society need to spend in-order for them to accept this particular poor group of people?

***Dear readers, I did not do any edition on this post, so if there is something doesn make any sense up there, please please please just ignore them ya ...cheers ^_^