"bitter anko" <anko@eater.com> wrote in message
>
> Burakumins are well-known snobbish people, the newly rich class. Actually,
> Etas were rich in the Tokugawa period because they had a monopoly of
selling
> leathers and some other products. But while some Etas get poor after their
> monopoly was confiscated by the Meiji restoration, as the samurai
privileges
> were confiscated, many of them got more richer because of the Japanese
> started to eat meat. The more market for them expanded.
>
> And now, those you are saying as poor burakumins are actually not
> burakumins. At least in Kansai, they are well known fake
> burakumins(so-called "ese-dowa") who want to get all those welfares from
> government. Many of them are Koreans.

This is either the one of the funniest or one of the most ignorant things
I have ever read, I just can't decide.  Burakumin = unspoken outcasts
in Japanese society who used to clean up the battlefields which was one
of the worst jobs you could have and made them the lowest of the low.

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