The Hair Police (w/Anne Crescini)

Japan By River Cruise

Anne Crescini talks about how Japanese schools don't have the resources to properly combat bullying, because those resources get used on student hair color and fingernail length.

Ollie FINALLY starts studying Japanese again.
Wait, wow WAS Bobby looking at the Holocaust before?

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Brian's Birthday
• The HELL that is the PTA and how her experiences with it affected Anne's Japan-facing online persona
• How horrible it is to have to join a line group chat
• The reactions Anne's received so far since she's shifted into slightly more Japan-critical territory
• The Praise-Japan-for-pay career track
• The way your foreignness gets wielded against you when you try to advocate for change
• Bullying among adults in Japan
• A very ill timed request for more of your money
• "Black School Rules," what are they and how they are and are not enforced
• Anne's daughter's experience with "hair color verification" rules in her high school
• What a human rights lawyer told Anne about these kinds of school rules
• The Osaka case in which a girl was forced to die her natural hair, and the way the Japanese courts refused to actually take a position
• Ollie's time as a Japanese high school student
• How students are able to practice self expression on Japanese school campuses
• How hot are those napes, guys? Did you see those napes?
• WHY Japan tries to exert control over children's appearance
• The overemphasis on conformity and how it affects people who naturally do not conform
• Noah's Unseen Japan article on hair regulations
• When and why were some of these rules initially put in place
• How these rules can be applied to discriminate or harass
• Elementary school training bra rules
• The cultural difference around the responsibility on the part of the school to "parent" and instill moral values in students
• The way in which Japan tends to rely on and even voice a desire to have authorities regulate them
• The Japanese approach to the "it takes a village" philosophy
• How the attempts to force kids to conform can lead to bullying
• The pressure placed on schools to take care of kids even outside of the school
• Why schools step back when it comes to bullying
• A recent incident of suicide in which the school actively withheld information about bullying from the family
• A theoretical focus on bullying without any effort dedicated to practical intervention
• Anne's hope for the future

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Content Links:
Unseen Japan Article about Hair Regulations

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