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Maybe they want the Chinese students who are smart enough to open their eyes to the world.

You mean a Chinese student who bypasses government restrictions? Yes, surely such a student will be great at your university and follow all your rules...

You're making a different point than you think...

A student who believes in the freedom of information and is curious probably will do great in school. A great institution understands rules are meant to uplift and protect us, and that a student who sees beyond black ink and chiseled stone for a better tomorrow is the very same breed of rule maker which creates such great institutions in the first place. I know first hand from colleagues, bypassing the censorship is common for intelligent youth in China. We must always ask ourselves what the best is we can do and always avoid the "dangerous slippery slopes"

Japan generally doesn't see rules as meant to uplift people, they are meant to instill discipline.

Look, I'm on HN, I agree with looking beyond rules and freeing information. But universities and institutions generally don't want to be filled with non-conformists

Usually, users are not seeing the keywords. It's hidden from their eyes.

Still racism, even if there is a noble goal behind it. If an university in the US deliberately skipped over black schools when it came to recruitment drives, with the excuse that "they want the black students who are persistent enough", they would (and should) be raked over the coals for racism.

Japan is not US and Chinese are not black. Context is everything.

I'm not even sure what you're arguing for. Are you claiming that "racism" means different things in US compared to china? Or that "context" needs to be considered when determining whether an act is racist?

Yes, I’m arguing that. Japanese racism against Chinese (and vice versa) is very different from white-black in the states.

I fail to see how "context" can materially change whether an act is racist or not. There might be some edge cases around "dog whistles" or whatever, but hard to see how this act isn't an intentional act to dissuade chinese students from applying. That's racism. How does the history between chinese and japenese materially change this?

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