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| - A bloodline of Nosferatu who practice Necromancy. They are of Japanese descent. They favor will and intelligence.
- Burakumin(部落民Literal translation: "small settlement people") are a Japanese social minority group. The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō, the Ryukyuans of Okinawa and Japanese residents of Korean and Chinese descent. The burakumin are descendants of outcast communities of the feudal era, which mainly comprised those with occupations considered "tainted" with death or ritual impurity (such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners), and traditionally lived in their own secluded hamlets and ghettos.
- The burakumin (from the Japanese for "village people") are descendants of people who, in feudal Japan, were treated as outcasts from society. Although they have largely integrated into life in modern Japan, they still face discrimination in some areas of the country. Historically, such outcasts were engaged in activities involving either death or the slaughtering and processing of animals.Although "burakumin" is not particularly seen as derogatory, the preferred term within the community is "mura-no-mono", or "people of our community".
- The Nosferatu bloodline that has become known as the Burakumin originated in feudal Japan within the social stratum of the same name. Beneath the samurai and the soldiers and the priests and even peasant farmers were those mortals whose professions were considered spiritually unclean by the tenets of the Shinto and Buddhist religions.
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| - The Nosferatu bloodline that has become known as the Burakumin originated in feudal Japan within the social stratum of the same name. Beneath the samurai and the soldiers and the priests and even peasant farmers were those mortals whose professions were considered spiritually unclean by the tenets of the Shinto and Buddhist religions. Kindred Princes of the eastern domains, Japanese Nosferatu were restricted from feeding on or Embracing from anyone outside that same class of mortals. In time, all of Japan's Nosferatu were referred to as Burakumin, or "Hamlet people", and the name and stratification spread throughout much of Eastern Asia as Burakumin Nosferatu expanded their influences under the cover of various Japanese Imperialistic advances.
- A bloodline of Nosferatu who practice Necromancy. They are of Japanese descent. They favor will and intelligence.
- The burakumin (from the Japanese for "village people") are descendants of people who, in feudal Japan, were treated as outcasts from society. Although they have largely integrated into life in modern Japan, they still face discrimination in some areas of the country. Historically, such outcasts were engaged in activities involving either death or the slaughtering and processing of animals.Although "burakumin" is not particularly seen as derogatory, the preferred term within the community is "mura-no-mono", or "people of our community". On House, M.D., we learn in the episode Son of Coma Guy that Gregory House was inspired to study medicine when, during a period when his father was stationed in Japan, he accompanied an injured friend to the hospital and was assisted by a man who he initially believed to be a janitor but who turned out to be a physician of buraku descent who had been ostracized by the other doctors in the hospital. However, they had to turn to the buraku when House's friend took a turn for the worse because he was the best doctor in the hospital. During the feudal period, the burakumin were segregated into separate villages. History is not certain whether the burakumin were ostracized because they engaged in activities seen as impure, or whether they turned to these activities because they were not permitted to engage in more respectable activities. Ironically, because the burakumin held a virtual monopoly on such activities, they were often financially successful. Despite being restored to full legal status in 1871, there was still blatant discrimination against them and they often suffered financially as others entered into their traditional professions. It was not until the early 20th century that the Japanese government started a program of improving their living standards and punishing those who discriminated against them. From the 1960s to the early 21st century, the government actively worked to improve their living conditions and by 2002 that goal had been largely accomplished and funding was ended. Discrimination largely continued until the 1980s when younger members of the community started protesting for equal rights. Although numbers are uncertain, there are about 900,000 buraku in Japan today according to the government, and about 3 million estimated buraku according to their support organizations. In two prefectures, they form the majority of residents.
- Burakumin(部落民Literal translation: "small settlement people") are a Japanese social minority group. The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō, the Ryukyuans of Okinawa and Japanese residents of Korean and Chinese descent. The burakumin are descendants of outcast communities of the feudal era, which mainly comprised those with occupations considered "tainted" with death or ritual impurity (such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners), and traditionally lived in their own secluded hamlets and ghettos. They were legally liberated in 1871 with the abolition of the feudal caste system. However, this did not put a stop to social discrimination and their lower living standards, because Japanese family registration (Koseki) was fixed to ancestral home address until recently, which allowed people to deduce their Burakumin membership. The Burakumin were one of the several groups discriminated against within Japanese society. According to a survey conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2003, 76% of Tokyo residents would not change their view of a close neighbor whom they discovered to be a burakumin; 0.5% of respondents, on the other hand, would actively avoid a burakumin neighbor. There is still a stigma attached to being a resident of certain areas traditionally associated with the burakumin and some lingering discrimination in matters such as marriage and employment. The long history of taboos and myths of the buraku left a continuous legacy of social desolation. Since the 1980s more and more young buraku have started to organize and protest against their social misfortunes. Movements with objectives ranging from "liberation" to encouraging integration have tried over the years to put a stop to this problem.
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