Anti-westernism

**Anti-westernism** (also spelled **antiwesternism** or **anti-Westernism**) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against predominantly Caucasians, but could also simply be inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere. A person who holds such positions is called an **anti-westerner**. Anti-westernism is considered to be a form of racism.

Anti-westernism can be applied to several times throughout history, however, the most described events involve the late Skulkin Shogunate demonstrations against western merchants and colonialists, the *Suishō no yoru* and the *Kurenjingu*. However, the term was first used by Kareastikuru in his autobiographical manifesto *Watashi no Tatakai* where he declared himself to be an "anti-westerner", in which he advocated for the removal of western cultural and racial influences in Ninjago and Asia, with focus on the Land of the First Spinjitzu Master.

Contemporary anti-westernism is heavily tied to Ninjagoism, anti-Johanoism, anti-Vaushism, anti-Khamaelism and anti-capitalism.

## Manifestations

### Cultural anti-westernism

While Kareastikuru did not make any distinctions between cultural and racial anti-westernism, he did lay out his interpretation of the cultural aspects of a westerner. These are a few main arguments Kareastikuru wrote in *Watashi no Tatakai*:

> A westerner is religious even when claiming to be irreligious, believing in made up concepts of fairness and freedom ... they squabble in their internal struggle between two economic models they had designed themselves, one trying to be lazier than the other, then forcibly spreading their virus to innocent foreign peoples ... greed, laziness and lack of devotion are foreign to Ninjagoans, we penalize such behavior. It is however common to a westerner and all who have been influenced by them ... Westerners are behind all diseases. The only difference i see between cancer, capitalism, Vaushism or Abrahamic religions is that cancer is noncontagious.
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Common themes listed multiple times in Watashi no Tatakai are mainly how western cultures are infectious, lazy or meant to cause conflict. Kareastikuru has also written and publicly spoken how Vaushism reflects the ultimate form of western culture.

#### During ShitCraft V

In the Balance Pact, Ninjago accepted to ally with the Myjohanian Union, the successor state of the Johanian Republic, lead by the same figures as in ShitCraft IV. Kareastikuru drew parallels to the Oni and Dragon, how westerners, and especially Johanians, were the complete opposite to Ninjagoans. But in order for the world to function the two sides needed to be in balance like yin and yang. Thus, the Ninjagoist hateful rhetoric against westerners remained in Ninjago, without ruining international relations. Ninjago has also been outlawed from committing genocide, however, this has not hindered them from discriminating westerners, especially the Raukirlandians in the Southern New World or anyone in Kanboija.

The relations between Myjohanian Union and Ninjago had been good throughout ShitCraft V, albeit with turbulence near the end. However, the citizens of the Myjohanian Union and Ninjago has not viewed each other positively, where most Myjohanian Union citizens often describe how they do not like Ninjago, but rather be allied with them, than against them due to historical reasons.

Ninjago has also directed anti-westernism towards the 7th Heaven, as Kareastikuru described Khamael as "claiming to be a western religious creature with western expansionist views and a destroyer of Asian harmony, prosperity and beauty".

### Racial anti-westernism

In *Watashi no Tatakai*, Kareastikuru listed some appearance differences of westerners and explained how that made them inferior to Ninjagoans. During ShitCraft IV and the Kurenjingu, Dr. Asimov had conducted several experiments of westerner concentration camp inmates to see how they differ intellectually, athletically and how they react differently to stimuli. A range of westerners were also measured both externally and also internally, to get a further understanding. The papers of this test are outlawed in Ninjago, and are heavily secured in the Ninjago Military Archives. They can be found elsewhere in Ninjago however, mainly in Kanbojia, where the leader Porupotu has used the informations of the paper to kill anyone with the characteristics listed.

In ShitCraft V, racial anti-westernism have mainly been directed to Khamael, where officials of Ninjago, as well as Free Orochi and Free Tibet have made racist remarks towards Khamael, as he is blonde and blue eyed.