Editing Burakumin (section)

== Definition ==
Defining the {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} as a separate group is difficult. {{transliteration|ja|Burakumin}} parents sometimes do not tell their children about their ancestry in hopes of avoiding discrimination.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McLauchlan |first1=Alastair |title=Solving Anti-Burakujūmin Prejudice in the 21st Century |journal=Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies |date=31 January 2003 |url=https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McLauchlan.html |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref> Because of this, there is an increasingly large population that has no idea that others would consider them {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hankins |first1=Joseph D |title=Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan |date=2014 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520959163 |page=86}}</ref> Discrimination is primarily based on ancestry and location; someone with no {{transliteration|ja|burakumin}} ancestry may be viewed as one and discriminated against if they move to a former {{transliteration|ja|dōwa chiku}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yamagishi |first1=Atsushi |last2=Sato |first2=Yasuhiro |title=Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan's Invisible Race |journal=CIRJE F-Series |date=10 September 2022 |url=https://ideas.repec.org/p/tky/fseres/2022cf1188.html |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref>