Spiritually Japanese (original) (raw)

The term spiritually Japanese people (Chinese: 精神日本人; pinyin: Jīngshén Rìběnrén; Japanese reading Sēshin Nihonjin), abbreviated as jingri (Chinese: 精日; pinyin: jīngrì), is a pejorative term used in political and social discourse in mainland China referring to people of non-Japanese descent who are perceived to hold extremist views in support of Japanese militarism while harbouring hatred towards their own ethnicity and seeing themselves "spiritually" as Japanese militarists. A neologism that developed out of online communities, jingri's meaning and connotations are related to those of Japanophile.