| ▲ | zergrush 4 hours ago |
| I just find it odd so many non-Japanese media and commentators weigh in on this. Japan is not a multicultural country. You can't become Japanese through paperwork. It is very much through blood heritage, your language and cultural proficiency. The bar to be Japanese is much higher than say Canadian or French. So why shouldn't they create laws that is aimed at benefiting themselves and their country without depending on foreigners? Also if you have a business and you don't have $125,000 you are not going to make it in Canada or America either. |
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| ▲ | dgellow 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > I just find it odd so many non-Japanese media and commentators weigh in on this What is odd about it? People comment on every country immigration policies. Why would Japan get a special exemption |
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| ▲ | xethos an hour ago | parent [-] | | > People comment on every country [sic] immigration policies That's the world as it is, not necessarily as it should be. Not being a citizen of the country in question, or part of the culture, and most importantly, not being one of the people that deals with the consequences of whichever choice is made, means your opinion counts for so little as to be barely worth sharing |
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| ▲ | QGQBGdeZREunxLe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Also if you have a business and you don't have $125,000 you are not going to make it in Canada or America either. I had less than $10k to my name when I moved to Canada. I have done very well since. |
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| ▲ | postsantum 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I have done very well since How about Canada? Did it become better or worse since then? | | |
| ▲ | bluefirebrand an hour ago | parent [-] | | I was born Canada. Lived here my whole life. I'm ~40ish years old It's absolutely become worse since the 80s I get a lot of shit from my fellow countrymen when I say it. Rose colored glasses, etc But nah. It's way harder to be successful here than it was even 20 years ago | | |
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| ▲ | gozucito 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Through blood heritage ? Explain why the blood is needed. Is it perhaps because Japan uses a different type of oxygen that needs different hemoglobin? |
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| ▲ | Noe2097 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It feels normal in a globalized world for commentators around the globe to observe and weigh in on the decisions of any country, especially one of such economic importance and cultural significance as Japan. That being said, I wholeheartedly agree on your points regarding Japan not being a multi-cultural country. And this, indeed, is rarely (if ever) mentioned in articles such as the one posted here. Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation. |
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| ▲ | mostlysimilar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation. That's not at accurate from what I know of Japanese history. You seem to be over-indexing on the (relatively) brief Tokugawa-era sakoku policy and ignoring the thousands of years surrounding it where Japan was an active importer of culture. Kanji, government structure, Buddhism, law, art and more were all imported from China and hugely influential in Japanese history. After the the Meiji Restoration, Japan explicitly set out to Westernize and went abroad to study European and American institutions, invited Westerners in to help build European-style banking systems and government systems, adopted Western clothing, architecture, military organization, legal codes, etc. etc. If anything the Japanese are masters at importing the things they like of foreign culture and then modifying to make it their own. They have always been importers of culture. | |
| ▲ | zergrush 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There lies the thesis you pointed out. The point of these articles and coverage seems to be aimed at "Why isn't Japan multicultural yet, so racist!" which makes no sense. Japan has been inhabited by Japanese language, culture and homogeneous people for thousands of years. There is absolutely no need for Japan to become multicultural or any other country for that matter because not being multicultural isn't a fault or a sin. I don't know why so many in the West demand this on other countries. There's just something very unnatural and unrealistic and scary to expect a homogeneous country like Japan to suddenly start calling a clearly non-Japanese looking person Japanese. It's going to create huge problems for Japan that won't benefit it or its people by any measure. | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Japan is an island So is Sicily… and yet it's quite diverse… | |
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| ▲ | evilfred 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| this is colloquially referred to as blood-and-soil... |
