Gaijin go home.

I'm in Japan right now =p

:p

They are actually pretty friendly to gaijins. You just wont become one of them

The gaijin card is a thing

I mean... you can if you have genetic heritage.

I now know how black people get away with everything

You can nationalize without problems. But if you look like a gaijin they have different expectations of you

This is true.

And its the only "western" country that's safe

you can leave your phone in the middle of the street for 3 hours. When you get back its there

Lol I literally had this conversation with my boss today.

Society works here

The possibilities are incredible

You know manga/internet cafes?

They only work here because of the culture

In the US a black guy would rob half the booths in 10mins

there's no security needed here

I mean social privileges like that only works in a tight knit society.

Advantages of being on an island and never being officially conquered by a foreign power.

No mass immigration

No multiculturalism

Which has the disadvantages of erasing some of the non-mainstream indigenous cultures... like the Ainu.

Also, life is hard if you don't assimilate

Everything has its cons and pros

I'm fine with their cons

True. However I feel that for the sake of history, it is the moral obligation of a dominate culture to preserve and archive the cultures they assimilate.

If you look at history, we always did the reverse

And that's what makes those instances where thing do survive, ever more precious.

The dominant culture colonised and destroyed the others, forcing them in one way or another to adapt to the dominant one

Like when the Taliban bombard Buddhist carvings off the side of a mountain. Tragedy for the world.

This topic sounds a bit unrelated to japan though

Well I mentioned the Ainu.

They kept their borders and didn't gobinto the diversification meme

Idk what's Ainu tbh

And the assimilation of the Ryukyu islands...

And the Ainu is a northern Japanese ethnic group.

I'll have to read about it

Often considered the "white Asians."

They have a closer genetic lineage to Russians than to the traditional Japanese social body.

Really fascinating outlier in the field of human genetics.