Message from @.B
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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.
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.
I believe Michio Kaku did an interview where they briefly touch on the topic of the Ainu.
From Wikipedia, "The official number of the Ainu is 25,000, but unofficially is estimated at 200,000 due to many Ainu having been completely assimilated into Japanese society and, as a result, having no knowledge of their ancestry."
Considering the Japanese part of my family is from Hokkaido, it was just something I stumbled upon while looking into my family history.