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byskam240 ( 789197 ) writes:
What a ridiculous expression of Japan's intolerance to letting foreigners in. Now instead of having immigrant shop workers who pay the variety of Japanese taxes that exist as well as spending their paycheck in country they're paying out for robots and sending paychecks out to off shored labor.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
What a ridiculous expression of Japan's intolerance to letting foreigners in.
It's worse than that, they're intolerant even of mixed Japanese. They had a couple of big repatriation pushes a while back but a lot of those people left again when they found out they were discriminated against.
bySmonster ( 2884001 ) writes:
This is true to a point. While as a society their policies are not very open, as someone who doesn't look at all Japaneses I can't say I have encountered any racism. I feel a lot safer in Japan's large cities compared any North American, South American, and European large city I have lived or visited. And I have spent a significant time in Japan over the decades and live in cities in multiple continents. I am married to a Japanese woman and have in-laws over there. Although I am also white, bigger than mo
byskam240 ( 789197 ) writes:
I've always heard Asia in general has a pretty strict hierarchy of racial superiority. Generally it's North Asians first and and Filipinos last. I've heard about it from Asians from Asia but the most in depth description I ever got on it was from a white friend of mine who went to UC Berkely (which has a lot of foreign Asian students). Apparently there was a lot of talking down to the "lesser" Asian people by the ones higher up on the superiority list. Like a shocking amount of it and it was utterly routine to the Asian students doing it.
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