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TwinkieDP wrote: Japanese culture has some of the weirdest stuff I've ever seen. Ever heard of those computer Sim dating games designed for overworked, non-sociable salary men?
Japanese cartoon and video games are the stuff which I can’t understand ,it ‘s so abstract !

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icering wrote: Japan is still one of the best countries to go too IMO...but Japan is 98% Japanese lol. I'm black and when i go to japan i am one hot item unless i'm in okinawa where there are a lot of Foriegners, but on the main Island its a bit tough; And the glass ceiling is very low job wise for a gaijin unless you have some good skills.
I guess you will still be a hot item in china,don’t worry about that,Just think in the busy street where all the face are yellow ,suddenly a black face appear in front of you ,you will feel something abrupt, that feeling is very normal when you live in a country where you can see only one race in the street everyday ,both in china and in japan

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Demothenes wrote: Well, I imagine that Japan has an excuse for being a bit racist. As icering said, they are 98% japanese, and really never had a push for social equality. They don't necessarily believe that they're superior, it's just that they are a society that greatly fears diversion from the norm. They never had the need to evolve past their ancient, xenophobic ways, simply because there was no justification for it. They were caught off guard by diversity.

It'll get better eventually, I'm sure, as the world mixes more and more.
Actually ,japan is the most westernized country in Asia,that’s one of reasons why they are so successful in Asia today ,both in free market economy and democratic politics .Their life style is also more westernized than any other east Asia country. Their achievement today mostly due to their study ,study china at first(you could see there are many Chinese characters in Japanese), and study west later .We china also studied west from 1860,we experience success and failure during the study and copy western economical and political system,but one thing we studied and accepted is deadly for our future,the communist!That lead china to lag behind many countries even there are less developed than china before(example :south korea ,Singapore and Thailand ),but there is also a example which Chinese party study west successfully in Taiwan ,that is KMT(party)

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TwinkieDP wrote: Demothenes wrote: Well, I imagine that Japan has an excuse for being a bit racist. As icering said, they are 98% japanese, and really never had a push for social equality. They don't necessarily believe that they're superior, it's just that they are a society that greatly fears diversion from the norm. They never had the need to evolve past their ancient, xenophobic ways, simply because there was no justification for it. They were caught off guard by diversity.

It'll get better eventually, I'm sure, as the world mixes more and more. Somehow , I tend to believe that the leaders of Japan deliberated maintain a pure "Japanese Race" on their islands. It is much easier to mobilize the people for economic purposes, for militaristic purposes when you don't have conflicting cultures to deal with. That was one of the reasons why Japan was successful in the Sino-Japanese wars. A smaller more united nation was able to take on a larger, albeit more ethnically diverse country and win in Wars.
We don’t know exactly whether Japanese leader deliberated maintain their “pure race”, but the truth is there is no tradition for them to accept immigrant ,because in history ,japanese always go abroad for make a living(example ,they move to south America ).Japan’s history decides their view of accepting immigrant .
Talk about sino-japanese wars, I believe your point don’t be persuasiveness, because china is also a one race country ,Han ethnic group consist 93% of its whole population .the reason why japan can successful invade china in 1937 is china national power is weak at that time,there ‘s civil war(communist party and KMT party) everyday before 1937,so that chaotic situation give japan a great chance to invade and occupy china

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KOV-14 wrote: TwinkieDP wrote: KOV-14 wrote: "One race" mmm... unless you are a famous pro soccer player from Brazil, then you are invited to become a Japanese citizen. Huh? What does that mean? So Japanese are willing to accept anyone except Pro Brazilian soccer players? Did you mistype something or what? Your English is somewhat poorly worded...

My bad man. Yeah, the Japanese government has always been real an*l about letting anyone who are not of Japanese origin to become its citizens, and there were pretty much no exceptions made even for those who were married to a Japanese etc. but the government did not hesitate for a second to give Brazilian soccer players: Alessandro Santos, Wagner Lopes and Ruy Ramos Japanese citizenship.

My point is that the Japanese government isn't really interested in maintaining Japan's single race, single culture society but they are simply trying to justify not giving the Korean "forced labor" immigrants from WW2 era Japanese citizenship.

You can be born, and raised in Japan, married to a Japanese spouse, speak Japanese fluently (native proficiency) yet as long as you are not ethinically Japanese, it is nearly impossible for you to become a Japanese citizen. This is really ridicolous already but to make the matter even more unacceptable is that Brazilian soccer players can easily obtain Japanese citizenship.
Yes, japan has the strictest immigration law in the developed world ,but that’s not surprised ,japan is not a immigrant country ,so they won’t happy to see so many foreigners move to their single nationality and culture country .

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KOV-14 wrote: lol. OF COURSE!

The JPN gov't isn't communist, its citizens as well as foreigners can own property/land. (However I heard in China no one, not even its citizens can own land.)
Not exactly .you can have rights to use land ,but don’t have the rights to sell or mortgage it

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foadi wrote: KOV-14 wrote: (However I heard in China no one, not even its citizens can own land.)
Yeah, China is in desperate need of land reform. The Economist had a good article on this very issue a few weeks ago.

How to make China even richer
Mar 23rd 2006
From The Economist print edition

Let the peasants own their land



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Now is the time to revive Mao's vision of a new landowning order. This would ease rural strife, fuel growth and help develop the genuine market economy the leadership claims to want. Giving peasants marketable ownership rights, and developing a legal system to protect them, would bring huge economic benefits. If peasants could mortgage their land, they could raise money to boost its productivity. Ownership would give them an incentive to do so. And if peasants could sell their land, they could acquire sufficient capital to start life anew in urban areas. This would boost urban consumption and encourage the migration of unproductive rural labour into the cities. For China to sustain its impressive growth rate and reduce inequalities, getting the many tens of millions of underemployed peasants off the land and into wealth-creating jobs is essential. The exodus would help those left behind to expand their land holdings and use them more efficiently.

[. . .]
Advisable article ,wish top Chinese leaders to read it deliberately

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dolphin wrote: icering wrote: Japan is still one of the best countries to go too IMO...but Japan is 98% Japanese lol. I'm black and when i go to japan i am one hot item unless i'm in okinawa where there are a lot of Foriegners, but on the main Island its a bit tough; And the glass ceiling is very low job wise for a gaijin unless you have some good skills.

ya. japan is American's best lapdog.
haha,only you use "insult word"in this thread ,do you feel something interesting when you make yourself out of ordinary ?

[dolphin]

anti-communist wrote: dolphin wrote: icering wrote: Japan is still one of the best countries to go too IMO...but Japan is 98% Japanese lol. I'm black and when i go to japan i am one hot item unless i'm in okinawa where there are a lot of Foriegners, but on the main Island its a bit tough; And the glass ceiling is very low job wise for a gaijin unless you have some good skills.

ya. japan is American's best lapdog.
haha,only you use "insult word"in this thread ,do you feel something interesting when you make yourself out of ordinary ?
No, never. WHy?
I just express the truth.

[TwinkieDP]

anti-communist wrote: dolphin wrote: icering wrote: Japan is still one of the best countries to go too IMO...but Japan is 98% Japanese lol. I'm black and when i go to japan i am one hot item unless i'm in okinawa where there are a lot of Foriegners, but on the main Island its a bit tough; And the glass ceiling is very low job wise for a gaijin unless you have some good skills.

ya. japan is American's best lapdog.
haha,only you use "insult word"in this thread ,do you feel something interesting when you make yourself out of ordinary ? Interesting choice of words you have there.