<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2011 09:47, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sorry to barge into the middle of this... but while Japan is not<br>
xenophobic in the sense of ideas or visiting people, they are still<br>
one of the most "racially pure" focused peoples on earth. Racism (such<br>
as against Koreans) is still pretty widespread in Japan, is it not?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not know whether this is "racism", but certainly is a cultural trait quite essential to Japanese identity. Curiously enough, it is in fact historically coupled with an extreme xenophilia (with China for most of Japanese history and with the West later).</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
And I would add parenthetically, that Japan suffers greatly from the<br>
lack of an imported underclass... their population/age dynamic is<br>
messed up! No kids, lots of old people... it's gonna bite them hard,<br>
and probably already is.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am inclined to see the things in reverse in this respect. Japan is actually suffering, and is going to suffer severely, from its population dynamic. An imported underclass could hardly remedy that, and its absence sofar may have attenuated some of its consequences... </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>