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Do people call Japan's immigration policy racist? No because it applies to everyone equally. They call it xenophobic because that is exactly what it is. In the
by yardie 10y ago
Do people call Japan's immigration policy racist?
No because it applies to everyone equally. They call it xenophobic because that is exactly what it is.
In the US we actually had a racist immigration policy, the Chinese Exclusion Act [0] because it was actually applied to a single race created by actual racists. Do you see the difference?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
- mc32 10y agoNot sure why you're stating things about the US when we're talking about the UK and their policies --which apply to Europeans as well as people from other countries. And yes, the Chinese exclusion act was by definition racist... But no one in any major western country is talking about excluding one race or even nationality of people outright (Trump talks about "pausing" immigration from conflict zones). People do speak about controlling their legal immigration and deterring illegal/undocumented/etc. immigration (but pretty much all countries do have visa requirements (or inter country-region agreements) --even those who mainly export workers.
- yardie 10y agoI was just pointing out a flaw in your argument. I don't actually consider the UK's immigration policy as racist. Short-sighted, definitely. but racist? Definitely not