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Dismissing the argument that "more immigrants could make the country vulnerable to terrorism" as xenophobia is naïve. E.g. look at the nonexisting problems Jap
by avar 10y ago
Dismissing the argument that "more immigrants could make the country vulnerable to terrorism" as xenophobia is naïve.
E.g. look at the nonexisting problems Japan has with Islamic terrorism or non-integrating foreigners forming ghettos v.s. say France.
- krapp 10y agoGiven the tendency in Japan to blame criminal activity on foreigners or Zainichi Koreans (despite most crime in Japan being committed by the Japanese,) I think it would also be naive to assume xenophobia isn't a factor.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> (despite most crime in Japan being committed by the Japanese,) There are a lot more Japanese in Japan than there are foreigners. Similarly, blacks in the US "only" commit a little under half of murders... but they are much much less than half of the population.
- bewo001 10y agoWhen I visited Japan, I noticed that public trash bins are extremely rare. I read later, that they were removed after that poison gas terrorist attack in the 1990s. The problem in European countries is the lack of integration. The USA have a long tradition to integrate immigrants and avoided those kind of ghettos. And today I read that during 2002 and 2016, toddlers killed more people than terrorists..
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHeck diarrhea kills more; depression kills more. We talk less about clean water than stratospherically-unlikely events like winning the lottery, succeeding in Silicon Valley or being killed by terrorists.