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Sounds like Japanese are happy with their culture and don't want it changed especially not by foreigners. It seems like a reasonable enough position, but I won
by collyw 9y ago
Sounds like Japanese are happy with their culture and don't want it changed especially not by foreigners.
It seems like a reasonable enough position, but I wonder if there a way to express this desire in a way that couldn't easily be criticized as being "xenopohbic"?
Is there something inherently wrong with this attitude? (I personally wouldn't want to be a foreigner living there is what he describes is true, but no one is forcing me to move to Japan).
- amiga-workbench 9y agoIt doesn't ring as being particularly Xenophobic to me, they just have a strong cultural backbone unlike the west. I wouldn't even consider moving to another country unless I was prepared to integrate and abide by cultural norms.
- collyw 9y agoLike I say, it seems like a reasonable enough view, yet I can't find a way of describing that view that couldn't easily be criticized as xenophobic. (If I imagine taking any of the attitudes described in the article and doing the same thing here, many people would criticize them as being xenophibic).
- J-dawg 9y agoI guess trying to reverse cultural change will always be seen as more xenophobic than keeping outside influences away in the first place. This is illogical, I suppose, since really they amount to the same thing.
- honestoHeminway 9y agoCongratulations, in the west, you wont have too.
- brucephillips 9y ago> Is there something inherently wrong with this attitude If the culture is good, no. If the culture is bad, yes.
- collyw 9y agoI am pretty sure it will be a mix of both. (More importantly, who decides what is good and what is bad).
- brucephillips 9y agoMuch morality is relative. Some isn't.
- peteretep 9y agoThat doesn't sound at all what's like being described. He is describing being treated as inferior for being different, not describing his frustration that he can't teach Japanese people to change their culture.
- J-dawg 9y agoThis is a very interesting question, and one that's being asked all over the world at the moment. To use the example of Brexit - I sometimes feel like the 'Remain' side, in accusing 'Leave' of xenophobia & racism, painted themselves into a corner where any discussion of reducing migration was taboo. I voted 'Remain' and am generally fine with current levels of immigration, but would I continue to be ok if these levels doubled, tripled, quadrupled? To be honest, I'm not sure. In that sense, perhaps I'm not really much different from a 'Leave' voter, we just have different levels of sensitivity to opening our culture to foreigners. (Or course, the referendum was about much more than immigration, but there's no doubting that it was a huge factor for many people.)
- collyw 9y agoThe problem is I don't hear anyone asking it, instead they seem to take one side or the other.
- lawless123 9y agoPeople have rights, not cultures.