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Japan isn’t very diverse and they seem to be doing ok. Diversity has it’s pros and cons.

• akhilcacharya 7y ago
  ~30 year stagnation is OK? Their 30 year postwar expansion was made possible due to American investment. The Abe government understands this and is attempting to lure foreign work albeit slowly. It’s hardly an example of cultural or economic dynamism the United States is.
• mcsofake 7y ago
  > they seem to be doing ok Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the point where it is necessary to have gender-segregated train carriages to stop groping. The only reason Japan seems to be doing OK is because their news are mostly inaccessible to the rest of the world.
  • deogeo 7y ago
    > They are literally going extinct Has immigration raised the birth-rate of the native population in other countries? I can find no examples of that anywhere in the modern-day West. Besides, there are significantly more Japanese people now than at any other time in history, the last decade being the sole exception [1,2]. They have a long way to go before having to worry of extinction, and the environment will be very grateful in the mean-time. As for reducing sexism, diversity is no guarantee, and can easily go the other way: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20161219-france-battle-against-gender-segregation-french-suburbs https://www.france24.com/en/video/20161219-france-battle-aga... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_before_the_Meiji_Restoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_b... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Historical_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Historic...