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> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet. Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant. If racis

> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet. Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant. If racism wasn't a problem, then immigration wouldn't be seen as a problem either. The real problem will be: when the rest of the "undeveloped world" becomes developed, and the need to migrate is relieved. Then we're ALL "Japan" economies. Oh wait, I don't see a problem with that.

d6ba56c039d9 5y ago
>> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet. >Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant. Any chance that that has something to do with it?
- majormajor 5y ago
  Some of the negative effects of racism can't manifest themselves much if you don't have any immigration. (They did in war, of course, but that's a different discussion.) Certainly if the US hadn't racistly enslaved, imported, and then continued to commit violence towards Africans for centuries, we wouldn't have as many people living now in such violence-fostering situations. So the US hit the bad-outcome jackpot of being racist AND having forced immigration (or, in other parts of the country, conquest)! But Japan's lack of immigration hardly forgives the racism - and to the extent that it relates to it, it causes its own problems: they've also missed out on some of the wealth created by various immigrants and descendants of immigrants in the US.
  - TMWNN 5y ago
    >Certainly if the US hadn't racistly enslaved, imported, and then continued to commit violence towards Africans for centuries, we wouldn't have as many people living now in such violence-fostering situations. You may find the words of Keith B. Richburg (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richburg>) of The Washington Post in 1995 (<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg/richbrg1.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg...>) interesting: >Somewhere, sometime, maybe 400 years ago, an ancestor of mine whose name I'll never know was shackled in leg irons, kept in a dark pit, possibly at Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, and then put with thousands of other Africans into the crowded, filthy cargo hold of a ship for the long and treacherous journey across the Atlantic. Many of them died along the way, of disease, of hunger. But my ancestor survived, maybe because he was strong, maybe stubborn enough to want to live, or maybe just lucky. He was ripped away from his country and his family, forced into slavery somewhere in the Caribbean. Then one of his descendants somehow made it up to South Carolina, and one of those descendants, my father, made it to Detroit during the Second World War, and there I was born, 36 years ago. And if that original ancestor hadn't been forced to make that horrific voyage, I would not have been standing there that day on the Rusumo Falls bridge, a journalist -- a mere spectator -- watching the bodies glide past me like river logs. No, I might have instead been one of them -- or have met some similarly anonymous fate in any one of the countless ongoing civil wars or tribal clashes on this brutal continent. And so I thank God my ancestor made that voyage. Also: >So the US hit the bad-outcome jackpot of being racist AND having forced immigration (or, in other parts of the country, conquest)! Ah yes, the United States that is so uniquely and irredeemably racist that Africans have not over the past 50 years sought to voluntarily migrate to it in large numbers. The Nigerians (who have been notably successful among all migrant groups in the US), and those from all over Africa who go to the trouble of flying to Brazil and then making the arduous trip to sneak across the Mexico border, do not exist. Not at all.

d6ba56c039d9 5y ago

>> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet. >Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant. Any chance that that has something to do with it?

majormajor 5y ago
Some of the negative effects of racism can't manifest themselves much if you don't have any immigration. (They did in war, of course, but that's a different discussion.) Certainly if the US hadn't racistly enslaved, imported, and then continued to commit violence towards Africans for centuries, we wouldn't have as many people living now in such violence-fostering situations. So the US hit the bad-outcome jackpot of being racist AND having forced immigration (or, in other parts of the country, conquest)! But Japan's lack of immigration hardly forgives the racism - and to the extent that it relates to it, it causes its own problems: they've also missed out on some of the wealth created by various immigrants and descendants of immigrants in the US.
- TMWNN 5y ago
  >Certainly if the US hadn't racistly enslaved, imported, and then continued to commit violence towards Africans for centuries, we wouldn't have as many people living now in such violence-fostering situations. You may find the words of Keith B. Richburg (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richburg>) of The Washington Post in 1995 (<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg/richbrg1.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg...>) interesting: >Somewhere, sometime, maybe 400 years ago, an ancestor of mine whose name I'll never know was shackled in leg irons, kept in a dark pit, possibly at Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, and then put with thousands of other Africans into the crowded, filthy cargo hold of a ship for the long and treacherous journey across the Atlantic. Many of them died along the way, of disease, of hunger. But my ancestor survived, maybe because he was strong, maybe stubborn enough to want to live, or maybe just lucky. He was ripped away from his country and his family, forced into slavery somewhere in the Caribbean. Then one of his descendants somehow made it up to South Carolina, and one of those descendants, my father, made it to Detroit during the Second World War, and there I was born, 36 years ago. And if that original ancestor hadn't been forced to make that horrific voyage, I would not have been standing there that day on the Rusumo Falls bridge, a journalist -- a mere spectator -- watching the bodies glide past me like river logs. No, I might have instead been one of them -- or have met some similarly anonymous fate in any one of the countless ongoing civil wars or tribal clashes on this brutal continent. And so I thank God my ancestor made that voyage. Also: >So the US hit the bad-outcome jackpot of being racist AND having forced immigration (or, in other parts of the country, conquest)! Ah yes, the United States that is so uniquely and irredeemably racist that Africans have not over the past 50 years sought to voluntarily migrate to it in large numbers. The Nigerians (who have been notably successful among all migrant groups in the US), and those from all over Africa who go to the trouble of flying to Brazil and then making the arduous trip to sneak across the Mexico border, do not exist. Not at all.