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For better or for worse, it doesn't seem difficult to attribute them treating everyone like family to the fact that they are essentially a homogeneous populatio
by aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
For better or for worse, it doesn't seem difficult to attribute them treating everyone like family to the fact that they are essentially a homogeneous population.
- astrange 5y agoThey aren't really. 98% of them are Japanese citizens but that doesn't mean they're "Japanese people" - the government doesn't track that. Also, the concept of "Japanese people" was invented in the Meiji era as part of their approach to resisting Western colonization by pretending to already be a Western nation-state. And of course, some of them are Ainu or Ryukyuan.