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If immigrants replaced Americans in the country of America, is it still America?
by formerly_proven 5y ago
If immigrants replaced Americans in the country of America, is it still America?
- SnowHill9902 5y agoThat’s essentially my own question. It’s not specific to Japan. Do you want to answer it?
- beaconstudios 5y agoYes, it's still the same country. And nobody's being replaced if the Japanese are reproducing at lower than replacement rate.
- teakettle42 5y agoIf you replace a country’s culture, it’s still the same country?
- TeaDrunk 5y agoThat's just called changing culture. This happens at each generation at least.
- krapp 5y agoJapan's culture has arguably been almost completely replaced several times over. Is it still Japan?
- ativzzz 5y agoChange is the only constant in nature
- beaconstudios 5y agoyes. A country is a series of lines on a map. also did you mean to imply that culture is essentially tied to ethnicity? because it isn't.
- akiselev 5y ago
- School-Cotton 5y agoThe name is irrelevant. It’s certainly not the set of cultures it was before that event happened, no.
- indecisive_user 5y agoWell sure, the name of the continent is still "America", but the actual country, the United States of America, did not exist before European colonists. So no, it's not the same country now.
- throwaway_1928 5y ago
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- bfung 5y agoComes down to the culture and ideology of the country. Is the culture thinking being a X is race based or is it based on a way of life, or both? At least back in the 80s and 90s, my US education and history books say that America is the melting pot of the world, and ideally not race based, but based on the idea of personal and religious freedom. USA as we know now began as a country of immigrants - so by definition, yes, USA still stands regardless of race and ethnicity. Whereas, the older countries having a more homogeneous race, ethnicity, and culture, that question is a lot fuzzier.
- decafninja 5y agoThe United States is not an ethno-state though. Maybe during its founding and in the past it was, but it has long stopped being so, despite the recent desires of some factions to want to turn it into one again. Multiculturalism has long become one of the defining characteristics of the US. Japan (and frankly, many other countries) are indeed ethno-states.
- bmitc 5y agoAmerica isn't a several millennia old, monoculture-ish country. Edit: well, it was.
- Ekaros 5y agoUSA with maybe Canada, is rather special case. In general other countries around the world are more or less ethnic, or at least have be big ethnic groups and somewhat shared cultures.