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I don’t know anything about Switzerland, but immigration isn’t a solution to the prospect of Japan “not having a country left in a few generations.” There might
by rayiner 7mo ago
I don’t know anything about Switzerland, but immigration isn’t a solution to the prospect of Japan “not having a country left in a few generations.” There might be more or fewer people living on the islands, but “Japan” will be gone either way.
- platinumrad 7mo agoHow do you define "Japan"?
- rayiner 7mo agoThe standard way. The same way you define “Thailand” or “Bangladesh” or “Vietnam?”
- platinumrad 7mo agoIt seems like "Japan" will very much still exist in either of your scenarios then.
- red-iron-pine 7mo agothey're islands mon ami, it's not hard to define them -- the borders are fairly straightforward you can piddle around about a few tiny islands elsewhere, e.g. okinawa, but the main islands are undisputedly "japan"
- platinumrad 7mo agoSounds like it will still exist then, barring climate catastrophe.
- throwawaypath 7mo agoThe nation state located on the islands of Japan populated with almost exclusively Japanese people.
- platinumrad 7mo agoGood news then: it's still going to be there in a hundred years!
- throwawaypath 7mo ago[flagged]
- throwawaypath 7mo agoIt won't be "Japan" if they start importing immigrants by the tens of millions.
- felipeerias 7mo agoNowadays Japan’s fertility rate is higher than most of its neighbours. We are just used to pick it as an example because it started aging earlier than most other countries. Japanese population is still over 120 million. Forecasts put it falling below 100 million at some point in the second half of this century. Things will have to change in order to keep population stable in the long term, but the Japanese approach seems IMHO more sensible than that of other countries. Cohesive democratic societies are fragile.
- Starman_Jones 7mo agoI can’t parse this statement. I’m not sure if this about culture changes or about climate threat.
- platinumrad 7mo ago[flagged]
- rayiner 7mo agoYour idea of “racism” arose in a western historical context and simply has no application to Japan. Japan didn’t bring a bunch of people to their country by force and then enslave them and deny them political rights for hundreds of years. Nation-states not only exist, the UN recognizes their existence as a human right in the The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The UN recognizes a right of “peoples”—groups of people bound together by culture, ancestry, language, etc.—to self determination. I was born in a country named after one ethnocultural group (Thailand) and my family is from another country named after our ethnocultural group (Bangladesh). Japan is the homeland of Japanese people, just as Thailand is the homeland of Tai people, and Bangladesh is the homeland of Bengali people.
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- platinumrad 7mo agoNon-Japanese people don't be weird about Japan challenge (difficulty: impossible)
- weregiraffe 7mo ago[flagged]
- rayiner 7mo ago“Don’t think the whole world is America challenge” (difficulty: impossible)