abracat1

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by abracat1 15y ago
Yes. And in Tokyo transportation is cheap. Taxis only cost 710 yen per kilometer and all trains stop 12h30 at night.
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by abracat1 15y ago
I was refering to a diet full of delicious red meat, bacon and carbohydrates. The diet is popular in many countries and I love it too. But it is a simple fact that such a diet is impossible in Japan. The price of meat, especially red meat i
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by abracat1 15y ago
> In many countries it's not considered shameful to live with your parents while you're single. I can completely understand that you want to live with your parents when you are studing (or a young working adult). But 28years+ is becomin
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by abracat1 15y ago
It is easy and popular for westerners to romantacize Japan - but it has serious and structural problems. When analyzed on its own (instead of comparing it to the USA) it becomes readily apparent. I will just say a few observations which sho
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by abracat1 15y ago
> That is most certainly not current US immigration policy, which explicitly provides priority for family connections. That is true. But the person who broughthif family over, how did he get here? Because he is skilled and already at th
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by abracat1 15y ago
Part 2. Your article also states that: > However, it is a far from perfect analogue. Bryan Caplan cites evidence that immigrants to the U.S. commit crimes at a far lower rate than U.S. citizens. So? This is expected! It shows the succes
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by abracat1 15y ago
Usage of the word Apartheid in your link is bogus! The word Apartheid is only used in order to evoke white guilt. It is argued that because of Apartheid, blacks were poorer (even if blavk poverty increased significantly after '94, that is n
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by abracat1 15y ago
To come back to my point - after '94 illegal immigration significantly increased. There are several reasons for this, e.g. The military was no longer responsible for enforcing the border (which fell to the police), liberal policies wrt immi
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by abracat1 15y ago
Hmmm... That is a really bad comparison. I suspect that you misused the word Apartheid because of its emotional connetation (which circumvents any rational reasoning that a non-emotional argument might entail). Apartheid was concerned with
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by abracat1 15y ago
> You should learn something: that variance within groups is far larger than variance in the averages of groups; and thus race and culture are poor signals for use in judgement. To protect against this bias, we do hold to equality acros