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Have you considered contracting work?
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How long have you lived there?
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Their children will be at best “hafu” (“Half”), a category all its own, and one not especially well regarded: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/asia/japan-mixed-roots-hafu-d...
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Yeah, but having 2.1 kids in an apartment that’s 66m2 is annoying as hell. Especially when you work all the time.
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“Lack of manpower” is an understatement. The bubonic plague killed 75-200m people, vastly increasing the cost of labor and spurring technology revolutions in agriculture.
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It’s not defeatist, it’s demography. The replacement rate for a country is 2.1. Japan’s birth rate is 1.3. Japan fell below replacement rate in 1975 . Their economy faltered in the 90s and has never recovered. Add in massive urbanization a
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Xenophobia is a fear or distrust of foreigners. You can accept, and work to integrate, foreigners into your society while rejecting bad ideas. That’s the basis of modern multicultural democracies.
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People who generally oppose multiculturalism often assume their ideological opponent is an ardent adherent to cultural relativism, with their definition of cultural relativism being a very uncharitable one: i.e., “no culture is better than
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Singapore is a very interesting case because its multiculturalism is less organic and more top down. The upside? There are no slums. The downside? There is very little individual freedom, and punishment for crimes can be brutal. Like caning
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Absolutely. Superior is a term that only makes sense in the context of an individual’s or group’s values, and how strongly those values are held in relation to the downsides of the individual culture in that culture’s context. Added to that
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UNICEF has initiatives in Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Sudan and Tanzania to end open defecation. High levels of open defecation are linked to high child mortality, poor nutrition, poverty, and large dispa
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When I say bullying and exclusion, I’m speaking specifically about the practice as it exists in Japanese society. This practice has produced an entire lost generation called “Hikkikomori,” Japanese people who were excluded from Japanese soc
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>Can people in other societies have a say about what they want in the matter in their own society, or your also prefer the norms of you and your society imposed upon everybody? Of course people in other societies should have a say in wha
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The US is astoundingly good at re-litigating, on a local level, things that were “decided long ago.” Florida has now decided that slavery had some upsides for Black people.
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Culture is merely people and ideas. Good ideas should be preserved and remixed. Bad ideas should be relegated to the dustbin of history. Promoting bullying and exclusion —- part and parcel to indigenous Japanese society — is a bad idea that
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I happen to prefer dynamic, multicultural societies over static, xenophobic ones. From that I’m sure you can guess my own nationality.
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Your statement is true for basically every country… except the US.
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Japan is a totalitarian state, with the enforcement run by individuals. If you violate social norms, including not looking or sounding Japanese enough, you will be excluded. You could become naturalized there, but you will never be Japanese
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The second Iraq war started when I was in junior high, that’s when I stopped standing for the pledge and kept it through high school. There was a big discussion about whether students could be reprimanded, but ultimately I think it was deci
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> I feel like conventional corporate success depends more on your relationships and politics than the quality of your code and writing. It's really hard to build quality relationships and see the politics and status games people are
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Mastodon is just a protocol (ActivityPub). It doesn’t have problems on its own, any more than POTS telephones had a drug dealing problem, or WiFi has a harassment problem. The Verge should be ashamed for writing such a poor headline.
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The goal is to have it mandated to access the internet. Far more people access the internet than fly on airplanes.
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(2022). Someone tell me how the Germans who work at this company can stomach it… they are a mere single generation removed from half the country being controlled by a totalitarian surveillance police force. The Stasi could only dream.
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Saudi Arabia is doomed because they have an extractive economy dependent on a globalized trade system that is unraveling due to American neglect. Not because of climate change. Climate change is real. But it isn’t the cause of every problem
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Weather is not climate. Phoenix being 113F for 3 weeks no more proves climate change than an extra snowy Twin Cities winter disproves it. Moreover: Saudi Arabia exists.
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This article doesn’t mention what other countries do about this problem. As far as I know, the UK has a series of “sections” that allow voluntary and involuntary commitment. Do these “work”? Can anyone with some background knowledge of this
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TSA is jobs program. Never getting rolled back.
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The Amish have something to teach those of us who work in tech. Specifically, that it’s beneficial to take a look at new technology and decide whether it fits with how you want to live your life. There are many things about Amish culture th
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Can a Chinese person not use iMessage without iCloud? This is possible in the US. In fact, it’s the default.
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If everything you contribute to the product is tracked in Jira, you should consider your career trajectory. Managers are humans. They rely on a synthesis of data and social cues to form an opinion about how much to invest in your growth. As

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