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kleinbl00  ·  3635 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Japan’s sexual apathy

To add:

Japan is so homogeneously racist that your family can live there for generations and never gain citizenship. There's an entire subculture of Japanese that are considered the lowest of the low because their parents were born overseas in China during the occupation of WWII.

To full-blooded Japanese parents.

Yamato Japanese account for 86% of Japan's population. 1.6% of Japan's population is ethnically not Japanese. Go to Japan, one in 200 people you meet will be Chinese. One in a thousand will be from the Philippines.

Japanese law fully permits Japanese citizens from refusing to hire someone from Okinawa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan





swedishbadgergirl  ·  3634 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that is so fucked up. I read a lot about the Japanese for a while and... God I would not deal with living there well.

kleinbl00  ·  3634 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We call that "the system working."