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Re:Why Americans Work So Much Despite Keynes's Prediction by lmm on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:57AM (#10879875)
Japan has extreme ghettoization of immigrants; most landlords will simply refuse to rent to foreigners.
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Re:Why Americans Work So Much Despite Keynes's Prediction by jacobolus on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:15AM (#10879949)
Sure. I don’t mean that Americans are as a rule more racist than Japanese, or anything like that.

What I mean is, Japan didn’t design its whole large-scale metropolitan plan around racial segregation, the way many places in America did.

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