Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by hocuspocus on Saturday June 09, 2018 @04:52PM (#17274925)

The kind of xenophobia you'll be facing is pretty tame compared to most other parts of the world though. Especially if you're a skilled worker from a developed country.

Japanese are indifferent and non-confrontational. If you don't care about what people think and don't try to integrate too hard, life isn't bad.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by zeth___ on Saturday June 09, 2018 @06:30PM (#17275378)

Compared to where?

Most of the world is China, India and Africa.

The rest of the developed world is vastly better than Japan when it comes to treating immigrants better.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by craftyguy on Saturday June 09, 2018 @06:33PM (#17275390)

Here in the US, there are quite a few folks who are openly hostile towards immigrants.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by hueving on Saturday June 09, 2018 @06:44PM (#17275428)

In my experience there is a lot of hostility to undocumented immigrants (a.k.a illegal immigrants) but very little to people to immigrate legitimately.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by tomcam on Saturday June 09, 2018 @07:18PM (#17275536)

Where?

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by adventured on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:23AM (#17276505)

US population: ~60% white non-hispanic, 20% hispanic, 14% black, 6% Asian

Japan: 98.5% ethnic Japanese

Immigrants in the US + their US born children = 27% of the population, roughly 86 million people, or equal to 3/4 the size of Japan's entire population. Such hostility.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by xref on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:17AM (#17276866)

I'm unclear how these numbers prove there isn't hostility towards immigrants in the US?

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by Semirhage on Saturday June 09, 2018 @06:38PM (#17275403)

The experience of being a westerner in China is much worse than in Japan IME. I can’t speak for India or the continent of Africa, but in the latter case I’d guess that it varies widely by country.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by icelancer on Saturday June 09, 2018 @09:34PM (#17275956)

I've enjoyed my time in China much more than Japan as a "westerner," and I'm Japanese-American.

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Re:Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its... by Semirhage on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:54PM (#17279261)

I'm Japanese-American.

I suspect that’s the key right there. From friends who are the same, I get the impression that in Japan if you’re of Japanese descent the expectations had of you are very different than the typical gaikokujin.

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