Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by sonnyblarney on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:12AM (#18559003)

"you never really feel welcomed as a Japanese."

Well, maybe because you're not Japanese?

A different question is: "Would you feel welcome"

I would consider it weirdly arrogant to go to Japan and then have them ever accept me as 'Japanese'. I would hope that thy are respectful to me, and treat me well, and maybe even 'as a Japanese' but not actually 'Japanese', because - I'm not!

There's a big difference I think between 'rights' and 'cultural attribution', we mix them up a lot in the West.

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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by Nadya on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:57PM (#18574240)

You misunderstood. You need to look Japanese. It doesn't matter if you actually are Japanese.

This video pokes some fun at it, taken to an extreme for comedic purpose of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLt5qSm9U80

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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by sonnyblarney on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:17PM (#18574332)

I understood well enough.

You're assuming that those White/Black people were Japanese because they were born and raised Japanese.

From a certain perspective, that would not be correct.

Many people (most of the world) view race as fundamentally intertwined with ethnicity, ergo, the white folks in the video may never really be considered 'fully Japanese', although surely they are mostly accommodated as such.

'American' really isn't an ethnicity so 'new world' people often have difficulty grasping how others might view ethnicity.

As longs as people are treated reasonably, frankly, I don't care.

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