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Re:The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train by 55555 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:58AM (#21341755)
> Eg, “[Because he’s not white] he’s never going to be American. If that bugs him, why not go home? Nobody is making him stay in America.”

No, because America is not a racially homogenous society. Japan mostly is. Japan's residents are 98% japanese and most of the other 2% are other asians.

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Re:The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train by josephg on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:13AM (#21341819)
Hm, I’m doing a gut check on that by swapping in another western country which is more racially homogeneous than the US to see how I feel about it:

> “[Because he’s not white] he’s never going to be Norwegian. If that bugs him, why not go home? Nobody is making him stay in Norway.”

My ears still flag that as racist.

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