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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by diggan on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:39PM (#44537499)
As I understand it, it'd be illegal even with just "No Canadians" because that's a "national origin" right? Instead you'd post "No Canadian Residents" and you'd be in the clear :)
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by BobaFloutist on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:38PM (#44538253)
But no Canadian residents is equivalent to what I put above, and the actual impact of the discrimination is the problem, not the wording.
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by diggan on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:18AM (#44540902)
> But no Canadian residents is equivalent to what I put above

No? "No Canadians" is ambiguous enough that it could mean citizenship, residency, country you were born in, country you identify most with and so on.

"Canadian Residents" isn't ambiguous (you either have residency or not), and also doesn't seem to be protected at all, only national origin is.

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