Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
by sisosooss on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:39PM
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> I feel a similar perplexity about many people in the USA making loud complaints about cultural adulteration
Because we had laws in place to prevent this but they were removed. Immigration is almost always bad for the natives but good for a few elites at the top. Mass immigration in the US plays a large part in the shrinking middle class and growing wealth gap.
I don’t know why you commit 2 paragraphs to discussing people being surprised when that has nothing to do with the recent demographic changes. They’re entirely policy issues.
> Some commentators object with an absolute straight face to hearing so many people speaking Spanish in cities with names like Los Angeles
Because for objectives we care about (safety, affordability, community) it was better when there were less Spanish speaking people.
Because we had laws in place to prevent this but they were removed. Immigration is almost always bad for the natives but good for a few elites at the top. Mass immigration in the US plays a large part in the shrinking middle class and growing wealth gap.
I don’t know why you commit 2 paragraphs to discussing people being surprised when that has nothing to do with the recent demographic changes. They’re entirely policy issues.
> Some commentators object with an absolute straight face to hearing so many people speaking Spanish in cities with names like Los Angeles
Because for objectives we care about (safety, affordability, community) it was better when there were less Spanish speaking people.