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Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

206 points · 623 comments · mikhael

  1. skeledrew · · focus · HN ↗
    Doesn't seem they're really aware that they're something of an endangered "species". Although technically they'd still be endangered even if they open up seriously, as then there's heightened possibility of bloodline dilution. I wonder sometimes if that'd be a good or bad thing in the long run: loss of that which makes them pretty unique vs blending more with the world.
    1. walrus01 · · focus · HN ↗
      > heightened possibility of bloodline dilution

      In my experience, born/raised in Japan, domestic Japanese people have a very different reaction to local "Hafu" people where one of their parents is a Caucasian person from the US, UK, AU, NZ (or similar), vs "other" countries.

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;H%C4%81fu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;H%C4%81fu

      1. skeledrew · · focus · HN ↗
        Colonial mentalities carry on for decades.
        1. Macha · · focus · HN ↗
          I mean, Japan&#x27;s experience with colonialism was decidedly on the colonist side: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperit...
          1. walrus01 · · focus · HN ↗
            That, and things like being an enthusiastic and early customer of British industrial&#x2F;steam powered equipment in what we would broadly call the Victorian era. The early Japanese pre-dreadnought and dreadnought class battleships, for instance, were a clear descendent of British (or competing French) designs. Railway stuff as well. Lots of things that weren&#x27;t British origin were American.
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