[ SECRET POST #2751 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2751 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've read some stuff suggesting that Japan is not as homogenous as they claim - it's basically all a cover for Japanese imperialism. They like to claim that Okinawans and Ainu are Japanese, when really they've gone through quite a bit of forced naturalization (Okinawa used to be its own country while Hokkaido was populated by the indigenous Ainu. Neither of these people spoke Japanese). The Ainu language is basically dead and Okinawan is on its last legs (only old people speak it).

And let's not even get into Zainichi Koreans (who often change their names and pretend to be ethnically Japanese to avoid discrimination), or the amount of illegal Chinese immigrants in Japan. Walk into any fast food restaurant in Tokyo and half the staff are Chinese. What percent of Japanese people are really completely "Japanese"?

It's so hard to count minorities in Japan because they've been totally erased by over a hundred years of Japanese imperialism.

On the other hand, I remember talking to a Japanese dude about First Nations, and he asked why they're in such dire straits in Canada (poverty, etc.) when the Ainu in Hokkaido aren't suffering that way. Of course the reasons are complex, but basically it's because they haven't been assimilated the way Ainu were in Japan. I mean, there aren't any Ainu speaking their own languages and living on traditional land anymore. Not to say that most Natives in Canada are, but the culture isn't dead as a horse like it is in Japan. Ainu don't even have any land. So is it better to be 100% assimilated but comfortably middle class, or is it better to be poor/targets of discrimination but completely lose your cultural and ethnic identity? It's something interesting to think about, anyway...