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MeteoricBurst posted...

Not sure why someone would settle for that. You'd have to give up a lot of pride to be happy with being the "lesser of two evils". And no I'm not saying all them are like this but its certainly prevalent, because like people said the population is extremely homogenous.

Yup. Some years ago I listened to a BBC news documentary with one of their senior reporters, the Japanese correspondent. I believe she's Japanese/Korean and even she faced discrimination. They mocked her for eye shape and stuff whilst us outsiders probably can't tell stuff like that. So imagine having different skin tone. I think very slowly they are opening up to more foreigners. They don't really have a choice because they have a population crisis and desperately need immigration. Might be too little too late.

I think I watched that same doc, or a similar one on Youtube, and there are a bunch of them describing on Race/Ethnicity issues over there...even among other 'Asians' (Chinese, Koreans, etc). So even if some of us 'Westerners' can't tell the difference, they can among themselves.

Which is funny b/c on the other end of the Spectrum you come across alot of Japanese who absolutely love 'Western/Black' culture, such as Cars, Hip-Hop Music, etc. So I guess it's more of an 'Cultural Invasion' type thing when you actually go over there to visit/live/etc