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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m not an expert on Japanese culture, but I don’t think they have the “melting pot” cultural identity that America has had historically.
Comment on Cool Japan 🌸
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m not an expert on Japanese culture, but I don’t think they have the “melting pot” cultural identity that America has had historically.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 month ago
So it’s not xenophobia if you’ve been consistently xenophobic from the start.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Was it xenophobia for Algeria to reject French-speakers?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Are you seriously trying to say colonialism and tourism are the same thing
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Xenophobia: the fear or intolerance of foreigners
No, tourism and colonialism aren’t the same thing, but in this context it doesn’t matter.
Besides, which one are we talking about in Japan? We could call it tourism, but don’t you know they’ve literally been occupied by the US military since WWII?
And if you want a strictly tourism example, then how about Barcelona? How is this any different from a giant mural that says “Tourists go home”? And least in Japan they don’t spray gaijin with water guns…