Setting aside the - grave - misunderstanding: Why are humans like this? “Oh no, all these black people will come here!” (slurs removed for legibility) Has any Japanese city had an influx of african migrants? Has any place in the world ever been actively “flooded” with migrants of a vastly different culture in recent history? If it sounds stupid and unbelievable, why do so many people choose to just believe instead of checking the facts?
Because people want easy answers to their issues and blaming all your problems on some far away, different people or even a local minority that you never actually see is a nice and easy escape route that populists world wide use. It also helps that racism is deeply embedded into many cultures.
I think those “friendship city” stuff is dumb in basically all cases.
I have never seen anything happen or be done because of that friendship, it’s all just declarations and signposts and BS job work for politicians.
I would be happy to be proven wrong though, if you have an example.
When I was young, there were regular exchange trips between my home town and the partner town in France. That was quite nice and at the time, the memories of the war were still pretty fresh. So i wouldn’t say, they’re always totally useless.
Oh you’re telling me a nearly 100% culturally and ethnically homogenous country is gasp not meshing well with government sponsored immigration programs? Color me surprised.
Japan is notoriously “xenophobic” (I don’t necessarily think xenophobia is a bad thing but that’s a different discussion) towards even tourists sometimes despite their economy relying heavily, in part, on tourism.
I can’t imagine they already worked-to-the-bone crowded populations of Japanese cities would be too excited to have an influx of people willing to work for the cold, soulless corporations for less money.
Imo, slow trickle immigration is ideal, it lets immigrants assimilate/integrate into the culture/country they have decided to move to. Personally, I would never think about visiting a country, let alone immigrating, without becoming intimately familiar with cultural norms, their language, and the interests/hobbies/pasttimes of the “native population”.
Sounds like a mess.
