[greenwolf]

The Japanese go farther and designate occupations for the lesser races. No pure blood can be an undertaker, plumber, garbage collector, etc.-- those jobs are for the servant races.

It seems to work. I mean, nobody's ever yet managed to stage any sort of a successful demographic coupe against the Japanese in their own land and they've apparently had 13,000 years to try it. It'd be nice if we could say the same thing...

[expat_panama]

"a successful demographic coupe against the Japanese"

IM very HO their culture is neither that old or that strong, but it is that monolithic.  A Japanese reporter was quoted in the Economist about how he was amazed when he was asked for directions at an airport in New York.  He said that no Japanese would ever ask a Caucasian directions at a Japanese airport.

Related topic -re post no. 7.

[blam]

A picture of an Ainu taken in the 19th century.

[cyborg]

It'd be nice if we could say the same thing...

** I take it you aren't for the Bush plan.

[blam]

" I mean, nobody's ever yet managed to stage any sort of a successful demographic coupe against the Japanese in their own land and they've apparently had 13,000 years to try it. It'd be nice if we could say the same thing..."

Depends on who you call 'the Japanese.' Seems (to me) like the Asians that now call themselves the Japanese have done a pretty good job of 'displacing' the original (Ainu/Jomon) Japanese people, huh?

I knew a female engineer from Okinawa who said that the Japanese discriminated against them terribly. She 'looked' Asian to me except that she had real curly hair.

[wvobiwan]

My demographic coupe goes 185!

[Cronos]

It seems to work. I mean, nobody's ever yet managed to stage any sort of a successful demographic coupe against the Japanese in their own land and they've apparently had 13,000 years to try it

Actually I think the present-day Japanese only came over apprx 2500 years ago, from Korea (I may be wrong)

[sinanju]

I gather you go along with the policy of their ancient caste system of labor designation. Officially abolished with the samurai caste in the Meiji restoration, the caste system lives on. Not to mention the denigration of anyone who is even one fourteenth korean, etc.