! First, the old fogeys still run the country. "
Exactly , and they sometimes say the stupidest things , which adds to the western perception that the whole country is racist , when in fact , like I've already said , it exists mostly in the older folks .
" What percentage of the Japanese population are foreigners? "
2% .
" How are Koreans and the Ainu treated? "
It's getting better all the time ...
"Exactly , and they sometimes say the stupidest things"
Actually, they sometimes slip up and say in front of foreigners what they always say among themselves.
Because their worldview is so pervasively racist, and because they accept that as right and proper, they sometimes simply fail to understand that something they accept as a universal truth will be offensive to the subhumans. They're really surprised on such occasions, because they intended to hide all that, but just never thought that (whatever they said) was one of the things that needed to be hidden.