Posted on 02/28/2021 5:40:46 AM PST by BobL
Data released this week from the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education released showed that 44.6% of Tokyo’s 177 full-time high schools request “real hair certificates.” Students with hair that don’t adhere to the “straight and black” standard are asked to submit proof that their hair is natural.
Some schools reportedly ask for childhood photos as evidence. The certificates must also be signed by a guardian.
In filing this form, schools can “prevent any misunderstanding about a student’s natural hair,” the Tokyo board stated.
Japan’s school rules have repeatedly come under fire for being too strict, with guidelines often cited as infringing on a student’s freedom of expression. The color of students’ underwear and socks, eyebrow shape, and skirt length are among some of many restrictions. Hair dyeing and varied hair styles are also frowned upon.
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...and we'll see which society is still around in 50 years (ours or theirs), or even in 10 years, for that matter.
Why would there be any lower standard for “real genitalia?”
I actually liked the uniforms....but stockings were sooooooo expensive, it was a real hardship...and of course, they were absolutely unnecessary.
I can say with complete confidence that no inner city school in the US is considering such a policy.
Well.... The kids do like their anime.
“Well.... The kids do like their anime.”
Yea, I’m surprised that they haven’t dealt with that...yet.
Japan has a real aging problem, and it seems no one is particularly interested in having kids. Their society may be more stable, but societies still die if they don’t have younger generations to pass it onto.
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Upon further review, she decided to stay natural. The blue hair thing eventually faded away into the memory hole...
“Japan has a real aging problem, and it seems no one is particularly interested in having kids. Their society may be more stable, but societies still die if they don’t have younger generations to pass it onto.”
Agree, that is a big problem, and most of the West isn’t much better off, when you back out immigration (and the kids of immigrants). It sucks to see, and there are ways to deal with it, but they’re big steps* and no country, so far, has done enough in that direction.
Other than Eastern Europe, the West has chosen to dilute their societies and cultures through immigration, while Japan refuses to do that, and prefers taking the hit on population. That’s why they’ll still be around in 50 years, assuming that they can hold off China (albeit with less people), whereas the West, in its present form, will be gone.
*basically paying women to have babies and raise them, rather than work, as we’ve shown that you can’t have both together and even maintain replacement population.
“Upon further review, she decided to stay natural.”
Nice, nothing to gain from that garbage.
I wouldn't be so hip about comparing societies without peeking into the subcultures and vices of each.
Top down government that places conformity above everything often doesn't produce the innovators of the future or today.
Is there an army of lawyers ready to sue the schools for violating the students’ “Civil and Human Rights?” - as there would be in the U.S.?
Wonder if there are forced lessons on Japan’s “history of oppression, slavery, homophobia and Xenophobia?”
If the U.S. were to adopt such a policy, it would be labeled “nativist” and “racist” in a nanosecond, yet it’s what we need to survive. Due to moral panic about the environment, too many Europeans have given up having children and even financial payouts haven’t worked to boost their population by much. The only countries that do see a birthrate rise are those Central and Eastern European countries that don’t denigrate religion.
“Japan is dying faster than we are. They are a decadent group of people who were slicing our heads off a few years ago.”
The second part is certainly part of their history - but we’ll see regarding the first part, especially after a few more years of open borders here.
Do black patent leather shoes really reflect up?
I understand the rule. In Jr high we got a new rule that boys must wear belts with their pants, mostly jeans
The response was for many of us to wear suspenders.
The question I have is what was the specific hair problem that provoked the new rule
“Is there an army of lawyers ready to sue the schools for violating the students’ “Civil and Human Rights?” - as there would be in the U.S.?”
While Japan has more ‘history’ to account for than the US, and certainly more recent history (as in WW2), they also figure that engaging in the cultural-suicide that the West is undergoing isn’t going to change their past.
So to answer your question: Nope - they have little or no guilt about their past, and so they don’t have the equivalent of a Democrat Party, nor their army of lawyers and judges to destroy their country from within.
My take concerning Japan. Way far too over-populated. Vast regimentation of society to maintain order. With fewer people in the future there will be more elbow room. With more elbow room there will be increased opportunities for freedom and self expression.
“If the U.S. were to adopt such a policy, it would be labeled “nativist” and “racist” in a nanosecond, yet it’s what we need to survive.”
Absolutely!
“Due to moral panic about the environment, too many Europeans have given up having children and even financial payouts haven’t worked to boost their population by much.”
While the payments haven’t been close to what’s needed, the real problem is that they allow women to be professionals in the workplace. While one can certainly say that fairness requires them to be allowed to work, it cannot be denied (at least from everything I’ve seen) that women who do work full-time (or more than full) tend to have far few kids than those who don’t.
“The only countries that do see a birthrate rise are those Central and Eastern European countries that don’t denigrate religion.”
Agree - religion, among other things, teaches one that they’re not the center of the universe and that there are things more important, such continuing society.
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