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A lot of words in this article in order to make a very weak argument. I assume he started writing before he started researching.

From wikipedia:

> Chinese people in Japan are the largest foreign minorities in Japan. They comprise 0.64% of Japan's population.

So the largest ethnic groups in japan which aren't Japanese all comprise a percentage of the population measured in tenths of a single percent, at the most.

Now let's look at The United States:

> Non-Hispanic white - 60.1%

> Hispanic and Latino (of any race) - 18.5%

> Black or African American - 13.4%

> Asian - 5.9%

> [continued]

Ethnicity aside, what about same-generation heritage/place of birth (immigrants)?

> There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for 5.4% of the total U.S. population.

Japan's population is roughly 2% immigrants.

Obviously, for almost all people who aren't racists, having a racially pure ethnostate isn't important. But Japan is pretty close to one, and The United States is a very diverse place.

I don't know what the point of this article is. This is the kind of article where halfway through writing it you realize you're actually wrong and you stop writing.




Author also kinda goes in a circle by saying “just because they’re more Asian doesn’t mean they’re Japanese!!” and then pointing out that Korean Japanese blend right in and nobody’s the wiser, but a half-black Japanese is a Big Freakin’ Deal there. It’s a weird and poorly argued article for sure


> Chinese people in Japan are the largest foreign minorities in Japan. They comprise 0.64% of Japan's population.

Does that mean what we think it means, though? Does that include people of Chinese descent who are Japanese citizens (who, as the author points out, are considered "Japanese" for statistical purposes), or (as I suspect) it only includes non-citizen Chinese people?


> Does that include people of Chinese descent who are Japanese citizens.

Yes. It does not include non-Japanese passport holding Chinese.




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