Leitartikel von Mainichi Shinbun: „Warum fühlen wir uns so sehr von Fremdenfeindlichkeit angezogen?“

Of course there’s an obvious answer, politics! The best way to score points for any politician is to blame foreigners. Hitler did it and riled up an entire nation while at it. Heck, I remember my short stint as an exchange student in Cape Town, South Africa during the height of xenophobic clashes, where I learned something I wouldn’t even wish upon anyone, called „necklacing“ being done by the locals. The ANC was actively stoking xenophobia because they had just lost the Western Cape province to Democratic Alliance for the very first time since independence. It was well known that a lot of prominent politicians were amplifying the rhetoric out of fear that they would lose the next elections. It’s always politics and the fastest way to points while avoiding the ineptitude, and rampant corruption of elected officials.

Countries aren’t just economic zones.

Communities, cities, and countries have identities/cultures that people want to preserve, which is increasingly in opposition to the neoliberal monochrome globalist…. „Agenda“? Plan? I don’t really know what it is.  But there is a very apparent goal among most OECD governments, various NGOs, and political organizations to advance toward a global monoculture in which no discernible differences between countries exist. Any resistance to this trend is perceived as regressive, „far right“, xenophobic, etc.

I’m not particularly interested in living in a Japan that has 30% foreign residents. This isn’t xenophobia. It’s a desire for this country to continue to have a unique identity and collection of values that is specific to Japan. In fact, I would argue that the demand for Japan to further internationalize is a jingoistic and imperialistic position, which imposes anglosphere „diversity“ on a country that doesn’t share that value.