Biden macht „Fremdenfeindlichkeit“ für die wirtschaftlichen Probleme Chinas, Japans und Indiens verantwortlich

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1. I saw Japanese people showing much reaction to his remark on Japanese webs.

2. I mean if I was Japanese living in Tokyo and I saw what New York looks like nowadays I’d be xenophobic too.

3. I can’t say much about China and Japan but as an Indian I could list probably hundred other issues for our economic woes before Xenophobia lol. India is not nearly as homogeneous of a society as people seem to think.

4. Piss off 3 billion people speed run any %

5. Social engineering is not easy, just look at China going from having too many babies to having way too few in just one generation. And correcting low nativity with immigration also leads to problems, but at some point you have little choice.

   Regarding India it looks a bit different, but maybe he meant protectionism more than actual xenophobia in that case.

6. Don’t forget South Korea.

7. No, overpopulation is India’s problem, immigration is the opposite of what we need

8. Poland is doing better than much of the EU and that country has been as “xenophobic” as possible in trying to minimize immigration to Poland when it comes to non-Europeans.
   Also Biden seems to ignore that Japan does get plenty of temporary migrants these days especially from South East Asia . Even South Korea, like 10% of the population is made up of migrants, the thing is, Neither Japan nor South Korea seek permanent demographic change by giving the migrants the option of citizenship.
   Like the Middle East, you go to those countries, make your riches(by the standards of your home country) then leave. Most migrants actually have no problem with this arrangement.

9. We literally have millions migrating within the country every day who may as well be from different countries.
   Xenophobia ain’t it.
   India is nowhere close to being at a point where immigration is a talking point beyond “bangladeshi muslim voters” which is about as nuanced as mexicans jumping over walls and taking our jobs. Our economic woes come from different stressors.

10. China and India have huge populations. For them to match US immigration rates they’d need 10 million people moving to their countries annually. The whole world couldn’t match that level of demand, hence immigration to counter demographic decline isn’t even a plausible alternative for those two countries.

11. In terms of China and India, adding to their 1+ billion population seems like a bad idea.
    Also considering the US displaced 40+ million Muslims in the Middle East during their “war on terror”, I guess he wants others to clean up the mess.

12. Indeed, he also states Russia is xenophobic.

13. In other words, Biden wants these countries to take more immigrants and asylum seekers.

14. You tell them Biden! Just look at Canada! Each of these nations should be emulating that beacon of diversity! /s

15. … countries that have experienced high immigration in the recent years (like Nordic countries) saw a massive spike in crime.
    While immigration gives you cheap workforce and the ability to sustain GDP, it also comes with a lot of downsides that Japan may not want to deal with.
    Japan has always been a homogenous insular culture and they already struggle with how rude tourists are, they live in a safe society and maybe they don’t want to face the same issues US cities and European countries are facing.

16. I’m really tired of US presidents giving unsolicited moral lectures to other countries. Especially our allies.

    Trump can’t bitch about NATO paying their fair share but Biden can call Japanese people racist. Explain how that works. I’m sure China and Japan won’t play videos of Asian Americans getting attacked recently.

17. Buden admin try not to friendly fire on Japan challenge(100% impossible!)

18. Has nothing to do with the fact their currencies are in the shitter, right? Lmao

19. Japanese police instructed to harass foreigners. Citizenship access for foreigners impossibly high to attain. Marrying into the country affords you barely any more rights. Loan rates sky high for foreigners even if they have the best credit. I could go on.

    They may say they don’t hate foreigners. But structurally their laws and policies say they don’t want them around or investing in the country.

20. As someone who has lived in Japan for years, I do think the West should follow Japan’s strict immigration policy. 

21. Japan absolutely hates foreigners. That is an irrefutable fact. They’re probably one of if not the most racist country in the world.

22. I feel this especially is going to apply to Japan and South Korea. They have a demographic crisis. They aren’t having enough babies, yet they can’t make up for it with immigration. China has a similar issue but they also have the self-inflicted wound of the one child policy.

23. I’m an immigrant to Japan from America and have lived here for ten years

    I love it here but I’m also white so people aren’t really racist to me.

    The worst I get is “when are you going back to your country?” but if you let shit like that bother you then you’ll never last here

    Also the vast majority of westerners do eventually leave so it’s a pretty fair assumption lol

24. Meanwhile here in Canada we blame our economic woes on the opposite.

25. says the guy who’s $34 TRILLION in debt, lmao

26. Wild how this could apply to Japan. Just spent 3 weeks there and despite a negligent effort on my part to learn the most basic phrases of the language everyone was so polite and friendly.

27. Japanese people really aren’t that xenophobic. Most of the things foreigners find xenophobic have another explanation in my experience, such as reserve only restaurants on a holiday turning them back or apartments denying them because they’ve had flight risks in the past. Lived there 5 years so this seems pretty ignorant by Biden especially considering they’re opening up to about a million immigrants 

28. sez him

29. Works pretty good for highly touted European countries

30. Xenomorphs lives matter!

31. Having just been to China, India, Japan, and a dozen other countries in the region I’ve mostly been amazed at how much more Westernized and specifically like the US everywhere is.

    Talking to regular people they have the same problems and stresses – especially financial – as I do.

    I will say I didn’t have an appreciation for what colonization, war – both internal and external, and trade policies do for generations.

    I didn’t see a lot of Xenophobia. More like things are to a point where people from anywhere can live anywhere.

    But you’d need a reason.

    Never mind people now wanting you there.

    These places are trying to retain their own talent in many instances. Seems like it’s another step to get people to come to you in that situation.

    Unless he means “you need to find poorer people to exploit” like we do in the good old U S of A. Then I agree that’s key to economic success as far as I know.

32. I don’t see what economics have to do with being afraid of xenomorphs

33. SE Asia has a lot of historical beef with one another. As much as regional immigration would make sense for almost everyone, there are hundreds of years of bad blood to sift though.