Re: the latter, true in Japan. Less so here. Japan has cabbage picking robots. U.S. has migrant labor.
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Ironically, though, you seem to have just provided a defense for Japanese-style immigration policies.
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Real estate is quite affordable in most of Japan as well, including large parts of Tokyo. Crime is low, no US-style 'bad neighborhoods'.
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Japan itself is perhaps the best proof that socioeconomic modernization and acquisition of western tech never required being colonized.
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Japan only became imperialist starting in 1876, Europeans committed centuries of rape and genocide compared to Japan's 69.
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Bonus points: how long did Arabs?
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Since 620s. Due to widespread slavery and skin color discrimination against Africans I view Islam as bad as Western Christendom historically
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History is rough, by essence. Civilizations are differentiated more by competence than by cruelty.
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