• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    6 months ago

    The president made the remark while arguing that Japan, along with Russia and China, would perform better economically if the countries embraced immigration more.

    Oh, well that’s true enough. Japan is crazy anti immigration despite that being a solution to their low birth rate.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    52
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    6 months ago

    Immigration absolutely helps the US economy, because it parasitically siphons all the skilled workers out of other countries that it underdevelops and hoards their labor for itself.

    People think remittances help underdeveloped countries, but labor is the superior of capital, losing that skilled labor is never worth the paltry sums that get sent back home. It’s just another shape that imperialism takes.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        6 months ago

        Don’t misunderstand, the people moving to the US are blameless. Imperialism works by siphoning up all of the skilled labor around the world for itself in order to make life better for people within the imperial core, and this is part of how the imperial nations underdevelop other countries. People get educations in their home countries (often at the government’s expense) and then they take that education out of the country to put it to use in the US (or France or Canada etc). They’re just going where the jobs are, though, that’s not their fault at all.

    • Shard@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      Except where there’s little opportunity to utilize the highly skilled labor. They are going abroad anyway to find job opportunities befitting of their skill set and the highest bidder. Doesn’t matter if the US or EU took them, they’re leaving because the local opportunity doesn’t exist.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        6 months ago

        Yes, and the people who could develop that local opportunity aren’t there. They all leave as soon as they can.

        That’s why I said they’re underdeveloped countries. They’re not “developing” in truth, but are being kept from becoming developed. How do you think that happens? In part it happens because of the IMF giving predatory loans and then imposing austerity on the people when the government can’t pay their loans back, but it also happens because labor is the superior of capital and these countries are losing skilled labor.

        I am not blaming them for leaving their countries. I am blaming underdevelopment, which is a product of imperialism.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    44
    ·
    6 months ago

    I can’t speak to Russia or China, but Japan has a history of xenophobia going back CENTURIES. It’s not exactly a newsflash.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    China xenophobic? I don’t think Biden knows what the word means. The oldest mosque outside of the Middle East is in China of all places built in 627 CE, and still standing.

    What happened to the mosques in Spain and Occupied Palestine? Turned into bars and chicken coops.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    Who cares what this genocidal fascist has to say. The sooner he kicks it the better it will be for everyone else.

  • N o v a Ayashi 永遠の@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    6 months ago

    As neat as Japan sounds and as much as I’d like to be there, I mean, he’s not wrong

    I watch YouTubers who moved to and live there talk about how they’re just indefinitely treated like a tourist

        • Carrolade@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          6 months ago

          most?

          Don’t get out much, eh? Xenophobia is present all throughout the world in different amounts, it has its roots in any insulated human nature. The US is far from the worst on Earth though, despite whatever cherry-picked propaganda one may read. We just do have some, particularly in more interior regions.

            • Carrolade@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              6 months ago

              Yeah I’m not clicking on that. Assuming it’s about the ICE facility allegations from 2020 though. And yeah, Trump is a monster. Make no mistake, the US could go fully fascist if we let it, there are certainly xenophobic elements within the country. It’s not a majority opinion though.

              • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                6 months ago

                “majority opinion” doesn’t matter, government actions do. Regardless of the majority opinion, what has occurred and other things that continue to occur are irreparably destroying lives and killing people.

                • Carrolade@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  If all government actions from any point in time are what matter, and not the democratic opinions of the populace or the actions of the current government, then I’d say the worst was Mongolia under Genghis Khan.

              • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                6 months ago

                Amerika already is full-fascist; if you can’t tell, you haven’t been paying attention. Must be comfortable where you’re at.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          6 months ago

          Americans are so racist they don’t even realize how racist they are, and get mad when you point it out.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          6 months ago

          It’s really not. Not to sound like I’m erasing racism in the US, but the reason you hear about it is because it’s tested and contested so much. It’s almost always way worse in more homogeneous nations.

  • nucleative@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    6 months ago

    Pretty much every country in the world where citizenship, nationality, and ethnicity are the same thing you find xenophobia.

  • okamiueru@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    6 months ago

    FFS. In a site where “news” = “stupid shit that happens in the US”, can something named “world news” exclude the US? Please? Does it need to be called “non US news”?

    I know other countries are mentioned here. But it’s just the ramblings of dementia.