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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (10 children)

That's not exactly true. They're fine with you being their temporarily, even for a few years. Try to raise a family there and that consideration goes away.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Try to raise a family there

That's exactly what I've been doing for about 20 years as a matter of fact. No real trouble whatsoever myself, but I can't even count the number of times now I've seen people give my Chinese wife shit and then fumble all over themselves when I (an American) walk up and introduce myself. One old guy at a ramen shop even had the balls to try to explain how much better western and Japanese girls are, while she was sitting right next to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Question: but how can they tell she's not Japanese (I'm assuming she speaks Japanese)? E.g. many Europeans could pass as being from anywhere in the Americas+Europe as long as they don't say anything and dress like a local. Are they that sensitive to facial structure differences?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

chinese, japanese, koreans, and orher asians have different facial features and are typically easily distinguishable

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