Comments by "" (@MayaTheDecemberGirl) on "What's it like being Half Hispanic in Japan?" video.
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@homie3461 Generally, around the world there are two approaches to citizenship - one is so-called "ius sanguinis" (in Latin), meaning the citizenship by bloodline and the other is so-called "ius soli", meaning the citizenship by place of birth. So in the USA is "ius soli" system, and also in Canada and some countries in South America, like Brasil or Argentina. In European countries the main approach is "ius sanguinis" (with some rare exceptions, for instance when the parents of a child are not known or have no citizenship, and the child is born or found in a country). And allowing the double nationality is another thing. Actually, nowadays most of the countries, with some exceptions like Japan and few othe countries, allow having double citizenship.
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@homie3461 About "borrowing" something from Prussia, this was probably true in certain aspects, especially military, but regarding the second half of the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century (so in the times of Prussia, and later Nazi Germany). And we know how it all ended. So being influenced by Prussia (in terms of militarization of the country, expansion of the army, authoritarianism and strong nationalism, that were so characteristic for Prussia, and later Nazi Germany) was not a good idea - especially in the aspect of humanity - as history has shown and led to tragic times for millions of people. So choosing this path, it was probably one of the reasons they did during the II World War the same things to people as Germans did in that time. But after the II WW, so in the modern times, their "structure" was influenced by other countries, not by Germany that fortunately lost the war. So it doesn't seem really true to say that "modern structure" of Japan, in modern times, was borrowed from Prussia (as said above, only some aspects of "structure", before and during the II WW). And after all, Japan is an old, unique civilisation, with its own unique traditions and culture, so saying that their "modern structure" was based on Prussia example doesn't seem really right, or at least a big simplification out of context.
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@homie3461 I do not speculate and I know history quite well. And of course Prussian state is not the same as Hitler and Nazis, which was much later (and, as all know, was completely sick, insane ideology). But when You write about Prussia and modernization in the past taking into account this state as an example, You shouldn't mix various periods in history. An authoritarian, old state cannot be called an example for modern, nowadays states and their structure. And of course in Japan there were, during the II WW, no Nazi party (such as in Germany), and this is not what I meant. But when mentioning such states as Prussia, it is about militarization, authoritarianism, nationalism and so on. But this was before the II WW. Not after. And the real modern times were after the war. And for sure, I do not say that for instance colonialism of some states (Poland didn't have any colonies) and colonial leadership was anything good. But also definitely no one can say that there was anything good in the II WW - taking into account terrible genocide acts committed in that times, and death and tragedy of so many people.
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@homie3461 I do not think that such matters as constitution of a state or education are mundane. In fact, there are very important. And I've read about development of constitutionalism in the history, also about first Japanese written constitution, which was considered probably one of the first in Asia. By the way, Polish first written constitution (of 3 May 1791) was first in Europe and second in the world. But I think that what was considered modern in some time in the past and along with that time authoritarian, absolutist systems and different values, in different era (like in the times of first transition from feudal systems in XIXth century), cannot really be considered modern later, especially after the II WW. And as I said, I do not think of course that colonialism was good and justified at all. But also I definitely cannot agree that it was anything good in the starting of II WW. And I can only be sorry if someone has such opinions. Such person should visit at least once so many German Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau (or many other similar places, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and so on, where hundreds of thousands of people, of different nationalities, were killed in the most inhumane ways). And also, regarding Japan, the atomic bombs this was also terrible death of many people, because of war. And there were also some terrible experiments on people. So I just cannot agree that anything can be called worth of such sufferings and such hell on earth. But I should add that I do not have anything against Germans nowadays, I can speak German and I like reading books in German. But I just believe that it is important to remember what really happened in the past, and what led to this, so it will not come back, at least on such terrible scale in the future, when another wars can happen. Because it can be back.
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