Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "Indian Girl Born And Raised In Japan 🇯🇵🇮🇳" video.

  1.  @ganndalf202  I've met or worked with a number of people from Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Balkans in Japan. Many of them found Japanese husbands/wives here and are raising their children in Japan. And some of them decided to become Japanese citizens. They seem relaxed and comfortable with life here. Western Europe and North America is just too much for some of them. It's not the language, because many of them are fluent in English, but rather the culture, politics, social norms and rules. Some of them sense the micro prejudice when in Western Europe, being looked down or even perceived to be slightly backward (and less skilled/educated/cultured) because they grew up in other parts of Europe, which is quite insulting and hurtful. But when in Japan, they're all appreciated by behavior, personality, or skill set...regardless of which part of Europe you're from. I suppose Japan isn't too liberal or too conservative from their perspective. By the way, Ukrainians are the only exception Japan has made in decades when it comes to refugees. We've had a terrible experience with Korean war refugees in the past, and since then Japanese society has generally refused accepting refugees. However, people have very supportive of Ukrainian refugees in Japan. There is financial support, housing support, language training, etc. I'm often touched by how much the Ukrainian ambassador is touched by the small donations from ordinary people in Japan.
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  2.  @benvad9010  It's really simply. Either you're a Japanese citizen or your're not. Around 10,000 foreigners go through the naturalization process each year. Some of them have a native-tongue outside of Japanese.
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  3.  @gopalramanathan7062  She went to American school, as you can tell by her accent. I've no idea why her parents have Japanese citizenship, but what they did to her was pretty cruel in terms of surviving in Japanese society. She probably won't be able to file taxes or negotiate contracts in Japanese.
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  4. You are what you decide to be. We tried to assimilate and integrate Koreans in the past, but that didn't work out so well. Korean War refugees and their descendants are still in Japan. After so many decades, many of them still don't wish to return to Korea, yet they also refuse to become Japanese. We allowed them to stay in Japan on humanitarian grounds, but this terrible experience is why Japan doesn't take in any more refugees. The irony is "Zainichi Koreans" mostly have their 本籍 in the south (primarily in 全羅道 & 慶尚道), which historically used to be linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and politically Japonic in ancient times. Proto-Korean speakers migrated to the peninsula from Manchuria. Some of the Japonic speakers fled to Japan, but most of them were absorbed into by the conquering northern culture, around 4-7th century. This explains why Korean language has both a Mongolian pitch accent, but retains some Japonic phonetics. It's a fusion language that experienced heavy sinicization in later centuries. Descendants of Proto-Korean speakers mostly have unique Y-DNA Haplogroup C, which makes up about 20% of modern South Korean males. This admixture increases in North Korea. It's also common among Manchus, Mongols, and Turkic tribes. They used to be semi-nomadic horse riders, while Japonic residents in the south were mostly rice farmers. In other words, indigenous Japonic people in the south became "Koreans" over the centuries.
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  5. We have many children of foreign nationals who were raised and educated in Japan. It would be difficult for international school kids to keep up with native people, to say the least.
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