cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/44390561
Birthed on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its “Japanese First” campaign.
Racism.
I was very surprised that in Japan there is still a heavy culture of ‘pure’ blood Japanese. Such an advanced country in a lot of ways but culturally they are quite stuck in the past it seems like.
No Japanese grandmother will ever forgive their halfbreed grandchildren for existing. I have known several such people who were treated with hatred by their grandparents while their cousins were showered with love.
Been the opposite in my experience. Grandparents are just happy to have rugrats running around, halfsies or not.
I think it’s the island living. Cuts them off from a lot.
…which is funny because the way things are going, the tiny people living in Japan will share the same fate as homo floresiensis (hobbit-sized species of humans that lived on an island nation of sorts and we’ve extinct). Thousands of years from nowz archeologists will compare the two and wonder if homo floresuensis were equally as racist.
The last “true” Japanese person (according to them)—someone named, Sato—will be heard shouting that “it’s all the immigrants fault” as they die of heat exhaustion about 200-250 years from now.