Japanese guy puts it well
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The basic problem is not ideology. It is race.
Japan is 99% racially homogenous.
"Japan never had a civil war because it's racially homogeneous, so there wouldn't be any division in the country"
That's what you basically just said with that idiotic statement.
Since Europe is filed with white people, and Africa is filled with black people, and Central America prior to 1492 was filled with Mezo Americans, I'm sure there wasn't any division there either!
TIL the Sengoku Jidai is not real. Or the Genpei War. Or the Onin War. Or the Boshin War. No, Japan totally hasnt fought almost as many civil wars as it has external ones.
But then again, that probably applies to most nations. Maybe Europe had more external than internal wars, but that would be because they are so packed in that they are going to be beating on each other over issues instead of themselves.
Maybe this weird racialism is an American disease of the mind. I genuinely think it comes from Anglo Supremacism where the English smugness mixed with misunderstanding the value of Capitalism, created a pseudo-science of innate superiority in the minds of English decedents; while the American continent itself was heavily ethnically diverse. Perhaps living in an ethnically mixed society has given some Americans a disease of the mind where they think everything would work out if everyone kind of generally looked the same.
You know, like Liberia.
That was basically the whole thought process.