Japan's TV has exploded with discussions on illegal aliens, foreigners and refugees this past year.
The Japanese immigration control law is currently in process of revision so that foreigners applying for refugee status CAN be deported, and that foreigners must pass refugee status twice to be accepted as a refugee and will be deported if they fail to do so.
The interesting part about why the law is in revision is because of Kurds. Japan for the most part does not recognize the Kurds as refugees. The only city that does is the city of Kawaguchi, and outside the city, they are illegal aliens. In Japan, the people who identify as Kurdish are recorded as Turks with Turkish citizenship, thus not a refugee.
Japan does not have a big Kurdish population, but they tend to be on news disproportionately for illegal activity such as murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual assault, reckless driving, street fights and clashing with police while reported as "done by Turks." In the past, similar incidents happened with Iranians and Japan answered with revising visa standards for Iranian "tourists." (i.e. illegal aliens living in Japan for years) As for Kurds, they shout they deserve human rights while infringing on other peoples' rights while on official record count as crime done by Turks.
Japan has had enough, the mayor of Kawaguchi has had enough, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party has had enough, and legal Turks who didn't cause no trouble has had enough. Japan is changing immigration law with support of voters, mayor of Kawaguchi is directly telling the Ministry of Justice to deport criminal foreigners, and the chairman of the majority party is directly talking to the Turkish ambassador that Japan might have to take away Turkish visa exceptions just like what happened with Iranians. Turks living in Japan who doesn't even support Erdogan are telling Kurdish criminals to leave the country and go back to Turkey, knowing Erdogan acts with an iron fist against Kurdish guerillas and terrorists.
Ideals and compassion sounds nice, but that cannot come from the suffering of citizens. Japan has a much bigger foreign population of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino and other SEA nations that abide by the law. It doesn't matter who you are, if you cause trouble, Japan will answer firmly in interest with law abiding citizens, as any nation should.
I guess you haven't heard of Japan's Sakoku period where they didnt allow any immigrants and didnt allow anyone to leave either? they didnt even allow Japanese that had left the Japan to ever come back to Japan.
I'll give you that, but it ended with a guy from another ethnocentric country kicking the door down. (Why was he able to do that? Because he came from a less isolationist culture.) Trade and movement is the natural state of man.
"muh trade and muh international movement"
you say you dont want to sound like a jew but you are definitely sounding like one with the way you think ..
Put simply, every nation and culture in history has conducted a certain level of trade and migration with its known neighbors, even Japan. It's up to the nation to regulate that movement to its advantage, but eliminating it is virtually impossible.
If you study history even at a surface level you realize this quickly. The norm of the nation state is ethnocentric, but the norm of culture is exchange, assimilation, and adaptation. Hellenics, Byzantine, Silk Road, Northwest Passage, drafting of the American Constitution, colonialism, even modern examples like anime and Toyota's kaizen philosophy, and on and on.
trade to a certain degree is fine. But not immigrants
America was not an ethno centric country they literally had a civil war over some black slaves, and Matthew Perry had a son in law who had worked for the Rothschilds.
Ethnocentric doesn't mean 100% of the country is composed of a given ethnicity. It means one ethnicity is a clearly dominant majority and controls the norms of the country.
If "ethnocentric" meant no foreigners existed in the nation then virtually every developed civilization would fail that test.
as i said, you are trying to say you dont want to sound like a jew but you are certainly sounding like one