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.

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 industrial philosphy, and on and on.

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 assimilation and adaptation. Hellenics, Byzantine, Silk Road, Northwest Passage, drafting of the American Constitution, colonialism, and on and on.

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.