http://imgur.com/a/UhNfM0T Far left social moderate.
Originally posted by Putinbot1
http://imgur.com/a/UhNfM0T Far left social moderate.
Interesting result.
Do you feel it lines up with your political identity?
Yeah this quiz is pretty useless for those outside the US. Had I taken it with Japan's interests in mind, my results would have been significantly left leaning.
Originally posted by Putinbot1
http://imgur.com/a/UhNfM0T Far left social moderate.
Originally posted by RobtardGaijin, you've never been there so don't speak on matters you know nothing about.
Kurk, you want to be part of a culture that will never accept you. Japan is notoriously xenophobic and exclusive.
Yes they are xenophobic, but that is what makes them great as per my other recent thread.
That doesn't mean they won't accept foreigners into their society, though.
I'm committed to taking the next 7-10 years to learn the language, understand the culture, finish up my education as a skilled white-collar professional, make the necessary connections, and perhaps even marry a Japanese woman in order to secure a visa and eventually a citizenship in Japan.
Those on the /r/livinginjapan subreddit have no issues with xenophobia and whatnot. Some even claim to be friends with those in the uyoku dantai (the far-right nationalists in my sig)
The consensus among foreigners living in Japan is that they wish to maintain the strict immigration status-quo as it maintains the low-crime rates and good quality of life overall.
So no, Japan has no issue with foreigners who assimilate themselves into the culture, who are dedicated to the country, etc.
They are not like the USA right now where anyone and their mother can come here with no qualifications, no education, no discipline, live off the welfare state, and overall only come here for short-sighted personal gain.
If you are not the type of person with high-standards, one who gets by at their white-collar job by being a "paper-pusher" with no commitment to working overtime hours, one who prioritizes their own worthless meager existence over the society, then Japan is not for you.
Originally posted by Robtard
Kurk, you want to be part of a culture that will never accept you. Japan is notoriously xenophobic and exclusive.
Kind of ironic Apple and Google plan to release "inclusive emoji's", given their connection to a country that still shames people with disabilities, or who don't conform with social norms.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
f*ck japan
Hey, their manga is better then many comics these days.
You'd probably especially like Baki the Grappler, the artist has an obvious looking George W. Bush and Donald Trump get punked by the main characters, and seems obsessed with Civil Rights era America and Mohammad Ali.
Originally posted by cdtmWesterners seriously need to learn how to look at a country without their obvious social and cultural biases getting in the way.
Kind of ironic Apple and Google plan to release "inclusive emoji's", given their connection to a country that still shames people with disabilities, or who don't conform with social norms.
An island nation small as Japan could not have achieved its amount of success by tolerating deplorables.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
f*ck japan
Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
GMO's, in general, are bad though. I've done a ton of reading about them. I always try to buy organic food when I can afford it (which sadly isn't too often lol). Iirc, several countries in Europe have alrerady banned them.
Regulations around organic can be a bit of a con. For instance in order to certify some meat products as organically raised it only needs to be fed organic feed for a short period before slaughter and not it's entire life.
For crops it also doesn't mean grown without pesticides. It means grown without synthetic pesticides and some natural pesticides are just as toxic as synthetic ones.
Organic farming is also more land intensive as yields are lower per hectare. Something that may be problematic with an increasing population.
I think we'll see more GMOs being used to make existing farmland more productive as well as to make crops growable in less favourable conditions like more acidic or alkaline soil. Requiring less water etc.
They can also be created to require less pesticides.
One of the biggest problems they will likely use GMO technology to solve is the banana problem. They've been bred over decades to not have seeds so bananas are infertile so they are all just cut clones of a single organism. This gradually weakens their genetic resistance to fungus. This is what happened with the variety of banana we used to eat before the 1960s. The Gros Michel. It was destroyed globally by Panama disease. Now it's happening to the current world wide variety, the Cavendish. People will either have to accept the adoption of a poorer variety of banana with less flavour or the Cavendish will have to be genetically engineered to have resistance to the TR4 fungus.
Originally posted by TempAccount
Gaijin, you've never been there so don't speak on matters you know nothing about.
^That's the only part of your post I read.
Neither have you. What I said was correct though, even if you move to Japan (you won't) and try your hardest, you'll always be seen as an outsider/foreigner, at best a novelty.
edit: I have friends who moved to Japan a few years ago and made a home for themselves there, it's also a country I've always wanted to visit and now I have greater incentive, so I'll send you a postcard if I ever make the trip
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Regulations around organic can be a bit of a con. For instance in order to certify some meat products as organically raised it only needs to be fed organic feed for a short period before slaughter and not it's entire life.
For crops it also doesn't mean grown without pesticides. It means grown without synthetic pesticides and some natural pesticides are just as toxic as synthetic ones.
Organic farming is also more land intensive as yields are lower per hectare. Something that may be problematic with an increasing population.I think we'll see more GMOs being used to make existing farmland more productive as well as to make crops growable in less favourable conditions like more acidic or alkaline soil. Requiring less water etc.
They can also be created to require less pesticides.
One of the biggest problems they will likely use GMO technology to solve is the banana problem. They've been bred over decades to not have seeds so bananas are infertile so they are all just cut clones of a single organism. This gradually weakens their genetic resistance to fungus. This is what happened with the variety of banana we used to eat before the 1960s. The Gros Michel. It was destroyed globally by Panama disease. Now it's happening to the current world wide variety, the Cavendish. People will either have to accept the adoption of a poorer variety of banana with less flavour or the Cavendish will have to be genetically engineered to have resistance to the TR4 fungus.
Forgot to say:
good post
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Originally posted by Robtard
It's going to come down to whichever is cheaper/more profitable in the long run, phasing out the Cavendish and introducing a new variety or modifying the Cav.
Oh, and marketing. If you have a good GMO product and a supreme marketing team, you'll sell more.
Fact: contains 10% more vitamins and minerals than competitors' products. Marginal at best.
Marketing: With science as our partner, our new produce is unrivaled. None of our competitors pack as much nutrients into their food as we do. Be Healthier, Be Smart, Be Right. Monsanto: doing more with less since 1986. (soft, mushy, patriotic music, fades)
Originally posted by Robtard
^That's the only part of your post I read.Neither have you. What I said was correct though, even if you move to Japan (you won't) and try your hardest, you'll always be seen as an outsider/foreigner, at best a novelty.
edit: I have friends who moved to Japan a few years ago and made a home for themselves there, it's also a country I've always wanted to visit and now I have greater incentive, so I'll send you a postcard if I ever make the trip
This is why we can't have nice things.
At some point, reducing giving the people what they want has become an "expense" instead of an "investment", and the cost has been reduced quality in everything.
I blame the rise of accountant's into upper business ownership. They see everything in terms of spreadsheets where literally everything is an expense to be culled. That talent making you billions? Just a big expense being overpaid, when he can be replaced with 10 people at a fraction of his cost (Who combined, still can't match him.]
Originally posted by Robtard
It's going to come down to whichever is cheaper/more profitable in the long run, phasing out the Cavendish and introducing a new variety or modifying the Cav.
This is why we can't have nice things.
At some point, giving the people what they want has become an "expense" instead of an "investment", and the cost has been reduced quality in everything.
I blame the rise of accountant's into business ownership. They see everything in terms of spreadsheets where literally everything is an expense to be culled. That talent making you billions? Just a big expense being overpaid, when he can be replaced with 10 people at a fraction of his cost (Who combined, still can't match him.]