Under The Same Sky

Re:I hate immigration(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.03 3:21 (#14836349) (http://mercedo-comments.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.01 2:33)
True enough- But now imagine this, if China suddenly *insisted* that Japan take in an additional million people a year, regardless of your laws about immigration, and that those people be given full rights of citizenship, AND that your people had *no* say, that the boatloads of people would be crossing the straights of Japan daily for the forseeable future. That is what Mexico is asking of the United States. Could the Japanese culture survive that?
We use 2k Chinese characters while Chinese use 5k. What does this mean? We often define ourselves as the nationals of the country we belong. In my case we tend to define as Japanese. But the fact is, as the number of Chinese characters we use suggested, we are two-fifth Chinese. Racially speaking we are almost the same people, then when it comes to culture, we share so many things. Chinese characters are just one example. Religion, tradition, dietary, calendar, festival, clothings, etc.
Let's start to stop defining ourselves as just a national of the country we belong. Basically our ancestor used to live in a very limited place when we were in the Ice Age, after experiencing the great diaspora, now we are converging at only one place - that is the world under the same sky.
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