On: The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train

[RaiseProfits]

It’s still racism even if it’s culturally acceptable.

[ng12 → RaiseProfits]

Is that form of racism still bad if it's culturally accepted? There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens. Should those places be denied the opportunity to self-determine that policy?

[RaiseProfits → ng12]

This is only one facet of a common problem that virtually every people on earth deals with. Is it so hard to acknowledge?

> There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens.

Hell, in Israel you can even be a native and be a second class citizen. I wouldn’t look to these countries as role models for human rights, though.

[solidasparagus → RaiseProfits]

Only if you're treated worse. Which in many places you are not. But you're still not a local.