On: Patrick Collison's Questions

[icelancer]

...have you considered that things are much nicer there but at great cost to the sections of people they consider "not nice?" Especially in Japan?

[mef → verroq]

_Gaijin_ is commonly used for non-Asian foreigner. Take a look at how citizens of non-Japanese heritage are treated if you want to understand what the parent comment is referring to.

For example, Korean or Chinese heritage Japanese, or Ainu (indigenous Japanese)

[verroq → mef]

They are pretty xenophobic, if you are Chinese or worse Korean you might as well be a gaijin.

[icelancer → mef]

Ha, or worse, Japanese-American.

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I don't think the parent comment was alluding to only foreigners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi is one of the unfortunate social phenomena that's notable in Japan from the culture and the pressure of conformity.