Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’

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• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who’s tryna immigrate to india?

  But yeah all of east asia is anti-immigrant

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Refugees from Myanmar and Afghanistan are hosted by India.

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    • tearsintherain@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I call BS. Modi’s fundamentalist right wing government is aiming to be a hindu nationalist one. India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup

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    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think also some from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well… They are

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• Philharmonic3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about Israel? They literally want to establish an ethnostate.

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• Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Says the segregationist that is continuing and escalating all of Trump’s worst immigration policies.

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  • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tu quoque

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    • JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PIGPOOPBALLS

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    • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Three quoque

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• livus@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay Biden now compare yourself to the UK which has about 35% more immigrants than the US.

  Or Canada, or Australia, or Singapore, or Switzerland, or New Zealand...

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d love to see your source on that, but when you go look you’ll find you were waaaaay off and be too embarrassed to reply that you were wrong.

    I’ll point you in the right direction though. According to the United Nations, the USA has over five times more immigrants than the UK. Nearly as many immigrants as the UK has people.

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I'm talking per capita. I've now edited the above comment and added a source.

      Sorry for the confusion, I don't know why I thought that since I was talking about percentages it would be obvious I'm referring to per capita numbers, because re-reading my comment I see it's ambiguous.

      But come on, have a heart. New Zealand only has 5 million people in it, total. You must think I'm incredibly, mindblowingly stupid if you think I'm saying the US somehow has fewer immigrants than that!

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  • Jaffa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not right, even per capita the US has a higher % o immigrants than the UK, although they are lower than some of the countries you mention.

    worldpopulationreview.com/…/immigration-by-countr…

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don't like that website but you're right, the UK are about the same as the US with just 15 or 16%.

      I thought they were the same as the rest of the anglosphere but they're not! Shouldn't have picked them to make my point, should have picked Australia after all. Will edit.

      My point still stands though. He had a really low bar of comparison, and if he knows immigration is what makes you strong then the obvious implication is he should be amping for more immigration.

      Idk it just seemed like a really weird speech.

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    • jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting that the site lists “residents” and the. Has Saudi Arabia way up there. I wonder what those numbers would be like if they didn’t count their slaves foreign workers.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they hate immigrants!

  -country that hates immigrants

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• culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wonder-who-thats-for

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• exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  China has many more racist citizens than the USA.

  Cause there’s 5 times as many people there.

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• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Japan doesn’t have the space, and India already has the population…… what’s his point?

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  • SuperApples@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am currently living rent-free in Japan because there’s so many empty houses that just need looking after.

    Everywhere in Japan has a declining population except Tokyo and Osaka, and both cities are well designed and don’t feel crowded. I think Japan is around the 50th most densely populated country, but the very well designed public transport systems and well planned (and mostly hidden!) highways make it so much more open and walk-able than many less densely populated places.

    The only place that feels crowded is Kyoto and that’s because it was never built to sustain the level of tourism it attracts.

    Japan has a limitless water supply. They don’t even charge for the stuff in many places (like here). The agriculture industry is strong and supplies most of the food.

    The country is still like 70%+ untouched forest.

    Japanese policy and mainstream culture is xenophobic and racist, mostly towards Asians (and indigenous people, and lower caste people), but starting to improve based on sheer desperation because of the declining population and economy. Unfortunately, few have the language competency required to work here, and basically no one here can speak English, which makes it really hard to attract people, as the government has not put in the support measures like Korea (a more densely populated place with an even lower birthrate!). It’s not uncommon to see Desi, Vietnamese and Thai workers in convenience stores in Tokyo now though.

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    • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The country is still like 70%+ untouched forest.

      Slow down, that shouldn’t change.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very cool. How hard was it to emigrate? Did you learn the language?

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  • Melkath@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also incorrect.

    Largely due to the birthrate crisis and a problem with abandoned homes, they are trying to entice people from other countries and of child bearing age to sign contracts where they get an abandoned home for dirt cheap if they commit to renovating the home and living in it for at least 10 years.

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    • nahuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If this is the case, can you please provide some proof?

      I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to take advantage of such a program.

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As another guy living in Japan (not rent-free though; I live in Osaka) this place is ridiculously well designed. Even Osaka (3rd biggest city in Japan after Tokyo and Yokohama) has enough space you could easily take in a whole bunch of people before it becomes even uncomfortably crowded.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just digging the hole deeper.

  I called it elsewhere, but Biden sub 30’s in the next two weeks.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, he really needs to start pandering to bigots.

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    • natural_motions@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He already does, that’s the sad part. His border policy is identical to that of the GOP.

      They still despise him and would never vote for him, of course. But he’s gonna keep chasing that imaginary “centrist conservative” vote.

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