Russell wrote:Yokohammer wrote:I think you need to consider the fundamental human need to belong ... to identify with some sort of home base.
If people are denied the "right" to identify with wherever they feel they should belong, if they feel disenfranchised, their loyalties will naturally gravitate to somewhere else. If there's some sort of ancestral homeland, that's where the focus is likely to go. There's nothing unusual about that. It's just human nature. And for Japan, a country that still insists on keeping second and third generation residents at arms length, I think it is a huge problem that is still fermenting and will burst out of its bubble and do some serious ass-biting at some point in the future.
Hammer, I really like this explanation.
It very well sums up the feelings that ethnic residents may have in one paragraph.
Agreed. And that is why inclusion shot up the policy agenda. It doesn't only apply to immigrants. If you want to undermine gangs and organised crime, revive inner city areas, get the best from your employees and so on, then that's the way to do it. Make sure people feel and know they belong and they will pay you back in spades. Exclude them and they will naturally gravitate somewhere else.