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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Our desire not to be replaced in our own countries is completely unrelated to what happened to The Jews in German occupied Poland.

This is just objectively wrong and needs thinking about.

I actually worked on a paper at Uni which was a comparative study of attitudes towards immigration in former Axis countries. I focused mainly on Japan and Germany and what I found was that in over half the stories out of hundreds I sampled German war guilt, the Holocaust and the Jewish plight during WW2 was invoked to buttress a pro-migrant position.

In Japan, as you can probably guess, I barely could find a handful of references to their WW2 experience that related to immigration -- and they were mostly in press that is published in Japan but actually consumed by English speakers.

In other words the German experience in WW2 and the Holocaust is utterly central to the German desire not to resist being replaced and is so powerfully linked in the German mind that discussion of the Jewish experience in WW2 always follows the discussion of immigration. You can notice this pattern outside of Germany as well.

[–]Jacinda[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is just objectively wrong and needs thinking about.

I typed my original comment, posted, thought better of it, and edited it. You caught my original post.

I actually worked on a paper at Uni which was a comparative study of attitudes towards immigration in former Axis countries. I focused mainly on Japan and Germany and what I found was that in over half the stories out of hundreds I sampled German war guilt, the Holocaust and the Jewish plight during WW2 was invoked to buttress a pro-migrant position

It sounds like an interesting paper confirming something most people have intuited. Did you ever get a chance to publish it? I imagine The Occidental Observer or Counter Currents would probably be interested in a summary. I always think it is sad when scholarship doesn't find a wider audience.

Mass immigration is absolutely disastrous here in NZ as elsewhere and you are correct if anyone complains eventually the N-word comes up.

I am extremely interested in Japan's recent revision of its immigration laws. I often think I would like to visit there and write something on the topic. There must be Japanese people who are concerned about the situation.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I typed my original comment, posted, thought better of it, and edited it. You caught my original post.

I hate when that happens!