Druid on Nostr: Discourse on immigration always infuriates me because it's always focused around ...
Discourse on immigration always infuriates me because it's always focused around economics and never about cultural identity. If you want to emigrate to Japan you WILL learn Japanese, you WILL take a Japanese name and you WILL get BATHROOM SLIPPERS for your bathroom you filthy gaijin. Wearing shoes inside when the inspector comes round for your citizenship application? You get denied.
It's not perfect but it's one of the only pieces of immigration policy I've ever seen that is focused to values compliance rather than economics or country of origin. The other that springs to mind would be when some Nordic country (I forgot which one) hooked applicants up to fMRI scanners and made them watch videos of gays kissing and stuff to see their responses. It got quickly discontinued for being "Islamophobic"
It's not perfect but it's one of the only pieces of immigration policy I've ever seen that is focused to values compliance rather than economics or country of origin. The other that springs to mind would be when some Nordic country (I forgot which one) hooked applicants up to fMRI scanners and made them watch videos of gays kissing and stuff to see their responses. It got quickly discontinued for being "Islamophobic"