[Malinguenem]

Oh, I actually was under the impression that Japan was one of the few states in the world that was also a unified nation-state...

[Optosypoeds]

Originally posted by Traianvs
Oh, I actually was under the impression that Japan was one of the few states in the world that was also a unified nation-state...
Scary, isn't it? An entire race, that still exists today in a developed country, that's pretty much unknown in the wider world.

[ultimda horaf]

According to the Wikipedia article they seem to be clearly Oriental genetically, yet in the past I've read of them as being classified as Caucasian.

[imnaone]

I find the Ainu interesting too... I think my father mentioned them to me when I was a kid (he'd been to Japan several times on business).

I didn't realize they were discriminated against... how so? Are they shunted off into shitty "reservations" and generally pissed on except they're allowed to run casinos? Oh, wait...

-Arrian

[Sheelldaw]

I hope that you meant to say Japan.

[Petwrenny]

Something I was told, (not about ainus but related) is that japan also has a lower caste, like the dalits of india, (altough the cagots of france and north spain are a better example I think)

Something few people know about.
A japanese woman wouldnt let her daughter marry someone from this caste.

Nowadays there is racism in japan against japanese-latin americans who return to japan, even if they have remained ethnically japanese 100%, because people from that low caste made a big bunch of the japanese who emigrated to south america (they were obviously trying to escape the situation they were in), so these returning people are suspect.

[blohannaserri]

I knew there were older inhabitants of Japan than the Japanese. I didn't know their name though. But I thought there were more than one of those aboriginal people?