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So it seems not even a nuke can kill Japanese fascism.

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Unrelated, dang, how could someone get a hold of you? I have questions for you about your 'lumen' project.

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Noted. I should have known that my hyperbolic rhetoric would incite a undesired emotional response instead of a civil and rational discussion or debate. Flame-wars, and especially not offensive flame-wars are not my intent nor where they but I see why it appears as such thus please accept my apology for what it is worth. Also: Thank you for taking the effort to point it out and correct me.

No worries. A lot of this boils down to understanding internet forum dynamics and avoiding the things that usually don't work.

Why is that a bad thing? Every single race or culture has a right to want to preserve itself. Maybe you have some personal issues you need to work out before you go off projecting self hatred onto other cultures.

What is a race?

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>Every single race has a right to want to preserve itself and it's culture.

"Japanese" isn't a race, and culture isn't a function of racial identity.

If these things were true, then American culture would belong only to one race, and it clearly doesn't.

Japanese is a race.

No, "Asian" is a race, "Japanese" is a nationality, which doesn't necessarily require one be Asian.

Aren't there specific ethnic groups indigenous to Japan, that one might refer to collectively as the 'Japanese' regardless of nationality ?

Ainu is a race, as are Yamato and Ryukyuan. Asian is a much bigger race, then we have nationalities. Sometimes Japanese is used to mean Yamato.

Also, see Han (ethnicity) and Chinese (nationality), where outside of China the latter is often used to mean the former.

Fair enough, and I'm sure that when Japanese nationalists talk about Japanese as a race, they probably mean Yamato, but that doesn't make it accurate to describe "Japanese" as a singular ethnic or racial identity.

It isn’t accurate but nor is it exactly wrong. The word is very contextual. Most nationalities can be construed into races, and many things we considered race today arose from nationalities a long time ago (in the long run they blend together).

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