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12/31/11(Sat)06:15 No.5298405>>5298359
Do
you live in the same country you were born in? Is the primary language
different from the one you were raised with? If you answered "no" to
both of those questions, you are in the extreme minority of humanity.
The
original laborers were not in a position to take cruise ships. Most of
them were deported after the war ended, but some of them weren't, and
the remainder were penniless and worked menial jobs.
Their
descendants have grown up speaking Japanese, although the majority of
them do not have Japanese citizenship. Their education was in Japanese,
their job is in Japan, and their friends and family members live there.
It is true that Korea will offer them citizenship, but the difficulties
they would face moving to South Korea are only slightly less than the
difficulties you would. This is leaving aside the point that Zainichi
Koreans (much like African Americans) remain poorer on average than
Japanese as a whole. Saying "their ancestors should have just taken
cruise ships back home" is being facile.
In any case, we're
diverting from the point. They aren't in South Korea because they were
looking for a better life, or because their grandparents were. They're
in South Korea because their ancestors were taken over as slaves. |
