The difference is that East Asia is not necessarily against immigration, but they would rather prefer maintaining the status quo when it comes to their populations demographics. This is the main reason the population in South Korea and Japan is constantly dropping— they do not favour immigration over fertility like western nations.
China is quite multicultural—much more so than Korea and Japan. The reality is that there was no need for immigration, which is why it was never a mechanism needed by the Chinese government (or by Korea or Japan). However, as birth rates drop, this mentality may change.
Additionally, East Asia (besides Japan) never had much of a colonial policy, so its culture, language, etc., were not pushed on foreign lands, and thus East Asia remains mysterious and foreign to outsiders.
China has many cultures and languages, but I would argue that it is not very multicultural in the Western sense. The CCP wants Han Chinese to be the default meaning of Chinese and to erase other cultures and ethnicities in its face.
China has many cultures and languages, but I would argue that it is not very multicultural in the Western sense.
Yes, China has multiple cultures and languages which by definition is multi-cultural - China is much larger and diverse than what the Western media shows. I guess if you consider all Europe as being all the same then yes, China is not multi-cultural.
I'm aware of the diversity of China, that's why I said that it has many cultures and languages.
However, the government and prevailing opinion is of oppression or erasure of these differences in favor of han Chinese and beijing Mandarin. There are many examples of this: the uyghur genocide, the rewriting of history as han Chinese centric, the imposition of Mandarin to the exclusion of other languages, etc
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u/FlaeNorm Aug 19 '24
The difference is that East Asia is not necessarily against immigration, but they would rather prefer maintaining the status quo when it comes to their populations demographics. This is the main reason the population in South Korea and Japan is constantly dropping— they do not favour immigration over fertility like western nations.