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'You can never become a Westerner:' China's top diplomat urges Japan and South Korea to align with Beijing and 'revitalize Asia' | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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[-] aleph@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's much easier for an East Asian person to become integrated into a Western society than the other way around.

You can live in Japan/China/Korea for decades, be married and have children with a local, and speak the language fluently and people will still call you a foreigner to your face.

[-] InverseParallax@voyager.lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I work with dozens of western Chinese, japanese and koreans every day.

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