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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Question: but how can they tell she's not Japanese (I'm assuming she speaks Japanese)? E.g. many Europeans could pass as being from anywhere in the Americas+Europe as long as they don't say anything and dress like a local. Are they that sensitive to facial structure differences?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Are you really saying you couldn't tell if someone is from Spain or Russia? Germany or UK? Hair colour, eyes colour, skin colour, height, facial features are all completely different. Try finding blonde, 1.9m tall Spaniard with blue eyes for example. There are exceptions obviously, but 99% of the time you can easily spot a Brit/German/Polish/Russian in Spain. The same is true for Asia. I'm sure it's very easy for them to tell Japanese/Chinese/Korans/Indians apart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, the percentages of certain traits in the population are radically different, but there is always enough variation within the population that you can find combinations without automatically having to conclude that the person is foreign. Maybe the variation is smaller within Japan, I know it's larger in China, so maybe a Japanese woman would blend easier in China than the reverse?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can only judge from media and people i met here in Europe, but for all of them the facial structure is pretty distinct between chinese and japanese people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

chinese, japanese, koreans, and orher asians have different facial features and are typically easily distinguishable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This would be after she's introduced herself, but you can make a pretty good guess about most Asian people once you get used to the differences as well