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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
98% pure Japanese?
First of all there isn't such a thing as pure Japanese so I doubt your statistic off the bat.
If you mean that 98% identify themselves as "being Japanese", well that doesn't say anything about Japanese homogenity.
While most Japanese are descendents of what is often referred to as Yamato, many people in Hokkaido have Ainu heritage to varying degree and the same can be said of the people of Okinawa which if not for the fact that it is part of Japan I would say has a completely different culture altogether.
That's not to mention all the mixed race people as well as the Koreans, Chinese and South Americans that live in Japan.
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/ja.html
There's your source, the CIA factbook. Can't get much more accurate than that. It's actually 98.5% Japanese
Ethnic Group, so I'd count that as pure Japanese and not any group that claims to be Japanese.
Which brings me on to: no such thing as pure Japanese? Huh? What about the every Japanese person who has Japanese great great great etc etc Grandparents? I'm not sure what you mean by no such thing as pure Japanese
You could say that about any country that has expanded it's borders to other places. I'm Welsh but my passport and everything else about me says British, so I count myself as a British citizen by all means. Me being Welsh doesn't make Britain any more diverse. If anyone at immigration or on the international stage asks me what nationality I am, I'm British not Welsh.
I know that ethnic origin in terms of people like the Ainu is all very subjective, and what I said isn't solid proof that people like the Ainu are definitely pure Japanese, but I think that they've been part of Japanese culture and influence long enough to be called pure Japanese.
I agree on mixed race people however, but still I don't think that'd detract too much from the final percentage, especially if they are recent generations as they'd probably be considered Korean, Chinese etc ethnic origin.