high culture vs. low culture: the rot comes for us all

France leads the way, but this is happening everywhere:

I've seen gaggles of non-white minorities in Seoul—in Itaewon, on subways, randomly in other cities. I've never had a problem with them; they've never had a problem with me. Of course, I'm also remembering experiences from years ago: these days, I don't go out that much, and when I do, most of my travels don't take me to minority-heavy areas. But does Seoul now have roving bands of drunken minorities—white or otherwise—singing loudly in subways and other shared spaces? I wouldn't know. I know that crowd-related things often happen here while I'm not looking, like the Itaewon crowd-crush disaster from a few years ago—so I suppose anything's possible. I also keep weird hours and am active at different times of day from the rest of the populace; on top of that, I prefer activities, like distance walking along creeks and rivers, that keep me well away from the madding crowd, so I may be in my own, self-created bubble when it comes to current realities.

From the Japanese perspective, Koreans often seem like loud, rowdy, uncouth, unpolished people, and frankly, I agree with some of that given the behaviors I encounter almost daily. But Koreans can also be kind and warm and caring; they can be laser-focused and disciplined when the need arises, and since, like the Japanese, they tend to value group harmony over notions of individual fulfillment, they have more at stake in preserving social orderer than many non-Asian cultures do. But from the Japanese perspective, Koreans must look like pussycats compared to the raw crop of foreigners stampeding into Japan.

With the influx of minorities from places that are utterly culturally alien to Koreans and Japanese these days, the sociocultural landscape is changing. As you see in the video above (which focuses on Japan and makes no mention of Korea), the signs and symptoms of rowdy minorities have arrived on Japanese shores. And why? Because like in Europe, some Japanese politicians concluded years ago that the solution to Japan's low-birth-rate problem is to bring in minorities from other countries and cultures—people who, nowadays, have no interest in assimilation (or at least pacific integration), and whose only goal is to become welfare queens, to leech off the systems of care already in place, to drag society down to their debased level.

In a sense, I'm glad I'll be dying early. The future that's coming into focus—and already a reality in cities like Paris—doesn't look to be very pleasant. My friend, the late Bill Keezer, was right to focus so much on immigration.