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abracat1

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    Comment #3513826

    Yes. And in Tokyo transportation is cheap. Taxis only cost 710 yen per kilometer and all trains stop 12h30 at night.

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    Comment #3441390

    I was refering to a diet full of delicious red meat, bacon and carbohydrates. The diet is popular in many countries and I love it too. But it is a simple fact that such a diet is i…

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    Comment #3440150

    > In many countries it's not considered shameful to live with your parents while you're single. I can completely understand that you want to live with your parents when you are stu…

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    Comment #3439734

    It is easy and popular for westerners to romantacize Japan - but it has serious and structural problems. When analyzed on its own (instead of comparing it to the USA) it becomes re…

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    Comment #3339500

    > That is most certainly not current US immigration policy, which explicitly provides priority for family connections. That is true. But the person who broughthif family over, how …

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    Comment #3337640

    Part 2. Your article also states that: > However, it is a far from perfect analogue. Bryan Caplan cites evidence that immigrants to the U.S. commit crimes at a far lower rate than …

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    Comment #3337622

    Usage of the word Apartheid in your link is bogus! The word Apartheid is only used in order to evoke white guilt. It is argued that because of Apartheid, blacks were poorer (even i…

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    Comment #3336983

    To come back to my point - after '94 illegal immigration significantly increased. There are several reasons for this, e.g. The military was no longer responsible for enforcing the …

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    Comment #3336957

    Hmmm... That is a really bad comparison. I suspect that you misused the word Apartheid because of its emotional connetation (which circumvents any rational reasoning that a non-emo…

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    Comment #3310478

    > You should learn something: that variance within groups is far larger than variance in the averages of groups; and thus race and culture are poor signals for use in judgement. To…