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Japan eyes adding Japanese proficiency to permanent residency requirements (mainichi.jp)

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Japan's in general is quite xenophobic, and I'm actually surprised it wasn't a requirement already.

The US doesn't have an official language, so it would be weird to enforce English (for example). US is also full of immigrant/colonizers, so xenophobia is a bit weird there -- it's pulling up the ladder.

I agree the double standard is funny, these were just some related thoughts.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

The US doesn't have an official language, it also doesn't have an official national casserole.

English proficiency is required by law in a lot of places for various things; you'll find it in just about every subpart of FAR parts 61 and 65, for example.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

The US doesn't have an official language

I thought the same, but apparently Trump made it English this year with an executive order.

Because of course he fucking did.