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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:23:33 -0500
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> How long before Japan and Korea (and a lot of others soon after)
> cease to be whatever they were ? They keep importing young foreign
> labor, more and more and more, which means whatever the
> culture/history was keeps evaporating.
> 
> Soon 'Japan' will just be a geographic name, not anything to do with
> an ancient culture, not anything with a history.

Spoiler alert, that's *all of history* - we're just more aware of it
now. Try reading medieval literature sometime, and count the number of
references to tribes and states that are just names on a map or foot-
notes in the distant history of some present-day ethnic group.