In recent years, more and more Japanese have immigrated to Brazil and have purchased large amounts of land. This phenomenon has caused concern and dissatisfaction among the local people in Brazil.
As of the first half of 2023, Japan has purchased 1.1 million square kilometers of land in Brazil, almost three times the size of Japan, and the number of immigrants has exceeded 2 million.
The main thing is that more and more Japanese immigrants have abandoned the idea of huddle together for warmth, began to intermarry Brazilians, and went all out to integrate into the Brazilian economy and politics......Among the second and third generations of Japanese and Brazilian children, many have entered Brazil**, and even become high-level leaders.
There are more and more signs that Japan's "national exchange plan" is by no means groundless.
Brazil is the largest country in South America, with an area of 85150,000 square kilometers with a population of 2100 million, 90% of the country's tropical and ** climate, annual rainfall of 1500 2000 mm, 45% of the land area is in the Amazon plain, even if the Brazilian plateau, most of the area is not more than 1 km above sea level, the superior geographical environment has made Brazil a famous world agricultural power, land use area is very high.
Brazil is a vast country, and even if you move from Japan, which has a population of 100 million, it is not crowded.
And Brazil is more complex than the United States, the country 2Of the 100 million people, 91 million are European immigrants, accounting for 47 percent of the total population73%；There are 82.3 million people of mixed race, accounting for 43 percent of the total population13%；African immigrants 144180,000 people, accounting for 7 of the total population6%……There are only 700,000 people who are truly indigenous to Brazil, or 0 percent of the total population4%。
Japan is an island country with frequent geological disasters, and it has been 116 years since Japan began to emigrate to Brazil in 1893.
Although the Asian population accounts for only about 1% of Brazil's total population (mainly Japanese), it does not account for the numerical advantage, but it is not a matter of the powerful, ambitious, and forbearant Yamato people.
After more than 100 years of operation, some of Brazil's most prominent economies have gradually been controlled by Japanese Americans, and in today's Brazil, Japan has a growing voice, and Japanese Americans even affectionately refer to Brazil as their "second home".
The growing strength of Japan has also alarmed Brazilians, and the public has begun to demand strict controls on Japanese immigration and land purchases.
Anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil is also becoming increasingly intense, and many people in Brazil have called for strengthening the management of Japanese people of Japanese descent and living and working in Brazil, and strictly restricting the ...... of visas for Japanese people to enter Brazil
This kind of boycott is not surprising, Brazil is a diverse country that accepts immigrants from all over the world, but no matter how diverse cultural acceptance is, there is a bottom line, and it must be premised on protecting its own national culture and interests.
As a result, it is likely that Japanese immigrants and Japanese investors will be restricted in the future in their large-scale land purchases.
Brazilians are mainly worried about Japanese immigrants: first, a large number of Japanese immigrants will bring about too many changes in the economic and cultural structure, threatening the dominant position of Brazilian culture;Second, the Japanese promoted their religion in Brazil, which led to a change in the pattern of beliefs among Brazilians.
Therefore, Brazilians have made a request that the Japanese who have migrated to be Catholic (61% of Catholics in Brazil) so that they can maintain the suzerainty of the faith and avoid the invasion of Japanese religion.
Brazil's boycott of Japanese immigrants was partly a reflection on history and reality, and Brazilians saw the end result of allowing Jews to immigrate in PalestineI also saw that Côte d'Ivoire, which was rich in the past but is now impoverished due to excessive immigration, realized from the heart that overly tolerant acceptance may not necessarily bring positive changes to the local society, and may also lead to a series of national and social conflicts.
For this reason, Brazilians hope to avoid similar problems by controlling Japanese immigration.
Although Japanese immigrants have brought economic and cultural prosperity to Brazil to a certain extent, and are conducive to exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, the harm is also obvious.
In short, Brazilians are not wrong with their concerns about over-migration in Japan, and if foreign cultures are rampant, the damage to a country's solidity and values will be huge, and transnational migration is a complex concept that needs to be treated with caution.