re: Is Japan an ethnostate

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The first time I returned home from a week in Japan I drove from the airport directly to a bar / club to meet some friends. The drive there was bad enough - trash along the highway, people driving like idiots. But walking into the bar was like reverse cultural shock

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This is the feeling I have getting off the plane at MSY.

Nothing says welcome home like a fat black TSA agent with 2 inch fingernails. But hey, there's no Jazz Fest in Japan!!