Disclaimer: I am not trying to attack anyone. So, please do not take this personally. I am only trying to explain how I understand Japanese nationalism and I welcome criticism. After all, that's one of the reasons why some of these online communities exist. あと注意として日本語と英語が混ざってるって事。
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Certainly understandable that there are people on the right and on the left as well as in the middle. でもI just don't buy why people always associate a specific set of ideas and beliefs with a certain orientation (right, left, and etc...)
For example, one can be left and certainly be nationalistic. まあSemantic上の問題なんだけど、People do tend to want to have this bipolarized picture of political opinions. でもIt's just a model that helps you understand the overall structue, and it's not necessarily the true depiction of it. もちろん多くの人がそう思うという事は, it means that this model is somewhat reflective of the reality, but perhaps, not on certain levels or on certain issues.
In Japan, nationalism has a lot to do with the Japanese ethnicity. 国民国家という表現があるでしょ?Even though Japan is not as racially homogenous as some people might make it to be, Japan is more of a mononational-state like Sweden, Denmark, and etc...
nation=ethnic groupという考えに基づくと、
アメリカはMultinational state - it is a state with numerous nations. And Israel would be a binational state - Israelis, and the Palestinian citizens in Israel
そしてJapanese nationalismの問題点の一つは国民国家という考えが癒着している事だろう。It's not a citizenship-based nationalism, but it is a nationality-based or ethnicity-based natioanlism. もちろんこれはイスラエルのような国にとっても非常に大きな問題な訳だ。
日本国籍というものが日本民族と強くつながっている限り、Koreans in Japanの多くは日本国籍を取得するのに負い目を感じるだろう。国籍と民族がつながっているから、They are not allowed to embrace their Korean part of heritage. Have you ever wondered why there is no such thing as Korean-Japanese? 韓国系日本人という言い方はあまり使われない。なぜなら、世間的な考え方が日本人=Ethnic Japaneseであり、Ethnic subgroupという考え方とはalmost mutually exclusive だからだ。 これはハーフについても言える事だろう。Especially because most "haafus" are phenotypically different from most full-blooded Japanese.