Society
A US Tourist Railway's 'If You Disagree, Leave' Announcement, Seen From Japan
On Independence Day, a conductor on a Tennessee tourist railway announced that the US was 'the greatest country on Earth' and that anyone who disagreed 'can leave,' drawing accusations of xenophobia and, reportedly, his dismissal. Japanese netizens split between defending it as ordinary patriotism and mocking the contradiction of exclusionary rhetoric in a nation built by immigrants.