Why don't Asian countries take in immigrants?

It is in a lot of cases..Thai for example bears almost no similarity whatsoever to Mandarin, although there are some loanwords from Teochew. Vietnamese is written with an alphabet these days, absolutely no characters at all, and was influenced by Classical Chinese, not modern Standard Mandarin... Laotian is written in an abugida and, again, has very little similarity to Chinese. Burmese actually has more English and Pali influences in it than it does Chinese.

The only one in your list in what's called the CJK group (ie the ones who would have a 'discount' on learning each other's languages) is Korean...

Why have people made the assumption that Asian countries don't take in immigrants?

China already has massive problems with migrants from other regions of the country, let alone taking in immigrants. Besides, we do take in a loot of N. Korean refugees (not always officially, but the local Korean ethnic minority group tends to take them in and hide them from the authorities).

Most Chinese people do live in relative poverty, or abject poverty in rural areas, compared to people in the West..

You clearly no nothing about Japan. Japanese people are very welcoming to "guests". Being ethnically non-Japanese you are immediately considered a "guest" and therefore as such are treated as one. If however, the "guest" demands to be stay longer and be a "host", he will soon be treated very differently.

That black in all the SoftBank commercials was purposely picked to look out of place. The whole purpose of the SoftBank commericals is to be weird, something completely lost on you obviously...

Trust me, the Japanese look upon the idea of a ethnically non-Japanese person becoming "Japanese" (a Japanese citizen) with absolute revulsion.

Did you even bother to WATCH half those videos, or just stick them up there and hope that they might look like some halfway decent proof of the rubbish you spewed?

Most of them are one off examples of complete retards (not unlike the "go home and stop taking our jobs blah" idiotic, uneducated chavs you'll find on any street corner here in England) behaving stupidly and are NOT representative of the Japanese population as a whole, and one was about Korea, not Japan.

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The above languages have literally NO relation to English. Forget about their written systems, they at least have a Sprachbund with Chinese. Many are tonal languages with similar phonemes and grammatical features so learning Chinese is a cinch. English on the other hand is near-impossible with its tenses, plurals, conjugation, etc. And let's not even talk about other European languages, which are much more difficult, grammatically, than English!

Ethnic Koreans in China (朝鲜族, commonly referred to by ordinary folks by the derogatory phrase 高丽棒子) are mostly on the way out of China. They're all flocking to South Korea - a country they are allowed to migrate to, given their bloodline. Most Han Chinese - certainly all of my friends - think "good riddance to bad trash" on that one. Personally I can't understand why South Korea and ethnic Koreans in China are so reviled... I've had nothing but good experiences with Koreans and ethnically-Korean Chinese...

So, when you say 'Britain', you really mean England? If so much of Japan is so inaccessible, why do they have such a large population?

Why don't China, India and other growing economies, and Japan don't take in any refugees/asylum seekers?

1. Language difficulties. Mandarin and Japanese in particular = mindfrak. Hindi's not much better. Most of the asylum seekers in the world come from West/Central Asia and Africa - Europe is the logical destination for most of these people, as the most developed and wealthiest part of the world.

2. Asylum seekers. Japan is only really close to North Korea as far as 'orrible states go, and there's not much chance of getting out of NK. But as for China and India, why would you flee to countries that are respectively an oppressive communist regime and a country where there's almost no prospect of escape from a life of poverty at the moment, and so not many prospects for asylum seekers?

Disagreeing with you makes me a c*nt now does it? Thanks for that...

I think you'll find an awful lot of speakers of tonal languages (including Cantonese) actually still mess up tones in Mandarin after years of study...

I believe that the Sprachbund which you're referring to is the CJK area...

I've spent almost my entire life in China, but thanks for the information about 朝鮮族 anyway I suppose ... Anyway, there's still a large 朝鮮族 population in China which certainly don't seem to be 'on the way out' - some of the young ones don't even speak much Korean these days, like I speak more Canto than English tbh (although admittedly, most do!)

I know very few Han Chinese who 'revile' Koreans - I would say that's more towards the Japanese

okay right. India has quite a sizeable Nepalese population. But the problem is there is that 1) there is barely any space for the present population 2) Job propspects AT THIS CURRENT TIME are not good in India for skilled workers especially. They do have A LOT of internal migration though. Standard of living isn't great at all in India as well.

Survey after survey in recent years has shown that Korea is the most hated country in China. Japan is of course second place though.

Trust me, the Japanese look upon the idea of a ethnically non-Japanese person becoming "Japanese" (a Japanese citizen) with absolute revulsion.

Yeah exactly. I feel sorry for these Nepalis. Migrating to hellholes in Bihar and UT - I mean damn, just damn!

That said I'm glad India erected that huge wall on its Bangladeshi border and has shoot-to-kill orders on any Bangladeshis who dare to cross into India. Wish India would adopt the same stance with all these Pakistani Muslim terrorists crawling in.

Why don't China, India and other growing economies, and Japan don't take in any refugees/asylum seekers?