Quote Originally Posted by Raver View Post
Korea being a peninsula and Japan being an island had nothing to do with it then? Geography played a pivotal role in separating people ethnically whether that was mountains or bodies of water.
So is the United Kingdom, and yet they chose completely different paths.

The fact is, there were, and still are, a diverse group of different tribes and ethnicities when people first arrived at those territories. It's just that those people have been conveniently "forgotten", pushed aside or forcibly assimilated due to an ideology of ethnic homogeneity. Also that Japanese, Koreans and Chinese have frequently inter-mingled with one another, but of course that has also been forgotten.

However geography might play into a psychological role of these countries, as UK doesn't feel like it's much part of "Europe", and Japan doesn't feel very much that it's part of "Asia".