Jisho

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Noun
1. ant tribe (Chinese university graduates who have failed to find well-paid jobs)
Wikipedia definition
2. Ant tribeAnt tribe is a neologism used to describe a group of low income college graduates who settle for a poverty-level existence in the cities of China. Those who belong to the ant tribe class hope that, in time, they will find the jobs for which they are trained in college. Lian Si, then a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University, coined the term "ant tribe" to draw a comparison between the lives of these college graduates and ants: "They share every similarity with ants.
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蟻族 【ありぞく】

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