[Info-vax] [OT] Japan, was: Re: HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-24, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 24-apr-2013 14:08, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Um, "interesting" website. I didn't know about it, but having read a bit
>> of it, it comes across as sounding like one of those US Tea Party/right
>> wing websites which can only say bad things about others.
>
> That's where you're very mistaken and wrong.  See also Wikipedia's
> article on Mr. Arudou-san:
>
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arudou_Debito>
>

Thank you for the reference; it helps explain the background to the tone
of his website.

The impression I get from that page is that he's a campaigner who wants
to modify Japanese society to be more open to outsiders. That's a
perfectly acceptable thing to have a opinion on, but the way he's going
about it seems to be hyper-aggressive which is counter-productive in
Japanese society from what I know of it.

He needs to learn that US style aggressive campaigning may be suitable
for the US, but it's not automatically suitable for every other culture
around the world.

I do feel sorry for his daughter however; that discrimination was wrong.

Simon.

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