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

[MG]

On 25-apr-2013 19:20, Simon Clubley wrote:
> The tone of that response makes me think you have a bit of a agenda here

Not at all, you assume a bit too much.  What agenda would there be?


> (a) discriminating by someone's race without any other reason is wrong
> regardless of background
>
> (b) there's a hell of a difference between a monoculture society which
> has issues interacting with outsiders and members of a multicultural
> society who still actively target others simply because of their race
> and without any other reason.

This is easily the greatest nonsense I've read in quite a while,
especially --- particularly in this context, even as you mentioned
yourself --- as it directly collides with your earlier ("A") point.

Why is there a difference and why should it matter?  Also. why do you
so easily assume that Japan is "monocultural"?  That in itself isn't
even true.  Ever heard of the Hokkaido-native Ainu, ethnic "Zainichi"
Koreans, ethnic Chinese, etc.?  Not to mention their treatment and
that they all too often try to hide their true origins in Japan, due
to prejudices.  you should start looking up publications on their
treatment and position in Japanese society, for starters (there is
quite a bit out there on the Ainu, for instance).

Not to mention common terms for foreigners, with very pejorative
connotations, like the term "gaijin".


> Before ending this discussion, I just want to make it clear that nothing
> I have read in the material you have pointed me to changes my opinion the
> Japanese deserve enormous respect for the way they behaved during the
> earthquake.

It's perfectly in line with the leading dogmas.

  - MG