On Jun 2, 7:27 pm, JimBreen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The outrage over WaiWai reminds me a story told by JK Galbraith
> of his time as Kennedy's ambassador to India. The Embassy
> in New Delhi used to have weekly screenings of recent US
> films, and one they showed was "Last Exit to Brooklyn".
> The US expat community and others were upset
> that the Indian elite were being shown the sleazy side
> of life in the US. Galbraith mused that perhaps they
> were expected to show only films of "homely Iowa
> maidens baking apple pies."
>
That's much the same thought I had. A) Wai Wai only put in English
things that are already printed in Japanese; and B) how has Japan's
image been helped by the massive amount of porn exported by Japan
(much of which is downright weird), not to mention the horror films
that are about the strangest things a person could ever imagine. When
I mention Japan to people they think: porn; weird horror movies;
samurai and geisha; and porn.

I also think that anyone who thought that Wai Wai represented the
majority probably still believes that (thanks to all the porn).

Did I mention there's a lot of porn that comes out of Japan?

John W.