Raj Feridun wrote:

> Are you married to a Japanese person or is that the Royal "we"? I had
> to assume that any of the glad-handing gaijin racists posting in this
> thread who ARE married to Japanese somehow granted them IMMUNITY from
> non-human status very similar to the immunity Eric Takabayashi seems
> to grant homeless Japanese from unkind ignorance.

Read my own complaints about the homeless and their unkindness or
ignorance, some of which are contained in the posts in question. Even
without jobs, homes, or money, they do not need to be that miserable. But
I don't hold that against them when I see people on the ground in the cold
or obviously without food.

> Again, I never said there was NOTHING negative or worthy of venting. It
was the elitist group glad-handing thing that pissed me off.

What elitist group?

> >There are lots of things I like about the place. Am I constrained to
> >mentioning only those things?
>
> No, but have you EVER mentioned them in here?

We have Japanese and short term visitors to spread the good news about
Japan, even absolute lies about how it is the safest country in the world
where x never happens, etc. I believed it myself until I actually lived in
Japan myself, because again, the WORST I ever heard about Japan from my
university professors during the four years I studied about Japan and
Japanese was, cities are dirty. Did they tell me about social or
environmental issues, even things as obvious as the status of women? Did
they mention historical or political problems, even something as obvious
as actions in WWII?

No they did not.

But try to inform people of the truth, such as what happens in Japanese
schools, what happens to people of the discriminated districts, or what
goes on in Japanese media vis a vis foreigners, and get branded a racist.

> Does hating your own race for whatever reason make you any less of a
racist? If so good point.

And who would this be? It is modern Japanese, particularly the young, who
blithely cast aside their traditions and history to emulate the West, from
language and mannerisms, down to actual physical appearance through use of
clothes, tans, hair dyes or go as far as undergoing surgery, not to
mention openly desiring or trying to get out of the entire country
forever, who hate their nation or their race.