The 2-Belo wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Jim Breen has
> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
> 
>> chuckers wrote:
>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
>>>
>>> http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/mao-inoue-and-jonathan-sherr-to-star-in-my-darling-is-a-foreigner
>> Well, well. Tony and Saori are friends of mine; I'll have to see it.
> 
> Do tell. My wife adores her books. Seems to "find similarities" or something.
> Hmm.

Mine, too.  However, I get my backies when I read Ata' Shin'chi and 
point out the similarities between her and Okaasan ... turnabout is fair 
play ...

>> but 20% of the time I think he's saying and doing
>> things that I wish more gaigins would say and do. Often we bend
>> over backwards to accept and defend blatantly xenophobic
>> actions in the interest of having a quiet life and not making
>> a fuss.
> 
> Heh. Avoid confrontation in the interest of not making a fuss? That sounds like
> the classic Japanese way of doing things! And they say we refuse to assimilate?!

There's that and there's also picking your battles.  I figure that, if I 
can influence the outcome about 5% of the time, I'm ahead of the curve 
for a White Boy in Wa.

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CL