Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!x060053.ppp.dion.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why Koreans hate Japanese Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:14:59 +0900 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <365fcc52.0305201057.565afc97@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0305281748.6fd5360d@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0305291840.7b936ae6@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0305310935.200762e8@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0306022212.30aed075@posting.google.com> <3EDC4631.5030805@hotmail.com> <365fcc52.0306030703.334014b9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: x060053.ppp.dion.ne.jp (210.234.60.53) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054660818 10513757 210.234.60.53 (16 [169501]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:593 > Ummmm...yes, as matter of fact, every gaigin man I've met dislikes > seaweed though. But most of them were Sepponians. The only gaigin I > knew who liked Wakame was Dutch woman. No problem with seaweed as far as I'm concerned! > Don't mind. It's just a satire against Kobe type pseudo-westerners. > Kobe where they produce Kobe beef extremely despise the un-westernized > Tajima region just because they eat kippers all the time. Those pseudo > westerners of Kobe believe like westerners always eat beef so they > imitated western style beef-eating dietary habit to become honorary > whites. Nevertheless, the dietary habits of beef eating had been > already existed in Osaka ever since the Hideyoshi era. Those > Hun-influenced Koreans had already brought such dietary habits into > Osaka as Yakiniku style, not western style. Kobe always try to deny > every Asian or Japanese things so it's funny that the British people > who the silly pseudo-westerners of Kobe adore as westerners even eat > fish as same as Tajima people do. In short, the Kobe pseudo-westerners eat beef because they're trying to be honorary whites, but the Osakans had been eating beef for donkeys years, and the British (just to confound those Japanese who try to be honorary whites) eat kippers, which have been eaten in outlying areas of Japan for centuries. Yup! This all - er - jibes with the pattern of human folly we've been delineating here. Could we perhaps agree just to pity these foolish mortals (among whom we are numbered), instead of insulting them mercilessly, and then you and I could get on like a house on fire? -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com