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!np0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!sophia.ac.jp!not-for-mail From: "John R. Yamamoto- Wilson" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Japan makes it big in world news Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:08:26 +0900 Organization: Computer Center, Sophia University Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0307040506.76ea8fcf@posting.google.com> <3F079EC2.A49301A3@yahoo.co.jp> <3F081BD9.F2958247@yahoo.co.jp> <3F083765.1A8D4251@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0859B6.64667798@yahoo.co.jp> <3F098C2C.D76F2491@yahoo.co.jp> <3F09AAFC.F3E0FD04@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0ABEFB.C331CBF5@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0AD1A6.DEDA6558@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 133.12.17.31 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: kanna.cc.sophia.ac.jp 1057709030 49666 133.12.17.31 (9 Jul 2003 00:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jul 2003 00:03:50 GMT 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:2426 Kevin Gowen wrote: > I see that Ernie has joined the John Hyphen-Name school of source selection. What you don't see, though - or at least don't care about - is that such sources (Ernest's on chikan and mine on US imperialism) represent a perspective - not necessarily one to be espoused, but one which a body of people nevertheless believe. Now, your attitude appears to be "we don't need to consider these perspectives because they come from left-wing or radical or loony sources", whereas I'm more interested in looking into how it is that people acquire these kinds of perspectives (and I'd have to say, to me, yours is just one more - often loony - perspective). Simply rejecting them out of hand because you don't like the source is unhelpful. There may or may not be some substance behind their views. If there is, I'd like to know about it. If there isn't, and they've simply dug a hole for themselves, I'd like to see how they dug the hole in order to work out how to engage in effective dialogue with people with such views. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com