Re: Ooohhh...another fork! Re: Here we go with another thread fork (was Re: Multinational ?marriage EPIC FAIL (was "Re: Holidays as public holidays" once, in the ?distant past))
chuckers wrote:
> On Aug 29, 10:28 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Jim Breen wrote:
>>> chuckers wrote:
>>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
>>> I'm 80:20 about Debito. 80% of the time I think he's making a fool
>>> of himself, 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.
>> I have had a number of assignments in Hakodate, Tomakomae, Sapporo and
>> Asahikawa that have involved visits with the local police. You'd be
>> surprised how much Being White But Not At All Like Debit can become the
>> litmus test of whether Hokkaido Dou-kei will assist with information /
>> assistance or not.
>>
>
> Do you mean being an "average" un-assuming white guy will get you a
> lot of help from the boys in blue, whereas screaming and yelling
> about being discriminated against will make them uncooperative?
Amazing, innit? I've had several younger detectives get nose-to-nose
with me and ask in a very insulting tone whether I knew the boy and what
did I think of him. After answering that I was in no way connected and
did not consider him to be of value, I'd usually get a "Yosh!" a smile,
and the young guy would sit back down so the older cop could ask how
they could help.
> Of course, Debito would spin this as because of his "activism" the
> local boys are much more "respectful" of (white) foreigners because
> he was there to shout "HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! Come see the
> violence inherent in the system!"
Yeah, right. There have been time when I have been tempted to stamp
"Not at all affiliated with any gaijin rights organizations originating
in Hokkaido" on my business cards.
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CL
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