Raj Feridun wrote:

> >However, let's not forget samaritan americans' family culture.  So busy
> >sacrificing themselves for others, they forget to take care of themselves
> >and their own flesh and blood:  parents disowning/kicking their kids out of
> >home (or vice-versa), all the fuck-the-children divorces and lousy
> >step-parenting, the tendency of people to live as absolutely far from their
> >parents as possible, the culture where "housewife" is a perjorative term,
> >the non-functioning extended family, and the desire of elderly parents to
> >live in an abusive nursing home rather than with their own offspring.
>
> A ray of hope shines into the darkness.

No it is you attempting a diversion again. We are talking about Japan, not the
US. I feel the same way about problems in the US and elsewhere, the same as many
people here. People here shit on their own hometowns for some reason.

> Thanks for this, Hibijibi.
> You've said a mouthful. I don't spite you one bit for agreeing with
> Ed's original rant since at least least you're not going off as if
> everything unkind and uncaring in this world is a Japanese
> prerogative.

Who claimed this? You haven't explained this yet.