skeptic wrote:
> "gknnth" <gknnth@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:1147786373.150253.233880@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> (Why should you eh? Those gooks should speak amErikAn eNgLliSh
>> right?)
> 
> Why should they?  They speak it everywhere else in Asia.

Really? What a remarkable assertion!

>> thus you were unequivocally, brain dead clueless and didn't
>> know that you were surrounded by thousands of advertisements telling
>> you where to go, what to buy and what to pay.
> 
> So shopping malls in Hong Kong have signs in English telling people what to 
> do, but Japanese scream about "imperialism" and refuse to have them.  It's 
> interesting.

Actually, the Japanese tend to become quite silent when the subject of 
imperialism comes up. Seems to make them feel uncomfortable for some reason.

>> I've been in Japan for 25 years I do speak, read, and write
>> Japanese and I have no, zero, zip problems finding precisely what I
>> need in Akihabara and/or any other part of Tokyo.
> 
> If you've been in Japan for 25 years, how do you know what's available 
> outside of Japan, which isn't available in Japan?

Maybe he makes use of the Internet to glean information from informative 
fellows such as yourself.

>> Japan doesn't
>> need you and has been doing just fine without you for more than a 1000
>> years of its civilization.
> 
> Really?  They seemed to need resources and conquered other countries 
> recently.  But failing that, they depend on American capitalism to 
> survive... unless an American wants to buy something, then it's 
> "imperialism" so they do not deserve to buy anything.

Um, these days a majority of Japan's exports go to markets outside the 
United States. It's a global economy, and America is just one (big) 
market among many.

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