Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!mauve.octanews.net!198.186.190.95.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!nr3.newsreader.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:46:21 +0900 From: Scott Reynolds User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.travel.asia,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.thai Subject: Re: Japan Sucked, but not the people. References: <1145689700.617218.150140@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1147786373.150253.233880@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <4j0bg.89292$dW3.27333@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> In-Reply-To: <4j0bg.89292$dW3.27333@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 47 Message-ID: <446d02dd$0$22140$ed362ca5@nr3.newsreader.com> Organization: NewsReader.Com Subscriber NNTP-Posting-Host: 78bee54d.nr3.newsreader.com X-Trace: DXC=;X`MML=eWe^^aLO\TaP_G^OA8_@f\K_iRO3l?gPj53>U^\8M4WMPCm_jQXjEJ7Oi\T_eN`M3Y:T0VlY@19A?TgfX X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsreader.com Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:162980 skeptic wrote: > "gknnth" 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. -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds scottreyn@gmail.com