Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<BD9E5789.29E2B%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>...
> in article 4177C52F.9EB3AAA3@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
> etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 10/21/04 11:18 PM:
> 
> > Ernest Schaal wrote:
> > 
> >> So far, I have not met a "Masayuki," so that shows nothing.
> > 
> > It shows, Mr. Schaal, and I really mean no sarcasm or insult, that despite
> > your education and experience, far in excess of my own, you still are not
> > seeing much, and your claims of knowing or not knowing a matter does not
> > necessarily lend your arguments any weight at all.
> > 
> > I assume that you are simply too busy with your family or career, or your own
> > life.
> 
> Eric, don't fret about my education and experience. I was fortunate to get
> my three degrees and to have an emotionally and financially rewarding life
> in the law, and I have been luckier than most expats here in my
> circumstances here. Part of my success was due to my own efforts but a large
> part of it was due to the great woman I married and other fortunate
> circumstances, like a job offer in Gifu toward the end of my legal career.
> Right now, I am fortunate enough to be retired in Japan, with the money and
> time to spend traveling and doing other things that I like. I realize that I
> am a very lucky man.
> 
> I am fortunate enough to know my limitations. One limitation is poor foreign
> language skills. I can converse in Japanese to Japanese who know no English,
> but I am under no illusions that my Japanese will ever be as good as many
> expats here. When I take the JLPT this December, I realize that many will
> have an easier time with the test. Believe it or not, the word "Masayuki"
> isn't on the wordlist for any grade of the JLPT (I checked).
> 
> On the other hand, one advantage I have is the reasoning skills needed to
> recognized what is relevant to a topic, and what is not. I can recognize
> which things help prove or disprove a point, and which items are non
> sequiturs. 
> 
> For instance, in this thread, I noticed Yoshida's remark about Chinese and
> instantly recognized that he might be a bigot, so I asked for clarification
> and he gave it to me, in ways he did not expect. Rather than saying "NO,
> that is not what I meant about the Chinese," he proved himself a classic
> bigot by standing by his remarks, and when pressed resorting to attacks on
> my Japanese comprehension, cites to whole books (without pointing to the
> particular passage involved), and other things not germane to the issue.
> Because I was able to focus on the issue at hand, and not let myself get
> sidetracked by things that didn't bear on the issue I raised, I was
> successful in exposing him as a bigot. I don't think that he is the type of
> bigot that would drive a green truck or stab liberal politicians, but he
> does parrot the prejudices of an earlier time.
> 
> By the way, I realize one other limitation of mine is that I take advantage
> of other people's weaknesses: Yoshida's pompous prejudice against the
> Chinese, your tendency toward exaggeration, or Raj's inferiority complex.
> That is not a positive character attribute, and I will work on it.

Give me some citations in this thread which prove that I have
prejudice against the Chinese and am racist.

According to my memory, I just said "Chinese are more emotional and
political than Japanese".  Do you claim these comments asked for 
your criticism?  If yes, then I may get some books on persecution 
complex.

Masayuki