"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message 
news:clavro$q8d$2@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> On 10/22/2004 4:25 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
>> in article clac95$t42$2@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp, Scott Reynolds at
>> sar@gol.com wrote on 10/22/04 4:19 PM:
>>
>>
>>>On 10/22/2004 1:05 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>By the way, Yoshida's comments were both bigoted and racist.
>>>
>>>Really? He thinks the Chinese belong to an inferior race?
>>
>>
>> Yes, to the degree that he thinks them too emotional, too political, and too
>> inclined towards exaggeration.
>>
>> Anti-Chinese bias is of course not new in Japan, and he is not the first
>> Japanese to espouse such a bias.
>
> True, but it strikes me as odd to describe it as racism.

Perhaps, he is surrounded by a wide variety of racists like his Jpn wife,
Jpn parents-in-law, children, Jpn relatives, Jpn neighbours, Jpn community 
members, etc. Therefore his attitude against me may be regarded as an 
outlet for his frustrations with his life in Japan, I suppose.  It would be 
sort of "amae" which Dr Takeo Doi conceptualised.

Masayuki

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> Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com