Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!proxad.net!proxad.net!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: jamessmith_005@yahoo.co.jp (Masayuki) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Politicians block comic over 'fake' Nanjing Massacre tale Date: 22 Oct 2004 19:52:54 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4ee924f.0410221852.7b84a714@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0410141040.6f70a6c4@posting.google.com> <2torgqF22mfpoU2@uni-berlin.de> <2tosvdF22ue6mU2@uni-berlin.de> <4177C52F.9EB3AAA3@yahoo.co.jp> <41786E02.D50E6C97@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.186.4.60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1098499974 4971 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2004 02:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20036 "Scott Reynolds" 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 > -- > _______________________________________________________________ > Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com