We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Jim Breen has
>> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>> 
>>> chuckers wrote:
>>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/mao-inoue-and-jonathan-sherr-to-star-in-my-darling-is-a-foreigner
>>> Well, well. Tony and Saori are friends of mine; I'll have to see it.
>> 
>> Do tell. My wife adores her books. Seems to "find similarities" or something.
>> Hmm.
>
>Mine, too.  However, I get my backies when I read Ata' Shin'chi and 
>point out the similarities between her and Okaasan ... turnabout is fair 
>play ...
>
>>> but 20% of the time I think he's saying and doing
>>> things that I wish more gaigins would say and do. Often we bend
>>> over backwards to accept and defend blatantly xenophobic
>>> actions in the interest of having a quiet life and not making
>>> a fuss.
>> 
>> Heh. Avoid confrontation in the interest of not making a fuss? That sounds like
>> the classic Japanese way of doing things! And they say we refuse to assimilate?!
>
>There's that and there's also picking your battles.  I figure that, if I 
>can influence the outcome about 5% of the time, I'm ahead of the curve 
>for a White Boy in Wa.

Another way to do it is to sic your wife on 'em.


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