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

>On Feb 6, 10:41?am, mtfes...@netscape.net wrote:
>> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110201ad.html
>>
>> In the words of Captain Malcolm Reynolds (for you Firefly fans): "What
>> a whiner".
>>
>So... why didn't he interview either the author or one of the people
>interviewed in the original article? I actually don't wholly disagree
>with many of the comments in the article; but I also don't think
>there's anything wrong with understanding that Japanese will always
>see the white person as a foreigner, and I don't thing the concept
>will every have anything to do with legal status.

^This. There is a vast difference between "equal treatment under the law" and
"equal treatment under society", the latter of which is far less important --
and far more subjective. It may have irked me before, but after 19 years, I
couldn't care less whether anyone sits next to me on the frickin' bus.


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