in article d1olah$254b$1@nwall1.odn.ne.jp, bitter anko at anko@eater.com
wrote on 3/22/05 5:31 PM:

> 
> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BE64A22F.DB93%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> in article yau%d.157990$Th1.69209@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net,
> Ethan
>> Hammond at eshammond@worldnet.att.net wrote on 3/21/05 3:52 PM:
>> 
>>> "bitter anko" <anko@eater.com> wrote in message
>>>> 
>>>> Burakumins are well-known snobbish people, the newly rich class. Actually,
>>>> Etas were rich in the Tokugawa period because they had a monopoly of
>>>> selling leathers and some other products. But while some Etas get poor
>>>> after their monopoly was confiscated by the Meiji restoration, as the
>>>> samurai privileges were confiscated, many of them got more richer because
>>>> of the Japanese started to eat meat. The more market for them expanded.
>>>> 
>>>> And now, those you are saying as poor burakumins are actually not
>>>> burakumins. At least in Kansai, they are well known fake
>>>> burakumins(so-called "ese-dowa") who want to get all those welfares from
>>>> government. Many of them are Koreans.
>>>> 
>>> This is either the one of the funniest or one of the most ignorant things I
>>> have ever read, I just can't decide.  Burakumin = unspoken outcasts in
>>> Japanese society who used to clean up the battlefields which was one of the
>>> worst jobs you could have and made them the lowest of the low.
>>> 
>> This is not the first time that Kaz has given the impression that he thinks
>> that the burakumin consider themselves his superior. We don't know his
>> background, but it is really something to be snubbed by the underclass.
> 
> Did everyone see it? This is showing how Earnest is such a silly
> subconscious racist who is obsessed with their silly hierarchical criteria,
> then difine every other person in his silly criteria that his lovely
> educational mother taught him. Ernest, please throw away your lovely
> comforter your mother had supplied to you.

Kaz, I realize that your life is probably poor (most racists are less than
successful in life), but it takes a lot to be looked down by outcasts of
society, snubbed by people forced to do the tasks too unclean for the
average Japanese. Personally, I don't blame anyone for snubbing him.