Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!86233af0!not-for-mail From: ST User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Macintosh/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.usa Subject: Re: More proof white-wannabe japs just mimic americans References: <418003D6.86BB189A@yahoo.co.jp> <41805BB0.AEA90B4E@yahoo.co.jp> <4180FDE5.4EF01CF3@yahoo.co.jp> <4182831D.233BD3F1@yahoo.co.jp> <41832351.15972E6B@yahoo.co.jp> <41847169.218FCCF1@yahoo.co.jp> <_ifhd.782$a24.768@trndny07> <70qdo05300oqr2v1qt3nkta96052nvg819@4ax.com> <7QBkd.11472$Gm6.10689@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:26:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.81.147.244 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1100154418 69.81.147.244 (Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:26:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:26:58 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21738 tm wrote: > ST wrote: > >>tm wrote: >> >>>ST wrote: > > >>>>I was hoping they would be a place where people could debate issues, > > >>>In the soc.culture ngs? Is too laugh. >>> >>> >>>>share news, ask questions. Instead I get the impression that it is more >>>>like a place for those nutty street corner preacher types and "the end >>>>is coming" folks (not to mention angry teenagers). Too bad. >> >>TM, are there any newsgroups that have a higher quality content? > > > Yes. Many. Just avoid the soc.culture ngs, they are a sewer of > crossposted nonsense. > What issues do you want to debate? China/US affairs, General China international affairs, Internal Chinese affairs, U.S. (mis)perceptions of China... basically anything along those lines. I am also just interested in talking about and hearing about various places in China... travelogues, points of interest, etc. It would be good if they were in English as well (though pinyin would be fine). I speak Mandarin but I can't read it very well. -ST