vernon.north@oyama.ca wrote:

> In article <365fcc52.0307190949.3dfc3305@posting.google.com>,
> kaz@ivebeenframed.com says...
> 
>> Except Osaka, Tokyo, and maybe US, those people and
>> country of Canada, New Zealand and Korea are well-known to us as
>> hostile people, countries. And I guess nobody except such "honorary
>> White" kind of people like Daigoro would be interested in getting
>> along with those people. It's not "I can't get along". It's "I don't
>> want to get along". I'm just avoiding those people. Do you see the
>> difference?
> 
> Yes.  You're a racist and he's not. It's quite clear.

I'm glad there's at least someone here who sees that. :)

>> Here is a funny story, I had a Canadian business mate in Japan. He was
>> from Nova Scotia. He shamelessly ordered me that "you have to shoot
>> pool to get along with Canadians". Actually I was the buyer and he was
>> the sellers, but he was ordering me to shoot pool. I don't like that
>> kind of game, but he forced me to speak English and shoot pool. Isn't
>> this ridiculous? If I was a seller selling something to them, it would
>> be ok, but it was diametrically opposite situation. If Canadians were
>> communists, I would have agreed it, but AFAIK, they are not. He was
>> thinking Canadians are superior to the Japanese so the Japanese must
>> behave like the superior Canadians or something, I guess.
> 
> Mind-reading again, huh?  You've got to stop that.  Or at least don't
> try it unless you're wearing a tin foil hat with good antennae.

Just 'cause someone says "You have to shoot pool to get along with 
Canadians" doesn't mean he is ORDERING you to play pool, either...

Dai

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