"John Yamamoto-Wilson" <j-yamamo@sophia.ac.jp> wrote in message
news:bbilmt$9n175$1@ID-169501.news.dfncis.de...
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
>
> > Bread is the shushoku of gaikoku. While this is not true, I tell it to
> > Japanese every chance I get because everybody likes being told things
they
> > already know. It's my own contribution to international interchange
among
> > peoples of various foreign countries and Japan.
>
> Perhaps you could further the principle of international interchange of
> wotsits by explaining that if they don't get the right balance of bread
and
> meat they go unrestrainably berserk and immediately go on a rampage of
rape,
> plunder and pillage until the dietary balance is restored?

No need to tell them -- actions speak louder than words.

Just last night, I'm in this sushi restaurant looking around for some beef,
when I suddenly go TOTALLY FREAKING APESHIT! I lept over the counter and
held the sushi dude hostage with a cleaver as I bellowed, "You will get some
BEEF and BREAD for mah belly NOW!" I mean, if beef and bread is good enough
for gaikoku, it's good enough for Japan. What the hell ever happened to
internationalization?

> BTW, are you a cultural ambassador, or did you just miss your career? ;-)

We are all the cultural ambassadors representing our respective countries.
This is why we must pour our full strength into forming enough international
interchange in a broad range of formats between people from various foreign
countries, etc. and internationally-oriented Japanese.

I would be doing the Japanese people a disservice if I didn't occasionally
go on a drunken, violent rampage. Don't you get disappointed when you go to
the zoo and the bear is sleeping?

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom