"Jason O'Rourke" <jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message news:bdh4jo$rcv$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> Tesselator <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Actually I think it's more rude to incinuate that someone is not polite
> >by top posting than it is to top post.  But that's comming from a guy
> >who moved out of the USA cuz he thought most Americans were too rude to
> >deal with and moved to Japan where the people are known for politeness.
>
> Clearly you're male.


Ya.  But I have heard all kinds of women say the same thing.  _Every_
international person that I've encountered in the last 15years here
says the same thing.  Much more often the complaint is that Japanese
people and the society are /too/ polite.  But I can understand your
nationalism in light of recent events.



> You're talking about a society where the men have
> absolutely no reluctance to shove a woman to the deck in order to get
> the last seat on the subway.

Never happens.  Man, really...  never...



> A country that has had the need to
> implement single sex cars because of the pervasive sexual assualt.

Interesting...  There may be such a thing but I travel alot here for my job
durring certian seasons, watch the news almost daily, and read the newspaper
as often as I can, and have never seen nor heard of such things.

Man, where are you getting this stuff?  I mean sure there are exceptions.
Like crazy people who need help.  Here they might push a woman for a seat.
In the usa the same crazy person rapes, stabs, and kills the woman, blows
up a building or lights a forest fire...  But if you want to bring up the
subject of violent nuts it's /much/ more of a problem in the USA.  On an
incidental level of thousands to one and magnitudinally immeasurable.
If someone were to push a woman to the floor for a seat on a subway it
would be such an event that it would be very likely to make the evening
news.

    - Ah ha, perhapps this is what you saw or heard?


> One that is incredibly racist.

Yes every country is racist to some degree.  But trying to compare the
little bit of shunning that occurs here with the rampid outbreaks of
rioting, daily murders, over-sensitivity, and etc. that exists in the
USA...  Wow...  You just can't...  No, really..  there's no comparisson.

Please watch Micheal Moore's  "Bowling For Collumbine" for an idea of
the statistical differences between the USA and other countries with
regards to violence.

I guess you are in Berkeley so that's a pretty nice place as places go
but you should look outside of your local community.  You may be shocked
at what you see.

Or did you already know everything I just said and were just trying to
burn me for posting dumb stuff about the textual structure of NNTP
replies?

If so I missed it and should have just made a joke or something.  If not
however you really are unaware of what daily life in Japan is like and
how it differs from that of the USA.

That's cool though...  What I first came here I half expected to see
Samurai dudes roamming the streets with swords in formal kimono.

                                                                  O :-)


> I guess I could imagine a few reasons to move out there indefinitely, but
> the polite society would not be one of them.
>
> -- 
> Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com


I'll not argue this further as the entire subject of American (USA)
violence is repulsive to me.  If you have some specific and sincere
questions about the issue feel free to email me privatly.