On 11/23/2003 9:08 PM, Raj Feridun wrote:

> Because I get very VERY sad to think that I'll never go home again no
> matter how nice life here is. Dorothy SAID there's no place like home.
> She's right.

Well, then you should be aware that most of the people you have been 
calling ignorant, elitist, racist (etc., etc.) are here for the long 
term, many probably permanently. (I include myself in this group, BTW.)

But then again you gave yourself away with your "if you don't like it, 
go home" comment. You don't seem to understand that for many of the 
regulars in this group (and, specifically, for the ones you have been so 
busy insulting) Japan IS home.

And what Ed wrote is what all of us have felt at one time or another. To 
pretend that the coldness of the Japanese toward others in public 
settings, and the shocking lack of compassion or even consideration 
toward strangers, is some sort of "racist, elitist" lie is simply to 
deny reality. It surely is the least attractive aspect of this country, 
and it does get to you sometimes.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that it has never bothered you?

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com