"Kay" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:zc2Ha.76$H21.26292@news.uswest.net...

> I used an example just to illustrate. As I said,
> it is not an isolated incident.  My father was
> arrested by the Japanese just before the WWII ended;
> he was in China at the time.  He lived there until
> he died in 1992.

If your father was arrested by the Japanese occupational authorities just
before the war ended
then he must have been freed quite soon.
Unless he was detained further by the Chinese authorities.

>  I know what you are going to say;
> that he lived there because he liked it there.  No.
> He lived there because he could not come home
> empty-handed.

So was he forced to stay and China until his death? Or did he choose to do
so?
What do you mean by "empty-handed"?

> Anyway, he told me the treatment he
> and his friends got there.  I do not expect any
> foreigner is treated equally any place.  I have been
> living in the US for several decades.  In the early
> days, I was looked upon as an odd being.  It is much
> better today but we still have a lot of white
> Americans like USA, who will treat us OK as long as
> we agree with them.  The minute we disagree, we are
> treated like an inferior foreign devil.
>
You are right Kay. And one day you'll thank me for letting you in on this
truth as unfortunate as it may be.
Because you are a minority, Asian in particular, you will be highly
sucepatable to "Go home Chink" type of
racist comments from all non-asian americans if you speak out loudly against
the United States.
It is Wrong, it is Racist and completely without rational foundation. Yet it
is the truth.
It is not just White Americans who may take this attitude, it is Black and
Hispanic Americans as well.
You said you have been on the US for a long time Kay. Were you here during
1966-1973 when
anti-asian sentiment ran high because of the Vietnam War? Any Asian
regardless of where they were from,
regardless of how many generations they may have been Americans were looked
upon as "gooks".


> What I am trying to say is that Japanese are no
> different from Koreans, Americans, or any other
> nationals. It is human nature.  Japanese especially treated
> Koreans because the latter was subjects of the former
> in recent history.  I am merely surprised that you and Kaz,
> with the help of racists like USA, are trying to defend
> non-defendable.

Again you single me out as a Racist. Why? What exactly am I trying to
defend?
The point I made was that there are more Korean posters who display racism
towards Japanese
than the other way around. This is nothing more than a numerical fact.
This becomes very noticable because there are very few Japanese posters in
the first place as compared
to Korean ones. Additionally, there has been a suggestion made that the vast
majority of such racist
comments are being posted by a few select "nutcase" Korean posters.
How you managed to blow this simple factual observation into this kind of an
enormous issue is beyond me.