In article <35f3116e.0411061736.5482fb44@posting.google.com>,
 LSmithsonvqm@hotmail.com (L Smithson) wrote:

> superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) wrote in message 
> news:<e91ad9af.0410260858.4854c89b@posting.google.com>...
> 
> > Part of the reason japan had such a high life exptectancy rate was a
> > healthier diet than americans.  This however shows that japs would
> > cowardly shorten the lives of their own countrymen just to copy white
> > americans.  I hope this answers your questions.
> 
> The pathology of eating Mc Donalds has nothing to do with being White.
> It could have easily been associated instead with being stupid,
> Christian, or American, or even fat (given that most Mc Donalds
> clients are fat, and  and American-like). It is curious that someone
> would attempt to racialize the degeneracy of eating Mc Donald's foods.
> I dare say that such hermeneutics only point to the mental state of
> the individual that constructs it.

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Last time I checked, Japanese had the longest life expectancy.  The 
prefecture in Japan with the longest life expectancy was Okinawa.

Surprised?  Okinawa is the poorest prefecture in Japan.  The diet 
there consists of lots of vegetables and fish -- not much beef.

earle
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