On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:25:09 +0900, Raj Feridun
<rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:08:30 +0900, Michael Cash
><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:01:51 +0900, Raj Feridun
>><rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
>>with:
>>
>>>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:33:41 +0900, Michael Cash
>>><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:48:10 +0900, Raj Feridun
>>>><rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
>>>>with:
>>>
>>>>>No, I do not and I resent this characterization of a person you don't
>>>>>even know. 
>>>
>>>>Wow. That's precisely the reason we resent being labelled racists by
>>>>you.
>>>
>>>Touche. In my defense I had the evidence of your racist rantings.
>>
>>Then perhaps you will do me the very large favor of quoting back to me
>
>Sheesh, now I have to go and reload all the damned headers again. OK,
>I'll get back to you on this one.


I'll save you the trouble. Here are my comments up until the point
where you took (and gave) offense:

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Ed has done nothing more than say what I've been restraining myself
from saying for quite some time.

I was thinking today that the shortest book one could possibly write
would be "The Japanese: A Compendium Of Their Altruistic Acts"

I was also thinking that I really really really need to make an effort
to get out and be around Japanese who aren't driving so that I can
remind myself that Japanese aren't 100% assholes 100% of the time.

I was also thinking that the primary difference between a Japanese
roadway and a porcupine is the number of pricks per square inch. (It's
higher on Japanese roadways, in case you didn't know).

Japan and the Japanese are very interesting in that the less you know
about them, the easier they are to like. The longer you stay here and
the more you learn about them, the greater becomes the contempt with
which one regards them. The secret to staying relatively happy and
maintaining some slight grasp on your sanity is to studiously avoid
picking up too much information on them.

It's as though when we arrive in Japan we are handed a large glass
full of water, which represents all the love we are ever going to have
for the place and the people, and we have to carry it around with us
at all times. Things we learn about the place startle us, or the
people's behavior jostles us, and there goes some of the water
sloshing out of the glass. We're all going to spill some; it can't be
helped. But after a while you realize that you have to make a
concerted effort to hang onto what remains in the glass. This is a
large part of the reason that I purposely avoid news items about this
place these days. There is never anything that raises the place or the
people in my estimation, and my glass has little enough remaining in
it as it is.
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