On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:14:09 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
wrote:

>On 11/25/2003 5:52 PM, Raj Feridun wrote:
>
>> For the umpteenth time I think painting ALL Japanese with a broad
>> "uncaring" brush smacks of racism. 
>
>If people were painting ALL Japanese with a broad and unflattering brush 
>you would perhaps be justified in making a charge of ethnocentrism. But 
>I still fail to see the racism. Are the Japanese a distinct race now?

I was aware of this even as the word kept getting slung about even
harder and harder in here. Yes, I want to back off from the whole
RACISM thing anyway like I said. It was the snobby "our shit don't
smell" tone of the posts that really pissed me off whether it was
actually there or not. I read it in there. 

>> But that didn't bother me nearly as
>> much as the snobby elitist tone of the posts which was what initially
>> prompted me to respond so angrily.

>I didn't see the snobby elitism either, I'm afraid.

Like I said. Sorry, I did. We just disagree on this.