On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:31:22 +0900, Raj Feridun
<rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:22:16 +0900, Michael Cash
><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:22:40 +0200, "Haluk Skywalker"
>><yokoolebiri@spam.net> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
>>>I still wonder if it was a Japanese who faded, would it be any different...
>>
>>No, it would very likely have been the same thing.
>>
>>Here's a post I made last January: http://tinyurl.com/x3hu
>>
>>....and here is the part of the story I refrained from telling at the
>>time, which is *why* I was calling 110:
>
>>If I'm a racist toward the Japanese, maybe it's because they've made
>>me one.
>
>Michael, please: ethnocentric. Both racism and ethnocentrism are not
>something we feel "towards" anyone. It's just a case of feeling one's
>own race or group is superior.

It is neither racism nor ethnocentrism. It is merely an opinion formed
based on numerous empirical observations. I don't necessarily think
either group superior or inferior to the other. I have merely observed
that the Japanese display an alarming tendency to be uncaring assholes
at times. It's their shoe, it fits, and they can damned well wear it.
No one has any business taking offense at the truth about themselves.
Nor do others have any business taking offense by proxy.