From: jfe@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung)
Subject: Re: Sea of East, Korea, Japan.
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:57:18 GMT

In article <QeyeHbq00Vp180zUo3@andrew.cmu.edu> Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Mr. Komatsu,
>
>                                        Hi! Although your infomation
>about  the Sea of  East, Ko-ryu, Nippon is informative it is however
>lame. If we  were to use commonsense for a minute,  maybe  we would
>realize that Ko-ryu is closer 

	Um, what the heck is Ko-ryu?  I looked at my Rand-McNally for
hours and hours, and then zipped over to PC-Globe, but darn it, I can't
find this country.  (Don't respond to this one, this is just a joke, okay?)
>
>Is Russia closer to this sea than either Zhong Guo, Corea or Nihon?
>Did  Zhong Guo, Corea and Nippon exist before the 17th and 18th centuries?
>Did  the people of Ko-ryo have an intelligent way of communication?

	Answer to the last question, "Damn, I hope so!"  I think we
climbed up the evolutionary ladder to the language stage a LONG time before
the Persians ran into us.  (Um, you probably don't want to respond to this
one, either.  Unless you were really insinuating that we didn't have an
intelligent way of communicating.) 

B
>When did the Japanses begin to accept that the Caucasian culture is the
>only individuals who have unquestionable  right as to where what is and
>what it should be called?
>
>                                     Now,  before you shared your
>research with us I was about make a compromise and call this the Sea of
>the East. I think that everyone can share these god given waters. I have
>decided at this point to 
>call this, "The Ko-ryuan(Korean) Sea!!"  And may live as such, forever.

	Well, see what everyone is ignoring here is that it's a real
bitch to change the official name of anything.  Also, if we were going
to change the name of the Sea of Japan just because it was named by a
foreigner and/or a Japanese conspiracy, we might as well go all the way
and change Korea to Corea, or even better, to Hankuk.  After all, K/Corea
is a name given to us by the Persians when they encountered us during
the Koryo Era.  And Japan can insist that they throw away the name Japan
and use Nippon.  And Germany can insist that they throw away the name 
Germany and use Deutschland.  And, etc., etc...  

	It's nice to insist that everyone call us by what we'd like to
be called.  But let's not go too far here, Sea of Japan has become an
accepted standard, just like English Channel and Persian Gulf.  Oh, and
to that person who said "Sea of East" is too ambiguous to be used as
an official name, take a look at that body of water off the coast of
Scotland.  Last time I checked, that body of water is still called
[drum roll please], the "North Sea!"
>                                                                        
>                                                          I see
>that you also call yourself  "Xavier".  Great men of reseach have strode
>to be unbiased.
>
	Silly ad hominem attack.  No need for me to get into this.

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