From: rtang@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (The One Your Mother Warned You About!)
Subject: Re: Sex, Power and the Decline of the White American Male [LONG]
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:01:09 GMT

In article <1avf3nINN1t6@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>In article <BvqvDL.Lon@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> rtang@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (The One Your Mother Warned You About!) writes:
>>Yes the U.S. better get its act together, if it expects to CATCH UP with 
>>Japan.  Japanese classes are already being flooded with students in
>>North America wanting to learn the language of this economic super power.
>>Some are even moving there for work, and some even for good.
I've only stated the facts as it pertains to the popularity of
Japanese language classes in Universities.
>>
>>Sayonara, omae-tachi!  ;)
>
>Dude, let's not pretend that Japanese are saviours of race relations.  
Never say that.  In fact it is my opinion the Japan has
one of the poorest race relationships for a country in its position.

>Prejudice against foreigners is not treated with any guilt over there, particularly
>against  Asian-Americans or other some such subspecies.  Regardless of all the
>money the Japanese make, it all goes to investment in new facilities, since
>the fragile superpower cannot afford to be an economic giant without
>intervention in other countries' economies.  Their living standard is still
>rather pathetic, which will never change unless the population density
I am quite aware of those points you've made.

>decreases by 50-80%.  If you think that Asian American women go head-over-
>heels to date blond/blue-eye white knights, you haven't seen Japanese women,
I am not sure what you are  implying, but as for me I'm going for
the adventure and likely to get a high paying job there.

>or the crudeness by which they judge people by their appearances.  Japan
>is a very closed society and will continue to be for the indefinite future,
>just that they become more skillful at entertaining foreign guest workers
>(w/o revealing their true prejudices).  So the Japanese now how to make
I am aware of Japanese prejudices, no need to hide it. Just more
pleasant to live with. Although one would hope eventually they
would give up those prejudices.

>some high-tech devices better than we do, but what does that have anything
>to do with leadership/management skills.  Much of Made in Japan products
I didnt even say they have better leadership/management skills.

>today are assembled by laborers in other parts of Asia, exploiting cheap
>labor costs.  Once the yen reaches parity with the dollar, it will be questionable
>whether they can continue to be an economic miracle.

I think you have missed the entire point of my post. Japan
for some reason or another is starting to be PERCEIVED as
an economic superpower, and is a threat to North American
economic power.  I was using strong words to provoke Americans
into thinking about learning what the Japanese are doing right,
and also to develop their own formula for the nation's success.
Rather then doing Japan bashing, and saying "well, we're better
then them at some things...they're suceeding because they
do that...".