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From: joao+@CS.CMU.EDU (Joao Costeira)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: leituras
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:16:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bt4vqx.KAu.1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University


 Ola, 
 Para quem nao assina a Scientific American recomendo que compre o
numero de Setembro (nos States; as versoes Europeias estao
desfazadas).
 O referido numero e uma edicao especial, intitulada "Mind and the
Brain".  E uma coleccao de 11 artigos so' sobre os varios aspectos e
propriedades da mente humana. Um dos artigos e' da autoria de Antonio
R. Damasio e Hanna Damasio (ambos Portugueses ta' claro, e
investigadores da Universidade do Iowa ) sobre a Linguagem e o
Cerebro.
  Divirtam-se.
 Joao Paulo.
From: abreu@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Abreu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Electronic Matchmaker
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:31:46 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <1992Aug21.124432.4045@infodev.cam.ac.uk> saparici@crc.ac.uk (Dr.
S.A.J.R. Aparicio) writes:

 > [...]
 > What do you mean by handicapped. Are you inferrring that Portuguese
 > living abroad are in some way socially handicapped?

Joao is writing from abroad so I doubt he's implying that. As a matter
of fact, I don't think he's referring to Portuguese people, in particular,
at all.

 > Do you know any culture where it is the accepted norm "ask for help"
 > in public in finding a male or female partner

I don't. The Indian culture, however, goes some way towards it with
arranged marriages. Apparently things get a bit hot when the daughters
in the home refuse to get married early (17-18ish). Soon, it becomes a
matter that concerns the whole family. On the whole, though, the norm
is more "here he/she is" rather than "would someone like to."

Um abrac,o
Hamilton


PS: Procura-se. Jovem, aspecto jovial. Sexo feminino. Para companhia.
Beleza requerida. Para possivel relacao amorosa. Inteligencia requerida.
Para possivel compromisso. Ambicao requerida. Para possivel casamento.
Bondade requerida. Para possivel procriacao. Forte personalidade
requerida. Para irmos longe. Abertura de mentalidade requerida. Para
me levar a serio. Perfeicao requerida. Para me aturar. Para exemplos
dos adjectivos acima, mandar envelope auto-enderecado e selado para...

?

Cade^ o enderec,o do tal coiso electronico?....
From: Anne-Christine.Pinho@dcal.unine.ch
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Quem conhece a RTPi ?
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:22:46 GMT
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland


Ola leitores do SCP,

Desde o principio do mes de julho, recebo  RTP internacional.

Queria saber onde e tambem retransmitida a RTPi.

Ana Cristina
From: joao+@CS.CMU.EDU (Joao Costeira)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Electronic Matchmaker
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:48:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bt8H0p.sw.1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <64278@cup.portal.com>, Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com writes:
|> Portuguese women, having a problem finding a Portuguese man?  I am 
|> about to launch a free electronic matching service on Usenet.  Thanks 
|> to the imbalance of men to women on Usenet, more guys than gals have 
|> expressed an interest so far.  If you would like to see the fifth 
|> draft of my questionnaire so we can alter it to also fit women's 
|> needs as well as men's, either send me mail or look at the copy I 
|> posted in alt.personals.  
|>  
|> This service is serious and I already have 310 men and 174 women
|> signed up so far.  The site of the service has already been selected
|> and programming is nearly completed.
|>  
|> I should point out that this questionnaire really, really, really,
|> needs some more input on CULTURES.  I need some questions to make
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> sure that matches are compatible culturally.
|>  
|>                                                           Eric Klien

 A very important CULTURAL value is that Portugueses (men and women) don't need and dont' ask for help to finding a man/women (major limitation but that's life). However I find this amusing and distressing; basically this service is a kind of relief for matching "handicaped". The bad thing is that there wont't be enough parking spots in malls....
From: Paul.Baggott@newcastle.ac.uk (Paul.Baggott)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Campsites in the Algarve
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:21:18 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU

I'm planning on taking my holidays in the Algarve and need a list
of campsites or other (very) cheap accomodation. If anyone can
help me I'd be very grateful.

Also, is Faro University on the net? Any accomodation there?
 
Paul.Baggott@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: lima@pluto.ral.rpi.edu (Pedro Lima)
Subject: Discussoes `a portuguesa
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:45:48 GMT

Cari'ssimos:

Estava eu quase com vontade de "desabafar" e fazer ver aos restantes
leitores/participantes da SCP que estas discussoes intimo/publicas,
'dou-te eu/levas tu/comem todos' tinham pouco a ver com os objectivos
da SCP, quando fui de su'bito iluminado pelo anjo da guarda de Portugal
que me mostrou a verdade:

	ISTO SIM, E' QUE E' A CO'LTURA PORTUGUESA!

Pedro Lima
lima@ral.rpi.edu

... ou nao fosse a cultura que distingue os povos...

Feel free to ask any questions about this posting to the email address
above. Trashing will not be considered. All rights of public reproduction
reserved.
From: saparici@crc.ac.uk (Dr. S.A.J.R. Aparicio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Electronic Matchmaker
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:44:32 GMT
Reply-To: saparici@crc.ac.uk (Dr. S.A.J.R. Aparicio)
Organization: University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine

In article <Bt8H0p.sw.1@cs.cmu.edu>, joao+@CS.CMU.EDU (Joao Costeira) writes:

>  A very important CULTURAL value is that Portugueses (men and women) don't need and dont' ask for help to >finding a man/women (major limitation but that's life). However I find this amusing and distressing; >basically this service is a kind of relief for  matching "handicaped". The bad thing is that there wont't >be enough parking spots in malls....

I'm not sure whether I should be replying in Portuguse or English here.

What do you mean by handicapped. Are you inferrring that Portuguese living abroad are in some way
socially handicapped?

Do you know any culture where it is the accepted norm "ask for help" in public in finding a male
or female partner


Samuel Aparicio

MRC Molecular Genetics Unit
Cambridge CB2 2QH.

saparici@fugu.med.cam.ac.uk
saparici@mrc-crc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: schreib@fzi.de (Hardy)
Subject: Choose a present!
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Keywords: tsumaranai mono desu ga ...
Reply-To: schreiber@fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:17:42 GMT


I shall travel to Japan this year in october and will also visit my penpal.
As I've read, Japanese people usually offer presents when they visit each
other. Some years ago I also got a present from a Japanese who visited me.

Therefore here's my question: 
Which present would YOU (JAPANESE WOMEN) like to get from a German tourist? 
(leather trousers, Solingen knifes, beer, ...???)

My preferred present shouldn't be heavy, since I'm travelling by train.
So, Neuschwanstein castle (1:100) isn't possible.

I'm looking forward to your answer.

--

Hartmut (schreiber@fzi.de)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Singapore and Yamamoto
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:50:21 GMT

fester@etorofu.island.COM () writes:

>To Mr Jim Breen;

>From _2142 Days of War_, p 209: There were 51 Hurricanes at Singapore. They
>were flown there from Libya immediately after Pearl Harbor, and were still
>equipped with their desert filters over the air inlets. The first Japanese
>raid on Singapore resulted in the loss of 9 of the 10 unescorted Bettys. The
>second raid was escorted with Hurricanes, and 17 of the Hawker's aircraft
                                 ^----------Zeros?
>were shot down.

Thank you. I stand corrected. If they were the Hurricanes from Libya, it is no
wonder they were outmatched by Zeros. They were elderly models which were
sadly lacking in performance. They had done sterling service against the Italians
in the desert, but the quality of the Italian planes was a standing joke.

Rather than go on upgrading the Hurricane aiframe, as Supermarine did with
the Spitfire, Hawker produced the Typhoon and Tempest, the latter vieing with
the P41 as being the highest performance Allied fighter in the war. None were as
good as the Messerschmidt 262.

-- 
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Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<SMITTIE.92Aug18124612@beach.csulb.edu> <4328@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:52:28 GMT

>I see.  So it is the Chinese who caused the problem.  Not the massacre by
>the Japanese.  Nor the Japanese history books which failed to acknowledge
>the massacre.

No, you don't see. You are twisting my words. The Chinese did not cause the
problems between 1931 and 1945. They were the victims. However, those who
continue to teach and promote hatred will very likely be the cause of future
problems.

I do not wish to lessen the severity of the past. I question the perpetuation
of hatred into the future.

smittie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: sakata@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Henry Sakata)
Subject: Yakudoshi--Information Needed
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:57:02 GMT

Hello, everyone.

Could someone please help me.  I've been invited to a 
"Yakudoshi" in honor of a friend.  I am unfamiliar with the 
customs of a yakudoshi.  As a guest, what is the customary 
protocol?  Is bringing a gift normal, and what does one usually 
give?

As an American of Japanese descent, I suddenly feel an ignorance 
for my heritage.  Therefore, could some enlightened soul please 
impart their knowledge and wisdom in regards to yakudoshi 
customs.  Please e-mail me direct or post to this newsgroup.

Thank you, in advance.
Henry Sakata
Computer Specialist
From: solon@beach.csulb.edu (Todd Allaria)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:49:20 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: yunson@vs2.umd.edu

>Todd


Yes, there is not much point aplogizing after 50 years.  It is 
unbelievable that 50 years has passed without an official 
apology. What a shock to me! Yes (again), the apology won't
serve its purpose now. Too late!!! But late is better than
never, anyway. 

Yunson Du
University of Maryland
College Park

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: japlady@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
Subject: Re: Regarding Japanese T.V...
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:06:51 GMT


I have the feeling, based on my time living in Arita, Saga-ken, Kyushu,
where the town was so small that you couldn't help but see any sort of
satalite dishes, that....

.... The main offices for the local cable system had a huge Dish out front.
From there the signal was cabled to our homes.  I don't know if this was
via some other public works system such as telephone ect.  But then again,
here in chicago the main offices for my cable system also have a huge dish
on the roof, a couple in fact.  So I don't know how that differs.
-- 
Rebecca Radnor                \\ I know everything,
NU Anthroplogy Department     \\ I know nothing
JAP= Jewish.American.Princess \\ I used to put sticks under the back porch 
     & Japan specialist	      \\      and wait for them to petrify.
From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Flowers to Tokyo
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:35:45 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation

In article CyK@world.std.com, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>
>It was suggested to me by a very intelligent chap (take a bow Bill)
>that I might want to send some flowers to someone in Tokyo. I am
>very interested in pleasing the lady , since I am also interested in
>changing our status from engaged to married one of these days. So...
>What kind of flowers should I send and is it inapproprite to send
>them to her office? She is an engineer/project leader in a high
>tech company.
>Other questions would be... How do I arrange for delivery and otherwise
>handle the mechanics, besides just going to see the local FDIC (??sp??)
>florist?

Sending flowers to ladies in Japan is not a common practice as it is here
in the US.  A friend of mine did it in appreciation for a lady once and
she was so happy she cried about it so I guess if you can pull it off, it
will get the point across.  Something more practical might be to buy a
box of nice candy (Godiva, etc.) and send it airmail to her directly.

Good luck.  Let us hope we can offer congratulations soon!

---

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		management, or my mother
From: dww@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Grand master tong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mimana Theory Revisted (due to the Nara tombs being excavated)
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:20:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In the previous article, Mr.Jung Lee said:

>....Chinese and Koreans are pigs....
     ^^^^^^^^
Now what did the Chinese do; I can underwstand the Japanese beings pigs
because of the rape and plunder of KOrea and the alteration of history books.

What DID THE CHINESE DO?????

the master.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china
From: gang@ms.uky.edu (Gang Li)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
    <SMITTIE.92Aug18124612@beach.csulb.edu> <4328@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> 
    <SMITTIE.92Aug19095225@lark.csulb.edu> 
    <Aug.19.14.43.01.1992.1604@sol.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:04:08 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

lixj@sol.rutgers.edu (Xiao-jian Li) writes:

>>I do not wish to lessen the severity of the past. I question the perpetuation
>>of hatred into the future.
>I sincerely hope the A-bomb victim museum in Japan is not for the next
>generation Japaness to drop an A-bomb in Washington.

Who knows, the sword always has two blades. If you want to play with it, be
careful.

>xj
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: emchumbe@athena.mit.edu (Marty)
Subject: Re: mountain bikes & gifts
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:56:16 GMT

Hello,

	I'm planning to go to Osaka sometime around the middle of September for
a full year.  I've been reading the discussion dealing with moutain bikes in 
Japan, and I was kind of surprised that they are THAT EXPENSIVE compared to here.
While I'm going to be in Japan, I would like to get a mountain bike or a touring
bike or a hybrid between the two.  Is it best if I get one here and ship it to
Japan or just buy one when I'm over there.  Before finding out that they are 
that expensive in Japan, I was plannin to buy one over there, but now I'm not 
sure which is best.  Could anybody there help me?  Any information would be
greatly appreciated.  

Many thanks,
-- Marty
   (emchumbe@athena.mit.edu)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
From: zzuo@iastate.edu (Zhiqi Zuo)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:31:40 GMT


>>>   Once I came across a Japanese girl who absentmindly said that Manchuria
>>>   STILL should be Japanese.
>>>
>>>And if you come to Britain you will meet plenty of people who think
>>>that India should still be a British colony; I hope you would not
>>>judge me by what some moronic Brit says.

>>NO, of course not. But it is dangerous for some people to bear the idea, 
>>isn't it?

>I think some ideas that you bear are dangerous. But I don't then go on to
>suppose that all Chinese, or even most Chinese, bear those same ideas.

Yes, asking for facing the historical facts is stupid. Stating the current 
facts are even more foolish. Calling for the understanding of the war, thus
preventing it from happening again, is really dangerous. Pacifism is the most 
teerible thing in the world.

>There are a lot of confused and stupid people in the world.

The clever people are those, surely you are among them, who think 
criticizing Japanese goverment unacceptable and hypocritical, and the one to 
be blamed are the people who were once tortured.

Now, are you understood perfectly?  Robbers' philosophy is safer, isn't it?
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:7019 soc.culture.china:23459 soc.culture.hongkong:9970 soc.culture.taiwan:12137
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:00:30 GMT
	<1992Aug20.173808.6756@news.iastate.edu>
	<1992Aug20.180105.7746@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>NO, of course not. But it is dangerous for some people to bear the idea,
>isn't it?

I think some ideas that you bear are dangerous. But I don't then go on to
suppose that all Chinese, or even most Chinese, bear those same ideas.

There are a lot of confused and stupid people in the world.

smittie

-- 
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________________________|___________________________________________________
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: THE EDUCATION TO BE BLAME. RE:An open letter to emperor
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:57:22 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Aug20.102614.5026@gw.wmich.edu> 31he@gw.wmich.edu writes:

[stuff deleted]

>naughty showed up anger and fear. We read an article talked about some 
>kindergarden education in Japan, teacher put some lovely apples on the table,
>and ask the kids: "Do you like them? Do you want them?" Answer is yes, and then
>"Then go get them. In China, everywhere have..." 
>
	This cannot be true.  In Japan, ANY kind of emphathis on ANY particular 	policies and ANY particular sect of ANY religion cannot be taught at
	public (I mean non-private) schools of any kind. 
	(and I know the recent attitude of Ministry of Education toward the
	 censorship/inspection of history text books *SMELLS* a bit)

	Teachers are supposed to educate their students in a sense of "stuff
	as much information as they can" to have the students pass the almost-
	in-the-hell entrance exams to senior high schools and universities, and
	some even to private kindergartens.  :-<  The history teachers I know
	since my elementary school days NEVER told us what Japanese Army did in
	WW II, about the view how the other victims countries may look at Japan,	and they NEVER told us even to think if it was good or bad.  What they
	did was just read the text books, had us take some notes from the 
	blackboard.  That's it.  Period.

	A teacher or two mentioned about Massacre of Nanking in the classes and
	told us to learn much about this kind of facts and look for information
	from another point of view.  They did this at their own responsibilities        and no one of them seemed to have been advised or punished for this.

	IF, the things like what Mr./Ms. He mentioned above was true, the 
	teacher, most likely a young woman, just had been careless and 
	ignorant about anything (no intention to call any Japanese women 
	ignorant).  At least I can say that this teacher had no intention to 
	EDUCATE the kids in the way some people from other Asian countries
	are afraid of.

					Tetsuya Nishimura
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: Godzilla vs Charles Barkely
Keywords: a tv commercial
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:27:59 GMT

In article <Bsxsvy.n3A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer) writes:
>    Well folks, there is going to be a series of commercials (in the US) featuring Godzilla vs Charles Barkley. Any bets on who will win? :-)

The promotional commercials for this horrific matchup are on the air now,
but the actual battle will air on Sept. 9. (Godzilla looks real cool
in those Kareem-type goggles, but I say he's dead meat. It may be a
tie though. Remember. It's a Nike commercial and Charles wears the
Nike shoes, so he has a definite advantage.)

>-- 
>  HAVE A NICE DAY!                        ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
>(or die trying)--------AAAAAAARG! the paranoids are after me!

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
               CompuServe:  70402,3020
               NIFTY-Serve: GBG01266
From: jly33321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John L.Yoon )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: lotteries
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:00:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bt8EtM.5p4
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

while watching the news this morning, there was a story about the
start of a new lottery in Japan.  Included in the story were pictures
of amazingly long line of people waiting to purchase tickets, people
buying 500 tickets at a time, even the reporter buying a few tickets...

how much do these tickets cost anyway?
-- 
John Yoon                     | University of Illinois CU (MatSci) std.disclaim
jly33321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     |        Ranma 1/2 meets Gilligan's Island
jly33321@antietam.cso.uiuc.edu|    ...for a 3 hour cruise, a 3 hour cruise...
From: lamb@jasper.CS.ORST.EDU (Ben Lam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What about China done to Korea?
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:00:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug20.040016.27706
Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon

In article <1992Aug20.013838.14861@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
>
>I hope this means you'll shut up after the last Japanese of the WWII
>era are dead. But no, somehow I expect you'll find some slippery
>reason for continuing to demand an apology while ignoring your own
>country's evils. I demand all Chinese apologize to the Koreans
>immediately.

May be you can tell me what slippery reasons could I use?

Hmm ... according to your logic, may be US should apologize to China
because US invaded China with seven other Western nations during the
Ching dynasty.  I demand all Americans apologize to the Chinese immediately.

--Ben Lam