From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Caucasians don't understand
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:52:50 GMT

In article <SHAW.92Aug14222100@whopper.lcs.mit.edu> shaw@whopper.lcs.mit.edu
(Andy Shaw) writes:
>...
>Even in foreign countries, white foreigners are often treated very well,
>because they are automatically assumed to have some sort of power, whether
>it is economic, diplomatic, military, or just some magical power emanating
>from their skin that causes them to be some sort of super-human.  Mike
>Fester whines about being white in Japan: although there are quite a few
>annoying things that whites will experience in Japan that they won't
>experience in the US, I would _definitely_ not say that being white in
>Japan is even _close_ to being the same as being Asian in the US.
>...

Usually, Mr. Shaw spouts a lot of Chinese-cu cultural sh*t.

But this particular paragraph is not.  The Japanese view European-Americans
and Europeans far better than they view non-Japanese Orientals.  I fault
the Japanese for this prejudice, but I understand some of their biases
against the Chinese-cu, who are essentially savage baboons.

Mr. Fester (fester@island.com) is lying and manipulating the true 
picture of Japan to portray himself as the European-American analog
of an Asian-American.  He wants to show that he has "suffered" in
Japan.  To that, I say, "Try again, Sam."

Mr. Shaw is quite right to say that the Japanese are "thrilled" to
see white foreigners.  To the Japanese, a Frenchman can speak
English far better than any Thai-ge born in the USA.  Why?  The
Frenchman is white; he "must" English.  Even in the commercials
on Japanese TV, when there are foreigners used to advertise 
products, they are usually white.

(I'm not whining.  I'm just pointing out that Mr. Fester is lying
when he says that he's "suffered" to the same degree as certain other
people.)

The standard of beautiful skin among Japanese, especially women, is white skin.
It is a rude thing to say to a Japanese lady, "Your skin is darker
than hers."  Of course, most Japanese men don't want to marry
non-Japanese Orientals.  If they can't marry Japanese, they'd rather
marry white.

What I've said is neither a joke nor an exaggeration.  I really
do understand how Korean-Japanese feel.  They are Koreans
_with_ Japanese citizenship.  (But most Koreans in Japan don't
want Japanese citizenship but bitch anyways.)  In the eyes of the
Japanese, they can never be as "good" as the "real" Japanese-ge or
Europeans-ge.

>...
>More than 80% of white people in Japan can't speak a decent sentence of
>Japanese.  Whites in Japan often act like boors, and expect everyone to
>speak English for them and wait on them hand and foot.  The biggest "white
>ghetto" in Japan is Roppongi in Tokyo, which is one of the most expensive
>areas in Japan, and probably the hippest as well.
>...

Mr. Shaw should have seen that buffoon at the Hard Rock Cafe, basically
octopus-ing this Japanese lady.  It was quite a sight.

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