From: jfriedl@omron.co.jp (Jeffrey Friedl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese immigration
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:39:06 GMT
Reply-To: jfriedl@omron.co.jp (Jeffrey Friedl)
Organization: Omron Corporation


robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
|> Ohtsuka sed,
|> 
|> Give her a break. She can do whatever she wants to do.
|> Narita Airport is the most crowded international airport
|> with the worst facilities I have ever seen.
|> 
|> My words exactly!  Narita is in desperate need of remodeling their kitsche
|> early '70-s pseudo-futurist architecture.  They need to expand rail service
|> & not make passengers walk 180 degrees around the dome, on the other side of
|> a plexiglass barricade, to get to the stolid customs gate.  They need to
|> install more international telephones & expand the lobby to make it more
|> user/foreigner-friendly.  The security guards should be better versed in
|> English.  They need to eliminate these ridiculous restrictions on where
|> you can carry baggage carts & where you can't.  Also, install an X-ray
|> machine, instead of opening up every goddamn bag & rummaging through the
|> contents.

You sound like it's your fucking God-given right to breeze through the
international airport of your choice.

If you are not Japanese, and you wish to enter to Japan, IT IS YOUR
PRIVLIDE, NOT YOUR RIGHT.  If, for example, the Japanese government wants
to have it so that people named Henry have to cluck like a chicken to get
in (unless it's Tuesday or they are wearing a blue shirt), then either put
up with it or STAY OUT.

Saying
   "it would sure be more friendly and/or better business sense if
    such-and-such were changed"
is great, but demanding makes you sound like a jerk.

|> Give her a break. She can do whatever she wants to do.

And indicating that the adverse conditions makes it OK to be a self-centered
asshole (as the person in Mark's original message seemed to be) is even
worse. It's people like you that change a bad situation into an unbarable one.

Besides being nice for its own sake, it can often benefit one directly.
Once when checking in for a Tokyo->SF flight, I found that my flight
had been cancled (got stuck in Manilla during the volcano). The wait to
get to the counter was *long* (all flights on that airline leaving Tokyo
that day had been full for a long time, and trying to shove the 300+
passangers onto other flights was an unfun task, I'm sure).

When the person in front of me finally got to the counter, she threw a
temper-tantrum about not getting everything exactly as she wanted. She had
been shoved to coach (from business) on a flight leaving in a few hours,
and made the agent's life hell, as well as everyone in ear-shot and
particularly those still waiting in line behind her. From talking to her
earlier, I knew she was in no rush to get home.... just wanted special
treatment.

When I got there, I just said "anything's fine... you must be having a
hell of a day".  To my surprise, I ended up on a flight leaving in
an hour. When I got to the gate and picked up my boarding pass, I found
my seat was in First Class. (-:

	*jeff*

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Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl                          jfriedl@omron.co.jp
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