Re: [OT] Japan

> 
> --- Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and John, in case you hadn't noticed: 
> > Modern Day Japan has an awful lot of very 
> > reasonable and democratic people who put a 
> > very high value on human life. There are 
> 
> The specific question was "Japan 1943."  Nothing of
> what you say applied then.  
> 
> > undoubtedly small vestiges of the attitude of 
> > "the old days", but they are nowhere near as 
> 
> Yeah.  Just ask any one of those Koreans living in
> Japan, or an Ainu (IIRC, the most polite name they
> have for them translates as "Earth Spider"), or the
> descendants of the leatherworkers. . . 
> 
> > And besides, most kids nowadays in Japan are 
> > interested in material goodies rather than 
> > philosophy. Globalization, the ubiquity of 
> > English, the Internet, etc. are all having their 
> > effect....
> 
> I'll just never trust anyone who can't admit what
> their anscestors did.  The Germans don't run around
> claiming they were the aggrieved party in WWII, why do
> the Japanese claim their shit doesn't stink?	And the
> Germans had less (marginally, but. . .) to answer for
> than the Japanese.

Mr. Atkinson, I suggest that you attend less to the mote in the list's
eye and more to the
beam up thine own ass.

Take it off-list.  Keep it off-list.  This has nothing to do with any of
the GZG games,
and has no place here.

John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim

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