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[Dan]

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[Dan]

i was not making a comparison between korea and japan, just a personal experience. and in california, the population of japanese are mostly 2nd or even 3rd generation people, who came years ago and settled there. how about 1st gen japanese with western spouses?

[matko]

Dan

There are thousands of first generation Japanese with western spouses.
In fact, I would guess that it is more common with the Japanese (percentage wise) than with the Koreans. Anybody have any numbers?
I'm kind of lazy

btw I think the blue sea is cool as well.

No one has answered my Russian question so I'll ask again.
Anybody know what the Russians call it?

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[TheUrbanMyth]

[Circus Monkey]

[Chonbuk]

I'm sensing that Liam has a few issues he needs to work on. Must be difficult to hold all that anger inside.

I have to agree with the KofK- it is far too emotional and to recent of an issue to deal with it reasonably and rationally, but I don't think that family members talk about those times together. Ask your students if their grandparents have ever told them war stories or Colonial stories. They learn the hatred from the history pages and from flippant comments from their parents but not real discussions about the past.
Yes, we should not forget but at some point we have to forgive in order to heal.

I find it rather funny however that whenever I travel anywhere the Koreans and the Japanese are always together, sharing restaurants, guesthouses etc. The Koreans need to feel that they are so different from their number 1 enemy but in reality they really aren't.

Today I had the same class, and one student said she went to Japan during the holidays, but would never go back- The food was terrible, and the two-faces of the people bothered her-

I started a talk about public and private faces- basically trying out Denz theory but a simplified version. Do you act the same way with your friends that you do with your parents?? or in school? or at your part time job... They all could easily understand this logic, and quickly realized that all people have both a public and private face-

I'm engaged to a Japanese man. I'm a western woman. There are actually alot of us throughout the world. One forum I belong to with western women and Jap men has over 300 members the majority of them living in Japan- There are a heck of a lot more western men and Jap-women around.
Yes, international relationships are not easy, but from the experiences of the wives in my forum, they do become recognized members by the society and the family it just takes more time, and complete language skills.
thanks for the last link- it was informative.

Also I think many Korean women would jump at the chance to get involved with a J-man.

Cheers.

Chonbuk

[Pets wonderland]

I've never been particularly anti- Japanese until this incident happened-
I was on the train, minding my own business, until a gentlemen noticed I'm not Japanese. (I'm Korean, and proud of it!)

He proceeded to stare for a while, and then decided to tell me something. He repeated it many times, despite my feeble attempts at telling him I can't speak Japanese, at all.

Finally, a lady sitting next to me said, 'He says this seat is for his friend, his friend needs the seat'. And stupid me, I believed him and left the seat.
It was a long trip and it seemed the gentlemen had a long way to go too. This 'friend' he mentioned was nowhere to be seen and I saw numerous other, more 'Japanese' looking people occupy my seat and the gentlemen was strangely silent. They came and went, and he nener told them 'that's my friend's seat'.

Of course, other people may say 'That's a one-off incident' but almost all foreigners I spoke to in Japan had the same thing happen to them, if not worse. It's extremely degrading yet subtle form of racism.

The worst thing that the Japanese can do is brainwash other Asians into thinking that their own country is inferior. I'm ashamed to admit that many Koreans who live in Japan have been completely brainwashed into thinking that Japan is the best and Korea has a long way to go. Same goes for other Asians, they want to be 'Japanese' and hide their real selves. This, I find the most disturbing of all.

By the way, there are loads of western and foreign men married to Japanese women in Japan. They don't sem to last long though, but they're around. A lot of them seem to end up in divorce, however.

[Hotuk]

[The Lemon]

[whatthefunk]

It seems like alot of you are batteling racism with racism. I don't know if thats such a good idea.

[Dan]

Lemon, i hope you didn't dig up this post just to put that picture on here --;

anyway, its pretty funny, you should submit it to Engrish.com

[Yaya]

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