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- From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
- Subject: Re: Genitals in Japan( was Madonna...)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:44:07 GMT
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- mpevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Evans) writes:
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- >rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
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- >>keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka) writes:
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- >>>Carl's phrase "Stragne people, the Japanese.." sums up my opinion when
- >>>it comes to their attitude to pornography and exposure of genitals
- >>>etc. Someone mentioned that General MacArthur's present to Japan,
- >>Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.sex,soc.culture.japan
- >>Subject: Re: Genitals in Japan( was Madonna...)
- >>References: <1992Nov1.001627.15011@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Nov2.032948.14849@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <jwb.720750843@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov3.043239.21945@utagraph.uta.edu> <1d81hoINNiu7@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- >>keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka) writes:
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- >>>Why can't they [the Japanese] admit a simple fact that
- >>>they did a horrible thing during/before WWII and that human
- >>>beings have public [sic] hair and genitals and do make love!
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- >>Because it's not a simple fact. It would involve a national loss of face,
- >>which is something most Japanese I have met would not suffer gladly. The
- >>Japanese, as any Japanese-surnamed individual ought to know, are
- >>particularly thin-skinned about criticism, especially when it comes
- >>from gaijin (read: racial inferiors, i.e., the rest of the world).
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- >Have the rest of the world admitted the nasty things they did in WWII?
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- >I mean just think if the US said "well we didn't want to allow the red army
- >time to get there, and we had a weapon which needed a field test....."
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- The U.S. never denied nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is included in
- American history texts (unlike the Japanese rape of Nanking and other crimes,
- which have been conveniently left out of the *Nihon-no rekishi*). And
- recently (although admittedly belatedly) the U.S. even admitted wrongdoing
- in the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII. This is not to
- say we are paragons of virtue. But we do admit our faults (even if we do
- not suffer such admissions gladly).
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- As far as the rest of the world goes, I can't say. But things are emerging
- from the new Russia all the time.
-
- Gee, but what does all this have to do with alt.sex?
-