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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!cmr
- From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
- Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaikokujin
- Message-ID: <By3509.E2B@world.std.com>
- Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
- References: <1992Nov21.204351.17635@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:28:57 GMT
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- underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
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- >Returning to the original issue, is it appropriate for Japan to
- >fingerprint foreigners even though Japanese citizens are not fingerprinted?
- >Yes, it is appropriate. Even the USA does not treat its citizens in
- >the same way that it treats foreigners or even permanent residents.
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- As I understand it, the problem is not so much that resident aliens get
- fingerprinted. It is rather that they get fingerprinted again each year
- and that the humiliation of this process has become a symbol of the
- discrimmination felt (in particular) by the Koreans whose ancestors were
- forcibly transported to Japan as slaves (what else does one call forced
- labor and forced prostitution). Other nationalities also feel that the
- process is used to humiliate and that is its primary purpose.
-
- Charlie
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