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- From: wkg0258@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (KUSUMOTO Wakako)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: Japanese student seeks school apology for harrassment
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:20:41 -0600
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- dali@stein.u.washington.edu (David A. Lee) writes:
-
- >Sarcasm intended, I am tired of the attitudes Japanese have about
- >the outside world. It's worse than the segregation between
- >blacks and whites that existed in the United States through the
- >1950s.
-
- > [the article from the newsgroup, clari.news.children deleted.]
-
-
- Why don't you take a look at the _Japan's 'International Youth': The
- Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren_ by Roger Goodman (New York:
- Clarendon Press/Oxford, 1990). It will give you different views on the
- subject. It is a study of kikokushijo (Japanese returnee schoolchildren),
- which challenges the prevailing view (due mainly to the media's hype) that
- they are victims of discrimination in their own country.
-
- It won't be your loss to be a little more careful and considerate when you
- discuss one society and people. Also, it may not be too bad an idea to
- avoid agitating yourself by chanting words in your mind, such as:
-
- >"Uh oh, he's been TAINTED by the evil BARBARIANS!!!"
- >"Maybe we'd better SHOOT HIM to take him OUT OF HIS MISERY"
- >"If he is not JUST LIKE US he must be MISERABLE, right?"
-
- ---
-
- >Can we accept these kind of attitudes? I sure can't:
-
- >The student said classmates made such remarks as, ``His mother is
- >American, so he may have AIDS.'
-
- >Sick.
-
- I hope you feel better.
-
-
- W. Kusumoto
-
-