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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!hiraga
- From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
- Subject: Re: Is this offensive?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.074019.11958@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University CSLI
- References: <RHB.93Jan21104645@world.std.com> <1993Jan22.060210.29587@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> <RHB.93Jan22222015@world.std.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:40:19 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <RHB.93Jan22222015@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
- >Well, you don't have to be Japanese-American to get thrown up against
- >a locker in high school. Actually, all you have to be is smarter,
- >shorter, weaker, or not a football player. So you're not being singled
- >out, believe me, except that you are different.
-
- That's "one hell of" a compassion.
-
- >But let's compare
- >treatment here, just for the hell of it, with that of anomalous people
- >in Japan. Owada-san, the future empress, herself was victimized in
- >this way, probably much more cruelly and relentlessly than any
- >football player ever would have done it, merely because she had been
- >abroad.
-
- Again, why can you be so bold in making such statements
- of things you don't understand or have little knowledge of?
- I, being one of the earlier Kikoku-shijo (returnee), as well as my
- brother and sister, my wife, and a number of friends in a similar situation,
- will testify that such is not the case.
- Of course, there do exist such cases, but that doesn't warrant making
- such blanketed, ungrounded guesses.
-
- (BTW: Kiko, the wife of the other prince, is also a returnee.)
-
- -YH
-