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[(Anonymous)]

"A person is going to have to fit into a society as it is, not as you would wish it to be."

Some would say that life not being a total breeze is character-building - part of the fun. That any child - no matter how discriminated against - living in US, Europe or amidst the obtuse and frightened in Japan - would be a lucky child.

This is a very pre-Obama outlook too. Yes you can, it seems, even in Japan.

"Unlike Momus, I'm certainly not prepared to give deference to the opinions of a bunch of racist, ultra-rightwing crackpots when making such important decisions. My main problem with Momus' statements is that he is giving indirect support to the people who believe that Japanese society should remain homogenously Japanese."

A quote on http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23278&page=2

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly not prepared to give deference to the opinions of a bunch of racist, ultra-rightwing crackpots

And my main problem with that quote is that this (presumably) foreigner in Japan is dismissing the views of not only my girlfriend but most Japanese people as if they were something extremist, something to be fought with human canon-fodder (in the form of new humans who are genetically different from them). There's a kind of Settler mentality to this which I find deeply disturbing. Is the Japanese interest in blood and relatedness (which stretches from lex sanguinis to kids asking each other what their blood type is) really something you can dismiss with a phrase like "ultra-rightwing crackpots"? If so, why are you even in a country whose basic premises you disagree with so fundamentally, and whose social contract you find so distasteful and misguided?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'd exchange a hundred of these gaijin blowhard blogs for one What Japan Thinks (http://twitter.com/WhatJapanThinks).

Self-contradict Opera strikes again.

[(Anonymous)]

One day morals are relative and fluid and change over time and you argue that very passionately - and the next day "Japan" and everything it means is written in stone forever.

Re: Self-contradict Opera strikes again.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

So you're saying the Japan we see today is only a temporary aberration? And that it can be changed to something better by outsiders who parachute in their DNA? Because the Japanese themselves can't fix what's wrong, right?

Re: Self-contradict Opera strikes again.

[(Anonymous)]

Same old things you argue about immigration being healthy (for non-Japan countries), yup.

Re: Self-contradict Opera strikes again.

[(Anonymous)]

"And my main problem with that quote is that this (presumably) foreigner in Japan is dismissing the views of not only my girlfriend but most Japanese people"

My main problem is that the commenter was talking about the views of extremists and you are now maintaining that these are actually the views of "most Japanese people". On what basis do you say that?

[(Anonymous)]

Er... because the views of a far right wing should not be allowed to dominate?

Little things like that?

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

"Some would say that life not being a total breeze is character-building - part of the fun."

Sounds like the thinking of an American to me.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that "American" outlook never achieved anything.

Japologists

[(Anonymous)]

There's an interesting pathology at work when you support a club that wouldn't have you as a member.