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  azzassaJun. 06, 2009 - 09:55PM JST

  They should be shot in public in front of the White House.

  Posted in: U.S. couple indicted on charges of spying for Cuba

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  azzassaApr. 23, 2009 - 05:38PM JST

  @Tjrandom: Truth be told, compared to the rest of the world, not that many Japanese men in their 50s are either fat or balding.

  Posted in: Work prospects bleak for 'arafifu' men; sex prospects better

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  azzassaMar. 05, 2009 - 05:12PM JST

  I'm not sure how many non-Japanese Asians posters there are here, but the Caucasian posters here tend to ignore or forget the fact that many Japanese see the world in a racial-hierarchy-tinted glasses, with whites above their own race and "other-races" below them.

  I'm planning to get married to a Japanese woman, but we've agreed that we don't want our children to be raised and educated in Japan. Primarily because we think that the education here does not encourage critical-thinking or ambition, but also because as someone whose worked as an ALT in the JET programme Japanese primary and high schools for 4 years, I know that half-Japanese and half-Filipino children will probably be discriminated against and/or bullied. I have taught around a dozen in the 40 or schools I've been to, and they clearly stick out; some like sore-thumbs. If there was a strong Filipino community to support them, the child could even become stronger through the hardship like I did, going to a 95% Anglo-Saxon school (no-joke) growing up in Australia.

  Unfortunately, due to the Japanese government's immigration policies, Filipinos working in Japan tend to lean towards the "entertainment industry" and Japan has a history of human-trafficking involving Filipino women. With many many half-Japanese/Filipino children being born from that background, the community therefore is not strong in the way of good role models or parenting. Couple that with the education system that leans towards churning out "Japanese people" instead of educating students, and you end up with a lot of half-Japanese/Filipinos children with an insecure cultural identity, a chronic consumer mentality, a sex-is-something-I-can-do-at-14-with-anyone-as-long-as-I-get-rewarded morality, and a lack of ambition. They are therefore ready to work as bartenders and hostesses for the next generation of Japanese salarymen.

  I could do what people suggest and "take it in the chin" and ignore it, or I could just take my children back to Australia, where there is also a lot of racism, but at least racism is discussed by the general public and see it as something that the government and the majority as something for all citizens to think about, discuss, strive against. Yes, Japan needs children, but why I would want my "half-breed" children to spend their lives ignorant and STILL unhappy in a failing economy with a society that is doing very little to work towards seeing them as equals is beyond me.

  Posted in: Half and haafu

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  azzassaJan. 07, 2009 - 04:24AM JST

  what you all need is some baby whale steak to calm yourselves down

  Posted in: Japan wants anti-whalers barred from Australian, NZ and Chile ports

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