JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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yabits
Not just Caucasians, but white MEN who have discriminated against other Caucasions, be they Catholics, Jews, women, etc.
LOL!! I know about numbers. The great statistician, W. Edwards Deming, used to say that the most important numbers for any undertaking are unknown and unknowable. That should be enough to make anyone who prides themselves on "facts" to take a bit of pause.
Qualifications are not always as "concrete" as some would like to believe. And we should never let one side alone dictate what the pertinent "facts" are.
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yabits
There is no shorage of Americans who give themselves ample credit. Many of these same Americans are the ones who misrepresent Obama's trip as an "apology tour."
You don't seem to be to put out at the fact that Obama's critics are not cutting him any slack. At times, you seem to be in their corner cheering them on, or at least lending your voice in their attacks against the people who support what Obama is trying to do.
There is no danger, other than in someone's over-active imagination. If you do something wrong, you admit it and own up to it. The side that is wronged is the victim. What would anyone expect to squeeze out of them? Or is American aid and largesse partly a kind of bribe to get people to look the other way and sing the praises of America?
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yabits
This doesn't matter to the anti-Obama crowd. They don't care if the American people want her approved.
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yabits
Step aside, Al-Qaida, Obama's Republican critics have you covered.
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yabits
Thank you caribjustice, for providing the link.
While the point that Obama brought up in Strasbourg has some validity, it is a little naive. I believe that the remarks were more meant for the American audience at home, rather than his French-German audience.
The thing Obama could have acknowledged was that much of the anti-Americanism is not directed at American ideals, but rather at the fact that America bestowed upon itself a leadership position in Europe and world -- and it is often human nature for ordinary people to carp and grouse at leaders.
I am going to cut the Europeans some slack. They've had to endure 8 years of a president whose style and philosophy is radically different from President Obama's.
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yabits
Sorry for repeating myself. It is just that when you search for Obama and "America bashing" you get page after page of conservative diatribes claiming that Obama welcomes America bashing.
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yabits
Expressing regret for a mistake goes quite a bit beyond mere acknowledgement.
Where does Obama tell non-Americans to stop America-bashing?
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yabits
Speaking for myself, I have no doubt.
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yabits
Romney's point is that Obama should not be apologizing for anything. That point, which you say you find valid, is just as irrational as the position taken by the people who blame America for everything.
You say that Obama should be careful with his words because that might embolden the people who won't give America credit for anything. The ironic fact is that the people I see being emboldened are mostly the ones who, like Romney, are opposed to Obama, and are using his honorable gestures to score political points against him.
This strikes me more as equivocation rather than any respectable moderation. It is the political enemies at home who represent a greater threat to President Obama than anyone like a jeancolmar abroad. Any US person who believes that America should never humble itself is a FAR greater enemy to American self-interest than anyone who doesn't give us credit for anything. A voice such as that will soon be drowned out by other voices around him when confronted with a truly humble United States.
I should not pick on jeancolmar. I do not believe he is anti-American as much as he is against the kind of arrogance typified by people like Romney. Even if he doesn't come around, acknowledging wrongdoing and apologizing for it is the right thing to do, and we ought to be the kind of country that can do the right things without expecting anything in return.
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yabits
This is why people like Romney are working so hard to undermine President Obama. They sense he will be successful, and, when he is, they know they won't have any Republicans in power to attribute it that success to. Standing back and letting Bush have all the rope he needed to hang himself and the Republican Party was a very smart tactic, though it required a lot of patience.
Anyway, the improved economy will be due to the decisions of Justices Roberts and Scalia.
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yabits
Sounds like you're taking the first step on the road to recovery.
Except that last part. A person of integrity and sincerity would be something more appropriate to wish to become.
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yabits
Thank for that information, Fadamor. It brings some comfort to think that these people did not suffer.
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yabits
You actually associate the act of apologizing with self-hatred?
Thank you for that little window into what passes for conservative thought. Perhaps that explains the high level of mistrust that others feel towards them.
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yabits
Which made him fit right in with the anti-abortion fringers.
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yabits
You've nearly nailed why it is that hardline Republicans are so opposed to a President like Obama making any apologies: When Obama apologizes for a mistake made by a Republican, it makes it that much more awkward for the next Republican to come in and perpetuate the error. It makes the two-faced nature of America towards the rest of the world all the more obvious.
And so the world is confronted with an America where a leader of decency admits past mistakes and apologizes for them, after having seen a predecessor who would never admit to a mistake. And they know could see such an arrogant leader in the future.
And so, according to Superlib, Obama should behave more like the leader who doesn't apologize than the one who does. While professing the goal for America to live up to its potential, he actually wants to drag the country down to the lowest common denominator.
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yabits
I suspect that Obama will listen to the words, and then realize what makes him different in the eyes of the world than a jingoist like Romney. If Obama actually pays heed to Romney's words, he'll be selling himself out to conservatives worse than John McCain did.
But no, Barack Obama has far too much strength in his convictions of how to win hearts and minds to do that.
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yabits
I am anti-jingoism. When Republicans like Romney and Cheney spout jingoism, especially when doing it to undermine a sitting president, I am against it. I have high regard for Republicans like William Cohen, Dick Lugar, Lincoln Chafee, etc.
I don't know how many this "we" is you are claiming to speak for, but you can't be both for Obama and the hardline Repubicans, and hardline wannabes like Romney who undermine him.
You claim you just want an America that lives up to its potential. If you go back and look at history, every great advancement made in human rights that the US has made was due to an idea that started from people considered to be on the fringe by the conservatives and so-called moderates who opposed them.
The lie being perpetrated is that America is exceptionally good. America stands a chance at being exceptionally good, but only if she acknowledges the things she does wrong, apologizes for them, and makes honest efforts not to repeat the errors.
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yabits
It's not even so much that our apologies will be used against us, but that our apologies won't be appreciated. Exactly: so what?
When I have done something wrong I apologize without regard for how the other person will take it, but because it's the right thing to do. If I ever get into a mode where I would refuse to apologize because it wouldn't be appreciated, I've now got something even bigger to apologize for.
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yabits
The ignorance of so many Americans about history, geography and politics is also well-known throughout the world.
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yabits
Romney's talking about of both sides of his mouth. First he says: "It’s not because America hasn’t made mistakes—we have..." (Yes, we have, Mitt.) Then he says, "America has sacrificed to free nations from dictators."
So what about all the help the Reagan and Bush gave the dictator Saddam Hussein back in the 1980s? Strengthening his brutal regime with weapons, intelligence and financial assistance.
Even when Saddam killed US sailors on the USS Stark in 1987, Reagan just patted him on the back and said, "That's OK, Saddam." When human rights organizations reported Saddam using gas against Iranians and Kurds, the Saddam-supporters within the Republican administration attacked the organizations for spreading false information. (Is that freeing a nation from a dictator, Mitt?)
After knocking Saddam out of Kuwait, Bush-41 gave a green light for the Iraqi people to rebel and overthrow the dictator. Then the US essentially backed off and stood by and watched while Saddam let his security details slaughter thousands. Everyone knows this is true.
And those are just the obvious missteps which pertain to Iraq. America can't claim to be purely for liberating nations from dictators. We'll support them when it suits America's purposes. Romney is only speaking to his Republican base, and for the people who want to apologize for them.
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