Re: TIME magazine on Akebono

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> "PROMETHEUS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > The YOKOZUNA PROMOTION COUNCIL is made up of older people who are not in
> > SUMO. Businessmen, writers, politicians, etc. AKEBONO would not fit into
> > this crowd. Besides, it's for Japanese only, not naturalized Japanese.
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> is it me, or are a large quantity of japanese people racist in a way our
own
> racists couldn't manage? - it's as if it's considered perfectly normal and
> nobody frowns upon it.
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Actually, yes, it is you. Things are done differently here. Your frame of
reference (the US Constitution, the Magna Carta, the Enlightenment, the Bill
of Rights, free speech, freedom of assembly, etc.) are alien concepts in
Asia, especially East Asia.