There is a stirring among the gentle foreign folk grazing on the kanto plains (and other plains I suppose) of the isle of nippon. Their soft dewy eyes scan the horizon, the weather is weird, their stoic shepherds the nipponese have glanced at them funny. A crisis is about to reverberate through their fluffy hearts and instill the harsh world there once again - that which they thought they had escaped from
there are three things / issues
1. the gaijin will be photographed and fingerprinted on entering the nippon, even those who have settled down for 20 years and so on
2. the younger gaijin went on a train to have a party, enticed by the swish lighting, and this happened
3. the nipponese politician overseeing immigration policies said he was friends with a friend of an al-qaeda member who had blown himself up in bali, and this is why - 1.
- and I stole some ascii (damaging its parameters in the process) from the 2chan place, for further enruditioning - the wikipedia entry
malale analysis
Antagonistic situations are exciting so it is no wonder that conflicts are taking place. This is why they built schools. As soon as we learnt about nazis, we were eager to live in an "oppressive regime" , although oppressive in the best possible way, without the rounding up, being forced to shoot your father, kill nuns, &tc
All 3 issues are interlaced, two sides push against each other with contempt, and the points of debate are bathed in automated responses excited by the idea of conflict .
I once attacked an arabic man for blatant theft of pic and mix in qatar shopping centre. Years later I stole mentos. Now I retain equipose and merely watch events and news topics as they interact.
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the thing with the whole tube train fiasco is, speaking from experience, the last thing a tired commuter wants is to face upon his 27036th journey home before returning to work early the next morning is a load of "partying" (read : loud, intimidating) drunken people. I imagine to the diminutive Japanese white gaijin are as scary as big black people or Irish are to Englanders.
ReplyDeleteMany westerners treat Japan as some kind of jizz-streaked hedonistic toilet roll; a place to do everything they wouldn't dare in their home town. So as I say: string 'em up.
Yes, it's that thing that english people call "having a larf", and the americans probably say "party dude," and austrailians - well I don't know their terminology. it is bad enough on a nighttime street in a northern town, and squeezed into a usually uncommonly civil train carriage, just shows a celebration of ignorance.
ReplyDeleteplenty of parks here too, no illegality in drinking in them. mio's little brother vomitted in a park last time we met him, then excused himself. we followed him like spies to his bicycle, to make sure he could ride reasonably well. he managed to wobble home.
i am an upstanding and gentle gaijin, but cannot prove it.
And as I tried to suggest, the train situation may be more about the desire of these young-ish people to put themselves in a situation where they will appear repugnant to those around them (as a defined distanced other) in the hope and excitement for violence.
ReplyDeleteThis is in lieu of slitting the throat of a wild boar, or having a nervous breakdown.
I read somewhere that a few years ago on such a train event some japanese teenagers beat up some particularly mouthy americans. I shan't condone violence but . . .