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  1. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Fox News, chicksontheright...why not link to InfoWars while you're at it? Cherrypicking those anecdotes (and that's what they are) is not an indication of institutional racism against whites. Given the course of American history, the very notion is laughable.
  2. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Nice anecdotes bro.
  3. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    I'm reminded of that line in "Bullworth": "Everyone should fuck everyone else until we're all brown."
  4. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Off topic, but a friend of mine was an extra in a commercial with her and by all accounts she's a massive c-u-next-tuesday. They were told never to look her in the eye, even when not filming, she was over an hour late to the shoot every day, and all the extras were made to wait outside the...
  5. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

  6. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    I'm pretty amazed that your response to this comment, which speaks in your defense (one problem being less severe than another doesn't invalidate the less severe one: that's the gist behind the phrase "fallacy of relative deprivation"), was to call me names. Your ire is really misplaced here, @psd.
  7. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Tell us how you really feel.
  8. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Word to the wise: "tu quoque" ("you do it too!") and relative deprivation ("it's worse somewhere else!") are both logical fallacies. They are not sound arguments. Not surprisingly, these are the non-starters one runs up against most often when trying to discuss sensitive issues about Japan. "It...
  9. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    Nowhere did anyone suggest your problems are not problems. Argument from Relative Deprivation is a fallacy. But in the grand scheme of things, an article like the Japan Times article about "gotcha" problems foreigners face in Japan might do well to be a little more self aware about problems...
  10. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    @psd, I think his point is that while a paper cut and a femoral artery laceration are both bleeding, one might be slightly more egregious than the other. We should probably take the same approach to racist injustices that doctors take to triage: worst injuries get the most attention (though not...
  11. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    This thread reminded me of this: http://itsnotmejapanitsyou.tumblr.com/post/74315008834/when-shin-kun-met-mr-david-cameron-esq-i
  12. TheDutchElm

    Racism In Japan?

    A black childhood friend of mine in America once told me his mother told him always to be on time because if you're late, "you don't want to be a black man running". I cannot see how dealing with that level of institutional racism even compares to the kind of mildly annoying reverse racism GD...
  13. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    Well, that's a question of essentialism, right? Our tendency as human beings to label and classify is useful, but technically flawed. In the same way as there is really no such thing as a defined species of plant or animal in an epochal view of natural history, "Japanese-ness" is no more...
  14. TheDutchElm

    Life In Japan - The Low Points

    Zaphod, did you know Japan has four seasons?
  15. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    You assume a lot.
  16. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    First off, that's not what projection means. Projection is criticizing someone else for something you subconsciously recognize as a failing in yourself. If you mean "applying my own standards" then yes- I am doing that. Which is why this was relevant to a thread entitled "things you would...
  17. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    So an example of what I mean by sexual liberty is arrangements other than serial monogamy and serial infidelity that at least have some presence and partial acceptance in collective cultural conscience. The idea of polyfidelity or open relationships for example. I feel like in my home country...
  18. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    When you arrange your regular FWB tryst with multiple Japanese women who all know each other and are ok with it, you let me know, @psd. I stand by my position that Japan is still largely a conservative sexual environment. Whatever elements of deviance and alternative lifestyle exist are buried...
  19. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    I just find Western women so much more generally sexually liberated and willing to explore arrangements that don't involve serial monogamy, serial cheating, and fast-tracking everything to marriage and kids. I have several FWBs who all know each other and are good friends. I can't ever see...
  20. TheDutchElm

    Things You Would Change About Japan

    [snip charisma man comic] I cried the smallest tear. There's a difference between having preferences and coming over here swinging your dick at anything Asian looking because there aren't any Western women to tell you what a creep you are. If I could change something about Japan, it would be...