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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.11
(02) [E]</span><br>
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Luc wrote:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Even today however, the
concept of "theft" has cultural bias. I remember a Japanese girl
telling me she had a real hard time living in a close-knit community of Koreans
(they were sharing flats), because the Koreans were not only sharing the flat,
but absolutely everything. If she bought some food she wanted to eat later on,
it had often disappeared within a couple of hours, because everybody was
using/consuming everybody else's stuff.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Having
lived in Japan so long and
more specifically Osaka, with the highest
concentration of "resident Koreans"* of anywhere in Japan, I think
there MAY be more to what the woman was having toruble dealing with than meets
the eye. Japanese have a "special" relationship with
Koreans. For example, the "resident Koreans", mentioned
above, are people whose grandparents were "citizens" of the
Japanese empire from Korea, broght, often forcibly and sometimes as
near-slaves, to Japan, then int he late 1950s illegally (by international law
anyway) deprived of their Japanese citizenship and forced to claim either North
or South Korea nationality. Most now living have never seen Korea (North or
South) and speak little if any Korean. They have their own schools in Japan,
but the girls have mostly stopped wearing the tradional uniforms, tradional
Korean dress, as too many of them were being attacked by the "locals"
... whenever media etc brought up anything negative (i.e. anti-Japanese) about
either Korean state. (On the "up" side, many of these
"resident Koreans" have recently taken PRIDE in who they
"are", and have now in much larger numbers started using their Korean
names, instead of "their" Japanese ones. ... )</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In reality,
that style of "sharing" is EXACTLY how Japanese college kids
sharing apartments, and dorm kitchens behave (the difference being that if
given the choice, most Japanese would probably chose NOT to share apartments or
live in dorms), ... though they seem to not have so hard a time dealing with
it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">BUT,
keeping to the topic of relativism, my question is: someone comes to India from
Japan and is charged DOUBLE the going rate for a taxi ride of X kms because
they are a "rich" Japanese (say the equivalent of 400 yen) and that
is called "robbery". What then is it called when someone from India
goes to Japan and pays the GOING rate for the same distance by taxi (about 4000
yen)?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
And, getting back to Luc's example, MY humble (or not so) opinion is, if, as
described, it was "a close knit community of Koreans", and they had
their social values (and rules), and the Japanese woman chose to live there
with them (cause it was cheap, i suspect!), then she should have better
accepted the values or ship back home! I have spent too many hours
listening to ex-pats (alas sometimes myself included!) complain about the
"way THEY do things here". As THEY say in the good ole US of A, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">a) if you
can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">b) my
country, love it or leave it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">c) there's
two ways of doin' things:; my way and the highway!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(that was a
multiple choice test; did you pass?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Mike || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">マイク</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">माईक</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| Мика || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="GU">માઈક</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="GU"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Sylfaen;">მაიქ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Raavi;" lang="PA">ਮਾਈਕ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <br>
</span><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HE">מייק</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>
|| </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Latha;" lang="TA">மாஇக்</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="TA"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| Miqueu || U C > || <span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">ما یک</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span> || Mihangel <br>
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Dr Michael W Morgan <br>
Ishara Foundation || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">ईशारा</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">फॉउंडेशन</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">イシャラ基金</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
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