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Gai-jin (ガイジン) Redux

17 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by bydesign001 in culture, sports

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Grumpy Opinions by Vassar Bushmills

Gaijin, pronounced “guy-jin” is a Japanese word meaning “foreigner”.

But it is much more than that.

I lived in Japan 1972-1975 as an Army officer. And I had studied Japanese for four semesters in college to satisfy my language requirements. A solid C-student, I came away with the speaking and reading ability of a Japanese second grader. But I had a good ear for spoken Japanese.

My secretary there, Mrs Minami, who I’ve written about at VeteransTales.org, was an American-born Japanese who had spent WWII in an internment camp out west. She was a GS-grade secretary, and my anchor as to Japanese ways. We were good friends and exchanged letters into the 90s, long after I left the Army.

Mrs Minami schooled me about manners in speaking with Japanese, as there were three ways to speak to a person, depending on their rank; someone beneath you, someone your equal, and someone above you. I was eager to learn this, for if I spoke in the honorific to a Japanese man, he would think I was not a mere “gaijin”, which, as every secretary who tried to talk to John Kerry knows, goes nowhere..

Mrs Minami warned me about that word “gaijin” as well as two other terms I had learned in college that were not acceptable in Japan any longer; “Kon-koku-jin” and “Kai-koku-jin”, which were names Japanese had used for Koreans and Chinese during their occupation during World War II. “Never call a Korean, of which there many in Japan, Konkokujin, for it is a great insult” she warned.

The other word she advised me against was “gai-jin”, which, as Google will tell you means “foreigner.” Only it means so much more.  It really meant “dirty, filthy foreigner”. She said “gaijin” was similar to what white Americans once called Negros while she was a girl in Wyoming. You know, the N-word, only color had nothing to do with it. It meant every foreigner.

And the Japanese government had carried on a national campaign against its use since the 1950s. It was never used in respectable company, but still, you heard it muttered on the streets, usually by lower classes, and usually because they thought the foreigners wouldn’t understand them. I heard it many times, mostly in bars, crowded restaurants and crowded trains during rush hour.

I even had the chance to throw it back at them once, while on a beach in Hawaii.

It was also the first thing I thought of when I watched the closing ceremony of the US Open tennis championship on Saturday.

Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese national to win a tennis Grand Slam title. Ever.

And she defeated Serena Williams, who was in search of her 24th Grand Slam title, trying for the second time in a row to tie the all-time record. She was denied at Wimbledon in July, and now again at Forrest Hills.

She did not comport herself well.

Nor did the tourney spokespeople who made no bones about the fact that Naomi Osaka should not have been the champion in the first place.

Serena has a history of this kind of behavior (you can look it up) and will have to deal with her demons, but perhaps karma has other plans. And perhaps the PC police inside US Tennis may even take a lesson in hiding their boorishness and bias, as if they were a Harvard Admissions Committee.

Derivative. Orig. photo by Pixabay.

Perspective

It is at this point that I blocked out the chatter surrounding the dust up(s) between Serena Williams and U. S. Tennis umpire, Carlos Ramos. I needed to gain my own perspective and so I reviewed the matches and incidents leading up to the explosion last weekend:

  • We must thank Serena Williams for giving credence, albeit unintentionally to the myth of the “ugly American.”  Williams has earned the title “Gaijin” hands down.
  • The U. S. Open Committee or whatever they call themselves are deserving as well of the title of “ugly American.” Clearly, they had not prepared a Plan B presentation in the event Serena Williams lost, which she did. Naomi Osaka deserved better[…]

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Co-authored by Vassar Bushmills and PUMABydesign001.

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Former Black Panther: Democrats Manage Misery And Scared People

25 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by bydesign001 in Election 2016

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Re-posted from tomfernandez28’s Blog
Published on Apr 25, 2016

Former Black Panther Clarence Mason Weaver told Fox Business News’ Trish Regan that Democrats are best at managing groups of people.

Clarence Mason Weaver:
“Well, Democrats would starve to death if they didn’t blame folks that had victims. Democrats are the party of groups. They got white people and black people. Gay people and straight people. They have rich people and poor people. They’re the party of groups. They used to have slaves, field slaves and house slaves. They’re the party of slavery. So they manage groups. Republicans, we’re the party of ideas. Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Are you for high taxes or low taxes? We don’t care about your color, your gender. We care about the issues. So, we’re the party of the issues. Democrats have to have a problem. They have to have misery and scared people. They must never have victory. Victory is negative to a Democrat. They have nothing to do but manage misery.”


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Notice that of every group under the Progressive wing, all are victims of some sort. The success and power of Progressives is to ensure that the victim mentality continues to exist. Without victimhood, Progressives would be powerless and out of business.

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Thomas Sowell: Affirmative Action Is No Favor To Minorities

15 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Antonin Scalia, Fisher v. University of Texas, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States, University of Texas, victimhood


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Investors.com by Thomas Sowell

Among the many sad signs of our time are the current political and media attacks on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for speaking the plain truth on a subject where lies have been the norm for years.

The case before the High Court is whether the use of race as a basis for admitting students to the University of Texas at Austin is a violation of the 14th Amendment’s requirement for government institutions to provide “equal protection of the laws” to all.

Affirmative action is supposed to benefit black and other minority students admitted with lower academic qualifications than some white students who are rejected. But Justice Scalia questioned whether being admitted to an institution geared to students with higher-powered academic records was a real benefit.

Despite much media spin, the issue is not whether blacks in general should be admitted to higher-ranked or lower-ranked institutions….

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Affirmative action promotes victimhood based on qualifying an individual based on their skin color rather than their merits.

To those persons of color who qualify based on merits, affirmative action is a transgression against the qualifying party to the highest degree. I know.

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BANNED: University of Wisconsin Ordains Phrase “Everybody Can Succeed” Racist Among Others

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Indoctrination, microaggression, political correctness indoctrination, victimhood


University of Wisconsin-Madison Education Building Wikimedia Commons public domain creative commons license INDOCTRINATION CENTER

Pushing the Obama administration’s progressive and political correctness indoctrination programs, the University of Wisconsin has posted what Progressives have ordained a a list of microaggressions, i.e., phrases to be banned because they are considered racist, offensive, code, homophobic, dog whistles, whatever the Progressive label of the hour may be.

The Social Memo, by Aurelius Pundit

The titled of the document is ‘Examples of Racial Microaggressions’ and outlines types of ‘racist microaggressions,’ examples of them, and what they are ‘actually’ saying.

In the section ‘Color Blindness: Statements that indicate that a White person does not want to acknowledge race,’ the quote, ‘America is a melting pot’ is said to be racist. According to the document, whites try to force others to ‘assimilate/acculturate to the dominant culture’ when they say that….’

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Examples given of racial microaggression listed under the theme“Denial of individual racism” is the phrase, “I’m not racist. I have several Black friends” and “As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority.”

Translated by the know–it-all bigots in denial at Univ. of WI, “I am immune to races because I have friends of color” and “Your racial oppression is no different than my gender oppression.” What are the odds that they got the latter from Sally Kohn, a Progressive and bigot-in-denial who goes through life with her foot in her mouth.

The clencher, listed under “Myth of meritocracy” meaning “Statements which assert that race does not play a role in life successes.” Banning phrases such as “I believe the most qualified person should gt the job” and “Everybody can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.”

Translated by the Progressive bigots to mean that: “People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race” and “People of color are lazy and/or incompetent….”

Such crap, “Myth of meritocracy” clearly opens the door to a lifetime of victimhood, i.e., people refusing to hold themselves accountable for their shortcomings while laying the blame at the feet of others. I am talking about a lifetime of government dependency, the road to serfdom aka slavery.

The list of code words, i.e., dog whistles most often used by Progressives themselves goes on for two pages.

View this document on Scribd

Microaggression, a tool to stifle free speech, brainwash millions (while getting paid for it), keep the racist assault and guilt trips against Caucasians, Christians and non-Marxists front and center and a nation divided teetering on the edge.

Political correctness = soft language. Enough already.

 

H/t The Black Sphere.

Suggested reading: The Microaggression Farce.

 

LINKS:
http://www.uwsp.edu/acadaff/NewFacultyResources/NFSRacialMicroaggressions_Table.pdf
http://www.thesocialmemo.org/2015/06/univ-of-wi-releases-list-of.html
https://www.scribd.com/doc/270746281/Examples-of-Racial-Microaggressions-NFSRacialMicroaggressions-Table-by-Stevens-Point-University-of-Wisconsin
http://theblacksphere.net/2015/06/university-wisconsin-banned-phrase-racist/
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_4_racial-microaggression.html

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