[bonesmccoy]

"pure"?!?!

You clearly do not know the history of Japan.

You also do not appear to want to discuss the history of ANY island nation, like Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Taiwan, etc.

Furthermore, your anti japanese racism is rather obvious from your tone and weak arguments.

While you ignore the fact that Israel/Palestine focuses ENTIRELY on genetics and Jewish/Pali blood, you accuse the Japanese of being "hung up on their Japaneseness".

Hilarious!

Also, that photo was NOT of a bus.

ROTFL

The photo was of a crowd on a Japanese subway.

If you had any REAL experience in Japan, it would be immediately obvious. This just proves my point.

You have no real world experience to comment on Japan or the Japanese people.

Give it up... you're making me gag on my morning coffee in laughter.

[Mamzelle]

Japanese culture and language are a pastiche of borrowings from the Chinese and Korean. Classic and inventive borrowers and adaptors, they have a keen appreciation for their own "Japaneseness." You don't have to read very far to find the cherished insularity, their sense of disctinction. As I said, and as you ignored, why not? That's their privilege. Even their beef is specially bred for the distinct digestive properties of the Japanese belly... But they can make a few spaces for some refugees if they are to be taken seriously in the leadership department.

You make only the point that there is no such thing as "pure", and your implication of racism rather ignores the fact that I put the adjective within the quotation marks that it deserves.

Bus, schmus. Who cares?

If they want to defend themselves from Kim they ought to prepare themselves to accept some Korean refugees, which is what this discussion is about--not your vast and important world travels.