Started by mavic0910 · 23 Sep 2007 · 53 replies
Daichi Kai wrote:
No sweat...
Only fears that B-san will use his real gun and not the water gun he used in his signature... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:
Actually this is good, except that we need to watch some information...
That's that... :beaten:
don wrote:This thread is so full of misinformation that it's almost funny. I think the OP must be a troll. If what he posted first were true, you would have read about it first in the news or elsewhere, not here in a drama forum of all places. :shakehead:
Could he be jealous that Japan exports mostly high tech, high value goods and has become the 2nd largest economy in the world without much natural resources while the Phillipines exports mostly low skilled service workers despite having a lot of natural resources.
The fact is Japan does not have a Judeo-Christian tradition nor the sexual repression that comes with that tradition.
As an American, I know how hung up about sex the U.S. is. It's unnatural. Just look at Bush. Clinton was smarter and knew what sex was all about but he was almost impeached for it!! Bush is dumb and has done much, much worse but he's still doing business as usual.
But that's the U.S., back to Japan. Japan is a sensual place. Before the war, mixed bathing was very common. It wasn't considered sexual. It was just bathing.
After the U.S. won, McArthur banned that practice, since his upbringing regarded it as sexual, and banned prostitution as well. But prostitution was never considered a high calling, it was just accepted as a fact of life.
(Sakuran was fake. Most prostitutes at Yoshiwara killed themselves at a young age. The woman provided to the first U.S. Ambassador to Japan also killed herself, after her "duty" was finished.)
FACT: Sex in public is not allowed in Japan, neither morally or legally. You will get your ass hauled off to jail, if you try it when you get here.
(and don't email me for help after that happens--Just get used to a diet of rice and miso soup for awhile.)
About a year ago, a cameraman and an "actress" were arrested in Yokohama because she was walking around town in the nude and he was filming her. A couple of passer bys saw this and quickly reported it to the police (but not before taking their own pictures with their cell phones.) FACT: Other perverts
have been arrested for trying to take pictures up women's skirts at train stations. FACT: Others have been arrested for breaking the child prostitution law
(you are considered a minor until the age of 20--however sex between minors over the age of 16 is not a crime) FACT: Some people, such as the OP, like to feed the "Japan is Weird" perception for some perverse reason or other. FACT: All countries are weird, don't get me started. :twisted:
One more fact: Japan has a strict anti-stalking law so watch out if you try to follow your favorite celebrity while in town. :naughty:
krim wrote:Yeah, but i think I need to gain more SME, so im off to do some research. :twisted:
nippon addict wrote:
you're talking like you're a racist huh...
first of all, Filipinos are not low-skilled!
it's like saying the White House head chef is low skilled? whoa... think again buddy... Nicole of PCD low-skilled? absolutely not... Batista, Billy Crowford, Apl de Ap being low-skilled? better think twice, thrice, or more than that buddy... :shakehead:
Filipinos are the most hardworking people in the world, and without you noticing, Filipinos are everywhere around the globe!
sorry for being off-topic but i was hurt when i saw this reply...
KUDOS TO ALL PINOYS OUT THERE...
krim wrote:
Don,
First, keep this civil, otherwise the thread will be locked, or i'll just delete all the posts. You're borderline (politely) flaming, and OP has a valid point, as many of us have seen the AVs in question.
FACT: Staged or not, the AVs exist. I'm not afraid to admit that i've seen a few.
Wierdness is in the perspective of the person, you seem to live in Japan, and are used to the culture. Most are not, and find some aspects strange, wierd, if you will. You yourself mentioned that other countries are wierd, have you stopped posting for a minute to consider a person in that country is thinking the exact same as you? Probably not... at least while you were typing.
So step back, take a breath. Consider OP not as a troll, but maybe someone who wants clarification.
This warning is for everyone participating in the thread.
don wrote:
nippon addict, I'm sincerely sorry for offending you but the OP was the one who was comparing his country to Japan. My remarks were based on an article I read in the U.S. News and World Report some time ago.
I've met some Filipino-Americans in the States. They were warm, kind, wonderful people and very hard working. One was a helicopter mechanic and another was a nurse, so they were quite skilled. Again, apologies.
That said, I think religion has almost everything to do with this issue. It's where people get their value systems. But one country's value system shouldn't be forced on another.
Also, when someone goes to the trouble of (1) creating a poll, (2) using a provocative thread title such as: Do Filipinos...(some controversial subject)?, and (3) show some outlandish excerpts from an underground movie and claim that it's real, then you have a troll. Excuse me for pointing that out.
krim wrote:
I'm the mod with the aresenal of weapons in the safe.. it's not Beemer you have to worry about get shot by.
shiroi_tora wrote:I think the drama you were watching was Ikebukuro West Gate Park right? I saw that one where Watanabe Ken (awsome actor, was a cop in the drama) and the other guy were looking through a stack of pornography and the other guy was telling Watanabe that they are fake but then he stopped and said no those were real
krim wrote:^
very good. :mrgreen:
E is usually Expert but you can substitute Expertise or Experience depending on where it's used... something I learned to use while interviewing.
don wrote:I do live in Tokyo but I'm not Japanese so I don't consider this a personal thing. However, it gets tiring to see such ludicrous things written about Japan such as this thread and a recent news article, "Japanese mistakes sheep for poodles." I know these kinds of threads pop up from time to time because some people don't have better use of their time. I had a few minutes to spare so I added what I thought needed to be said.
Well, I've already spent too much time on this. You needn't respond, I won't be revisiting this issue.
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