Une publicité japonaise pour Softbank, avec leur fameux chien - la bestiole a rendu ces publicités très populaires ici, je me demande pourquoi - avec de vrais morceaux de français.

Edit : White dog much preferred over black man, édifiant.
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Political Correctness is about as intelligent as two brain-dead frogs on Viagra pushing a Ford truck up a hill for lack of gas.

Um… You win the metaphor contest!

- Drew

That said, Nate’s comments have inspired me to write my own little rant about the whole farce surrounding political correctness and the insultingly persistent “sensitivity training” that tends to go along with it. And what am I? I’m an extremely pale Caucasian who has lost the ability to tan due to a melanin deficiency as a result of programming computers for years in dark rooms and staying out of natural light for more than 15 minutes a day. If it weren’t for my soft-as-a-rabbit brown hair, you’d swear I was albino.

Just do me a favour, Nate: don’t be overly sensitive about calling me “toothpaste” or whatever other name you might have up your sleeve. I know what I look like, and I’ve accepted the fact that I’m not as sleek and sexy as Barbados Slim

Now off to write my rant. Wheeee!

Are you serious, or is the heat affecting your thought processes? Why on earth would anyone sue anyone else for stating what they were? Am I being sexual for calling him a “man” too? I better watch out before Kai-kun sues me for being a caninalist too. Should I call him Black with a capital B? Or African-Japanese? Or what? “Animal of no colour much preferred over Bipedal Vertebrate of Colour” doesn’t make quite so snappy a headline.

Anyway, I can’t see how you can call me racist when some of my best friends back at the caves are Nig Nogs.

Love and kisses,
Ken Y-N

I’m sure you’ve seen the black sambo display outside of some eating places in Japan or comedians and even some singers doing the black face routine on Japanese TV. Now I am not a PC type of person by any stretch of the imagination but some of this goes beyond the realm of good taste. I know some longterm gaijins who end up being desensitized and think nothing of it. Some of the ignorance on the part of Japanese when it comes to cultural sensitivity sometimes rubs off on gaijins.

What makes the gaijin population more annoying than an ignorant nipponjin though is that most of them think just because they live in Japan and understand the language, that it gives them a big fat license to become know it all authorities on the country when in fact, their real understanding of the actual culture is rudimentary at best. Just reading a bunch of foreigner in Japan blogs like the ones that are on the blogroll over at JapanSoc makes me shake my head at how superficial many are.

So does it surprise you that this pseudo-scientific blog tries to interpret data from a narrow portion of the Japanese population and tries to extrapolate it to what Japan is actually thinking? That’s a big laugh because most gaijins even if they are married to a Japanese national still have problems really trying to understand where their mate and family is coming from on some matters.

I mean there is no sense of humor in your writing if you meant that to be your safe conduit out of this utter nonsense! Why did you use the term black man? I hope Dante can sue your racist ass and surely bankrupt you!

Slither back to the caves where racists like you rightly belong to in this time and generation!

Nate