Rant About Japan
Still keeping up with what's going in my former home, I came across this article.
Japan Schools to Rethink Beating
Now, news about bullying in Japan is not new. What really pisses me off is this:
"Japan's education minister had previously denied bullying was a factor in the youth suicide rate."
ARE. YOU. FUCKING. JOKING.
A blind deaf-mute could tell you bullying is, not only a problem in Japan, but a major contributing factor to the youth suicide rate. It FLABBERGASTS me . . . ab-so-fucking-lutely ASTOUNDS me that someone in charge of the education for a country could be that deliberately blind/stupid/if-I-ignore-the-problem-it-doesn't-really-exist about something so fucking obvious. I saw it every single day I went to school. I saw a 2nd year student taunting a mentally disabled student by yelling the word 'cunt' repeatedly while the mentally disabled student covered his ears and begged him to stop. Students were ignored, made fun of constantly, and often right in front of a teacher who did nothing either b/c they didn't want to or couldn't. Hell, I saw teachers who were friends with bullies and participated in the bullying. And it takes a fucking COMMITTEE to come to this determination?! A determination, I might add, that won't actually result in anything stronger than a suggestion that something be done. No law, no directive from the education ministry, nothing.
And Japan wonders why their 'race' will be extinct in 1000 years. B/c they're too goddamned caught up in 'face' and 'purity' to actually implement and enforce plans that might make living in their country a little more worthwhile . If the nationalists keep having their way, they won't make it to 500. Well, go ahead. Keep ignoring the problems. Keep isolating yourself and not counting the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants (forced immigrants I might add) and the children of mixed marriages as citizens. Keep treating your women like shit so they prefer the company of foreign men to that of Japanese misogynistic men. In 500 years, the only people practicing your sacred arts and preserving what's left of your country will be the foreigners that you despise so much. And we'll all laugh as we walk with shoes on your tatami and waste rice and sell off your national treasures to foreign collectors and museums while you rot in hell and moan about the long-lost Yamamoto race.
*sigh*
I don't hate Japan. I just don't understand their seemingly self-destructive practices. And I get angry b/c I know a lot of good people there. I love tea ceremony and kimono and the smell of fresh tatami and ramen and so many, many things and places and people. It hurts me to think that b/c of ideas like 'face' and 'purity', the things I love will disappear.
But that's just an outsiders perspective. You would think I would be over it by now.
Japan Schools to Rethink Beating
Now, news about bullying in Japan is not new. What really pisses me off is this:
"Japan's education minister had previously denied bullying was a factor in the youth suicide rate."
ARE. YOU. FUCKING. JOKING.
A blind deaf-mute could tell you bullying is, not only a problem in Japan, but a major contributing factor to the youth suicide rate. It FLABBERGASTS me . . . ab-so-fucking-lutely ASTOUNDS me that someone in charge of the education for a country could be that deliberately blind/stupid/if-I-ignore-the-problem-it-doesn't-really-exist about something so fucking obvious. I saw it every single day I went to school. I saw a 2nd year student taunting a mentally disabled student by yelling the word 'cunt' repeatedly while the mentally disabled student covered his ears and begged him to stop. Students were ignored, made fun of constantly, and often right in front of a teacher who did nothing either b/c they didn't want to or couldn't. Hell, I saw teachers who were friends with bullies and participated in the bullying. And it takes a fucking COMMITTEE to come to this determination?! A determination, I might add, that won't actually result in anything stronger than a suggestion that something be done. No law, no directive from the education ministry, nothing.
And Japan wonders why their 'race' will be extinct in 1000 years. B/c they're too goddamned caught up in 'face' and 'purity' to actually implement and enforce plans that might make living in their country a little more worthwhile . If the nationalists keep having their way, they won't make it to 500. Well, go ahead. Keep ignoring the problems. Keep isolating yourself and not counting the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants (forced immigrants I might add) and the children of mixed marriages as citizens. Keep treating your women like shit so they prefer the company of foreign men to that of Japanese misogynistic men. In 500 years, the only people practicing your sacred arts and preserving what's left of your country will be the foreigners that you despise so much. And we'll all laugh as we walk with shoes on your tatami and waste rice and sell off your national treasures to foreign collectors and museums while you rot in hell and moan about the long-lost Yamamoto race.
*sigh*
I don't hate Japan. I just don't understand their seemingly self-destructive practices. And I get angry b/c I know a lot of good people there. I love tea ceremony and kimono and the smell of fresh tatami and ramen and so many, many things and places and people. It hurts me to think that b/c of ideas like 'face' and 'purity', the things I love will disappear.
But that's just an outsiders perspective. You would think I would be over it by now.