1 名前：蚯蚓φ ★[sage] 投稿日：2012/07/16(月) 11:43:59.44 ID:???
英語に「ジャップ・スラップ（jap-slap）」というスラングがある。日本人を侮辱する「ジャップ」と「殴る」という意味の「スラップ」が合成された言葉だ。直訳すれば「日本X、ぶん殴る」ぐらいになる。とん
でもない失敗や過ちを犯した場合よく使われる。再び悪いことを繰り返すなという警告の意味が込められている。相手の両眼を両側に引っ張って日本人の様に裂けた目を作って額を素早く殴ることで状況が終了する。
「ジャップ」は悪いことばかりする民族という意味も何時のまにか内包されて日本の人々には不快なことこの上ない言葉だ。
「ジャップ・スラップ」の原産地はハワイだ。20～30年前だけでもハワイには「スラップ・ア・ジャップ・デイ(Slap a Jap Day)」があった。この日だけは日本人を素早く殴っても処罰を受けなかったという。
12月7日、すなわち日本が真珠湾を奇襲爆撃して太平洋戦争を起こしたその日だ。悪いことをした日本をこらしめようとしてその日を「スラップ・ア・ジャップ・デイ」に決めたということだ。
この日が韓人社会に知られたのは小説家ノラ・オクジャ・ケラーを通じてだ。去る1997年「慰安婦(Comfort Woman)」を発表して米国社会に途方もない反響を呼び起こした韓国系女性だ。あるインタービューでケラー自身が小学校時代にも「日本人殴ろう日」があったと明らかにして視聴者たちを驚かせた。
日系が大手を振るハワイでこういう日があったということが信じられない。額を一発殴れば羞恥心がかなり大きく、これに対する不満がなかったというから、多分「その日」を骨に凍みるほど悔いたためでないかと思ったりもする。
ケラーはドイツ系の父と韓国人の母の間に生まれた混血だ。偶然、人権集会で慰安婦、黄錦周(ファン・クムジュ)おばあさんに会って衝撃を受けて書いた本が「慰安婦」だ。スンヒョは慰安所でアキコと呼ばれて人生の荒波にひき裂かれ始める。「私はまだ男性未経験だったので競売で最高値で売れた。しかし、その後は誰でも自由に(私のからだを)所有できたので…。」
脱出に成功したスンヒョはしかし、あえて故郷へ帰る意欲がわかない。そのままアキコで生きていくことにした彼女は米国人宣教師に会ってハワイに移住、娘を産んで育てる。主人公は消せない傷を拭い去ろうと努めるより「巫女おばさん」のように戦場で倒れていった多くの魂を集める。
この小説を世の中に知らせ推薦したのは意外にも日系二世のミチコ・カクタニだ。ニューヨーク・タイムズ・エディターの彼女はピューリッツァ賞を受けた当代最高の文学批評家で文壇での影響力が絶対的だ。そのカクタニが異例にもほぼ一面をこの小説を紹介するのに割いた。
彼女は「慰安婦」という用語は非常に紛らわしいと書いた。「性的奴隷」がふさわしい言葉なのにこれを婉曲に表現したとして日本の蛮行を鋭く暴いた。それと共に切迫してすさまじかった苦痛を娘に対する愛に昇華させたと絶賛した。
カクタニの好評でケラーは翌年、出版界最高の栄誉である「アメリカン・ブック・アワード」を受けた。
日系コミュニティはカクタニを始めとして下院慰安婦決議案を主導したマイク・ホンダ議員など良識ある二世が少なくない。それでも慰安婦キリム碑撤去を要求してホワイトハウスに請願を入れる「醜いジャップ」がいてこの頃、眉をひそめさせている。
こういう日本人の額に一発お見舞いしたらさっぱりしそうだ。「ジャップ・スラップ！日本は反省しろ」と言いながら…。
ソース：ukopia(韓国語) 'この日'通りで会った日本人殴っても処罰を受けない国は？
http://ukopia.com/ukoCommon/?page_code=read&sid=1&sub=headline&uid=148348
'이날' 거리서 만난 일본인 때려줘도 처벌받지 않는 나라는?
2012-07-15 14:09 (한국시간)
영어에 '잽 슬랩(jap-slap)'이란 슬랭이 있다. 일본인을 비하하는 '잽'과 '때려주다'는 뜻의 '슬랩'이 합성된 말이다. 직역하면 '일본X 패주다' 쯤이 되겠다. 어처구니 없는 실수나 잘못을 저지를 경우 흔히 쓰인다. 다시는 나쁜 짓을 되풀이하지 말라는 경고의 의미를 담고 있다.
상대방의 두 눈을 양쪽으로 잡아 당겨 일본인처럼 찢어진 눈을 만들고는 이마를 살짝 때리는 것으로 상황이 종료된다. '잽'은 나쁜 짓만 골라서 하는 민족이란 뜻도 은연중 내포돼 있어 일본사람들에게는 불쾌하기 짝이 없는 말이다.
'잽 슬랩'의 원산지는 하와이다. 20~30년 전만 해도 하와이에선 '슬랩 어 잽 데이(Slap a Jap Day)가 있었다. 이날만큼은 일본인을 살짝 때려줘도 처벌을 받지 않았다고 한다. 12월 7일, 곧 일본이 진주만을 기습폭격해 태평양 전쟁을 일으킨 바로 그날이다. 못된 짓을 한 일본을 혼내주자며 그날을 '슬랩 어 잽 데이'로 정했다는 것이다.
이 날이 한인사회에 알려지게 된 것은 소설가 노라 옥자 켈러를 통해서다. 지난 1997년 '위안부(Comfort Woman)'를 발표해 미국사회에 엄청난 반향을 불러일으킨 한국계 여성이다.
어느 인터뷰에서 켈러는 자신이 초등학교시절 때만 해도 '일본인 때려주기 날'이 있었다고 밝혀 시청자들을 놀라게 했다. 일본계가 판을 치는 하와이에서 이런 날이 있었다는 게 도시 믿기지 않는다. 이마를 한대씩 맞았다면 수치심이 꽤 컸을 법 한데 이에 대한 불만이 없었다니 아마 '그날'을 뼈저리게 뉘우친 때문이 아닐까 싶기도 하다.
켈러는 독일계 아버지와 한국인 어머니 사이에서 태어난 혼혈이다. 우연히 인권집회에서 위안부 황금주 할머니를 만나 충격을 받아 쓴 책이 '위안부'다.
순효는 위안소에서 아키코라 불리며 인생의 험난한 파도에 찢기기 시작한다. "나는 아직 남자를 경험하지 않아 경매로 가장 비싼 값에 팔렸다. 그러나 이후엔 누구나 자유롭게 (내 몸을) 소유할 수 있었기에…."
탈출에 성공한 순효는 그러나 고향으로 돌아갈 엄두를 못낸다. 그냥 아키코로 살아가기로 한 그는 미국인 선교사를 만나 하와이로 이주, 딸 베카를 낳아 기른다. 주인공은 지워질 수 없는 상처를 도려내려 애쓰기 보다는 '만신 아지매'처럼 전장에서 스러져간 많은 넋들을 거둬들인다.
정작 소설을 세상에 알리고 추천한 것은 뜻밖에도 니세이(일본계 2세) 미치코 카쿠타니다. 뉴욕타임스 에디터인 그는 퓰리처상을 받은 당대 최고의 문학비평가다. 문단에선 '저승사자'로 통할 정도로 영향력이 절대적이다.
그런 카쿠타니가 이례적으로 거의 한 면을 이 소설을 소개하는데 할애했다. 그는 '위안부'란 용어에 매우 혼란스러웠다고 썼다. '성노예'가 맞는 말인데 이를 완곡하게 표현했다며 일본의 만행을 예리하게 파헤쳤다. 그러면서 절박하고 처절했던 고통을 딸에 대한 사랑으로 승화시켰다고 극찬했다.
카쿠타니의 호평으로 켈러는 이듬해 출판계 최고의 영예인 '아메리칸 북 어워즈' 상을 받았다.
일본계 커뮤니티엔 카쿠타니를 비롯해 하원 위안부 결의안을 주도한 마이크 혼다 의원 같은 양식있는 니세이들이 적지 않다. 그런데도 위안부 기림비 철거를 요구하며 백악관에 청원을 넣는 '어글리 잽'이 있어 요즘 눈살을 찌푸리게 한다. 이런 일본인에 이마를 한대씩 줘박았으면 속이 다 후련해질 것 같기도 하다. "잽 슬랩! 일본은 반성하고 뉘우쳐라" 하며….
http://toriton.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-1953.html
uKopiaは、在米韓国人向けのニュースサイト。
ＵＳＡ＋KoreanだからuKopia･･･らしい。
まったく･･･
こんな記事ばかり書き、”恨”をむき出しにして姑息に喜んでいるのだろうか。
可哀そうなオツムだこと。
＞黄錦周(ファン・クムジュ)おばあさん
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E9%8C%A6%E5%91%A8
★黄錦周の証言とは
http://www.geocities.jp/vivelejapon1945/jugun.html
黄錦周(ファン・クムジュ）という人がいるが、
この人は自らは強制連行の被害にあったと証言する
有名な人であるが、この人の証言が実は有効な証言ではない。
それは証言内容がころころ変わるからである。
例えば高木健一著『従軍慰安婦と戦後賠償』では
「生家が貧しく12歳の時100円で売られて
ソウルの金持ちの家で小間使い、
1938年に咸鏡南道ハムン郡で女中をしていた時
その家の娘の身代わりとなって満州に連行され
慰安婦となる」
と証言しているのに、
注）「３年で借金が返せると思った」とも証言している。
1995年7月24日から27日夕刊の朝日新聞のインタビューでは
「咸興の女学校在学中の17歳の時、
1939年に国民徴用令で動員され軍需工場に行くと
思っていたが着いたところは吉林の慰安所だった」
と証言が一貫しない、しかもそのうえに朝鮮人女性に
国民徴用令が出たのは1944年であるから
1939年に徴用されること自体ありえない話である。
しかも吉林には朝鮮人経営の妓桜が5件も営業していた
こともあり吉林には慰安婦を置いていなかった。
しかもこの黄錦周はその朝日新聞のインタビューの中で
「最初の一年はその将校専属で昼間は兵卒の看病もした。
三年目からは部隊内の慰安所で兵卒の相手、
クリスマスには特に相手が多かった。
カネは受け取っていない。
そのまま部隊で終戦を迎えた日本兵は軍服を脱ぎ捨てて
逃げいった。」
とも証言しているがこれもありえない話である。
軍医も衛生兵もいる部隊でなぜ慰安婦が兵卒の看病をするのか？
日本軍にクリスマスなどなかったはずなのに
なぜクリスマスの時に客が増えるのか？
なぜ日本軍は私服を持参していないのに
軍服を捨てて逃げていったのか、
また何を着て逃げて言ったのかまったくわからない。
さて、ハワイには確かに真珠湾攻撃に対して
未だに反日感情を抱く人達がいるだろう。
しかし、どんなに検索しても
"Slap a Jap Day”があったと証言するのは
今の所、ホノルル生まれの韓国系アメリカ人の証言以外
どんなに探しても見つからないのは何故だろう･･･
ホノルル生まれの韓国系アメリカ人David Hahnさんによると
http://www.towerofbabel.com/sections/ourmaninhavana/ourmanfromhawaii/
この日は、日系だけでなくアフリカ系も中国系もフィリピン系も
（1861年に始まった南北戦争でアメリカ南部からの砂糖の
供給が途絶えると、白人事業主はハワイにサトウキビ農園を
つくり、乏しい労働力を補うために日本や中国、フィリピン
から農奴を輸入しました歴史があるので）
そして韓国系も！
有色人種は侮辱されたらしい･･･
但し、アメリカ本土に比べたら格段に差別が少ないとか･･･
この記者は知らないのか故意に隠しているのか、
その頃のハワイには
"Kill Haole Day"だって有ったらしい。
ごく一部の人達の間で･･･
Haoleというのは、ハワイの言葉で外国人・新参者。
「カマアイナKama’aina」 ハワイ生まれの
「ロコLocal」 現地の
「マラヒニMalahini」 新参者new comer
そして、「ハウリーHaole」は
本来の意味は「青白い顔」で、ハワイ島にやってきた白人を指す。
日系人は、「ハウリーHaole」とは呼ばれない。
カマアイナはネイティヴ・ハワイアン（混血も含む）を指し、
ロコはそれよりも少し広い意味で日系やフィリピン系ハワイ人
も含むが、たとえハワイ生まれでも白人が「ロコ」を名乗る
ことには抵抗があるようで、
ハワイに暮らす白人はマラヒニ（新参者）であり、
ロコ（現地人）にはなれないのだという。
この背景にはもちろん、
ハワイ王国の滅亡の歴史が大きく影響している。
◎【ハワイ王朝】カイウラニ王女
美貌のハワイ王国最期の王位継承者
http://ameblo.jp/audrey-beautytips/entry-10625374931.html
◎哀しいプリンセス
http://jvtacademy.com/blog/co/hawai/2011/05/
植民地化の歴史の中で、ハワイ人たちは先祖の土地を
白人に奪われ、サトウキビ農園で奴隷として
過酷な労働を強制されることになりました。
ハワイの不動産取引では借地物件が多いのですが
これは少数の白人大地主が大半の土地を所有している
ためです。
現在ではその比率はかなり下がりましたが、
21世紀に至っても「ビッグ・セブン」などと呼ばれる
白人大地主がハワイの土地の4分の1を支配する
異常な事態が続いています。
こうした状況の中で、ハワイ島の白人永住者が
疎外感や“逆差別”を感じることも少なくないようで、
一部の公立学校では本土からやってきた白人の子どもに
対するいじめが深刻な問題になっていました。
これが"Kill Haole Day"
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20101115_Judges_cite_Kill_Haole_Day.html
http://digitaljournal.com/article/264650
逆に“軍人の町”パールシティでは、
メインランド（アメリカ本土）から来た白人達による
有色人種への差別が問題になりました。
これが"Slap a Jap Day”なのかも･･･
勿論、米国内で未だに真珠湾攻撃のあった12月7日に
日本をぶっ潰そうなどと煽るサイトや書き込みは有る。
大抵、当時の"被害者"なんかではなく
若者のうっぷん晴らしのような攻撃性のあるサイトが多い。
韓国人は、
白人が日本人をJapと蔑むのをこの上なく喜び
日本人を「倭猿」と侮辱するけれどね、
アホですね･･･
彼らのイエローモンキーは日本人だけでなく
アンタ達の事も含まれてんだよwww
平気で日本人侮辱発言や、黒人差別発言をするくせに
自分達が差別的行為をされると、火病を起こして喚く･･･
つくづく、民度が低いなぁ～と思う。
日本人を殴っても処罰を受けない国は？
処罰は受けるが、異常に軽い国は有るよね。
そう、韓国！
★ソウル日本人幼稚園児襲撃事件
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E4%BA%BA%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E5%9C%92%E5%85%90%E8%A5%B2%E6%92%83%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6
★韓国日本人学校襲撃事件
http://www.geocities.jp/koreanurupo/
６歳の幼稚園児の頭に斧を振り下ろし頭蓋骨陥没の
重傷を負わせておきながら、心神耗弱状態だったからと
たったの懲役４年で許されてしまう国･･･
このukopiaの記事
ホワイトハウスやアメリカ大使館に報告して
在米日系人の保護要請と、人種差別についての
警告をしたいですね。
日本の外務省にも、アメリカへ渡航する際に
このような”在米韓人記者”がいる危険性を通知して
日本人観光客と日系アメリカ人の保護要請を
アメリカ政府に伝達して貰いたいものです！
■ホワイトハウス
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
■アメリカ大使館
http://japanese.japan.usembassy.gov/
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ukopia記事のURLや内容を報告して
「アメリカに観光旅行したいが安全だろうか？」とか
「醜いジャップと公然と人種差別する韓国系記者について
貴国の良識ある対応を求める」とか
「在米韓人社会にSlap a Jap Dayを煽るかのような
記事が公然と発信されている行為をどう思うか」とか
「子供がアメリカ留学を希望しているが
このような状態では不安である。
危険はないのか、お聞きしたい。」とか
「アメリカ旅行中に、いきなり殴られないか不安です」とか
「貴国の人種差別政策は機能しているのか？」とか
色々な意見を投稿するのも良いかと思います。
http://digitaljournal.com/article/264650
Will Obama's Election End Kill Haole Day in Hawaii?
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Jan 6, 2009 in Lifestyle
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Kill haole day has been around for decades. It's not a myth; young people say it happens, and sometimes incidents hit the press on the islands.
Local school kids in Hawaii will harass and sometimes beat up on mainland young people, largely Caucasian. Tourists don't know of this culture, but local people do. It isn't discussed openly or written about in newspapers, but it has been part of island practice among some of the young people.
I lived in Hawaii for 28 years and heard both local and mainland folk who had children talk about kill haole day. This was a designated time during the year, usually maintained by the youth at any given school, when local kids targeted mainland children or teens. Adults snickered about the practice and likely reinforced its continuing practice. Haole is the term used mostly for white people from the mainland but it literally means foreign born or outsider.
Hawaii prides itself on its racial balance and harmony, yet the kill haole practice stays hidden most of the time but comes up during times of conflict. In the 1970's the struggle between locals and mainlanders took an extreme response when Hawaii enacted a law requiring all people to live in Hawaii for a year before being able to work in any government job. Private companies subsequently followed state employers, so it was difficult for people arriving from the mainland to find work. The kill haole day practice was in full swing, perhaps a reaction to the incursion of Caucasians that had gone to various parts of the islands and formed a subculture, often of drugs and sex with multiple partners that was part of the culture of the 1970's in Hawaii.
Hawaii voted heavily in favor of Obama, a young man born in Hawaii but who has lived many years in Illinois and whose mother was a haole. Now as it celebrates with the rest of the nation the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, Hawaii will celebrate it because Obama is that local boy and one of Hawaii's own. But will that stop the kill haole day and practice that has been a part of island culture or will it continue to be a stain on the island's image of racial harmony in paradise? Many locals and mainlanders hope that the practice will stop when Obama takes office and that he might bring a higher level of recognition towards the harmony needed among people to make the nation, and Hawaii, come together to solve the critical problems ahead.
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Judges cite 'Kill Haole Day'
After a court rejects anonymity for plaintiffs suing Kamehameha Schools, the dissents note racism
By Ken Kobayashi
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 15, 2010
LAST UPDATED: 01:43 p.m. HST, Nov 17, 2010
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A federal appeals court ruling that rejected a challenge to the Kamehameha Schools admissions practice includes a heated debate over whether four non-Hawaiian students would be subject to racial attacks if their identities were revealed.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a brief order last week denying a request by the four for a rehearing on the issue of whether they may anonymously pursue a lawsuit contesting the schools' preferential policy for students with Hawaiian blood.
But attached to the ruling were lengthy dissents and a defense of the decision that are rare for orders on rehearing requests.
Chief Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski and Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote strongly worded dissents, referring to "Kill Haole Day" at Hawaii's schools and arguing the four would be endangered in a "racially charged environment."
Three other judges defended the order, pointing out that, historically, the names of juveniles in significant civil rights cases have been disclosed. The cases, they wrote, include Brayden Mohica-Cummings' 2003 lawsuit challenging the Kamehameha policy and the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation.
U.S. District Judge Michael Seabright was correct when he denied the students' request to proceed anonymously, the three wrote.
Paul Alston, Kamehameha Schools' attorney, who said he was pleased but not surprised by the order, called the dissents "factually wrong and just off-based."
David Rosen, lawyer for the four, said he found it interesting that the two dissenting judges felt so strongly.
"Obviously, we agree with them," he said.
Rosen said it is likely they will appeal.
If the Supreme Court declines to review the decision, last week's order signals the end of the only pending court challenge to the admissions policy.
The four filed their lawsuit after a similar suit by an unidentified, non-Hawaiian student and his mother settled with Kamehameha Schools for $7 million in 2007 just before the high court was to decide whether to hear the case.
In that case the 9th Circuit had ruled 8-7 that the schools' policy did not violate the Civil Rights Act.
Kamehameha Schools did not oppose the student's remaining anonymous, but objected when the four also sought anonymity. U.S. Magistrate Barry Kurren and later, Seabright, ruled that the four did not establish that they would be imperiled.
Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld the rulings, expressing sympathy with the students and parents but asserting that the Hawaii judges were within their discretion in finding the students' fears "unreasonable."
Lawyers for the four asked for a larger "en banc" panel of 11 appeals judges to rehear the case. The order last week denied that request.
In dissent, Kozinski quoted anonymous online remarks saying the students "would have to watch their backs for the rest of their lives." If similar threats were made against him or his family, he would call U.S. marshals, he wrote.
"No litigant should fear for his safety, or that of his family, as a condition of seeking justice," he wrote.
Kozinski agreed with Reinhardt, who wrote a separate dissent that described Hawaii has a "racially charged environment."
"In recent years, Hawaii has endured a spate of anti-Caucasian violence," he wrote. "The last day in Hawaiian schools, for example, has long been known as 'Kill Haole Day,' with white students - 'haoles' - targeted for harassment and physical abuse."
Alston said Kurren and Seabright found that the angry remarks did not have credibility or substance.
The dissenters, Alston said, "should have given credence to the assessments made by judges in the community instead of blowing up the snippets that were taken out of context."
Appeals Judges Robert Beezer, Susan Graber and Raymond Fisher, who wrote the earlier decision denying the four from proceeding anonymously, defended last week's order.
"Consider, for instance, that in the past students have used their real names when challenging Kamehameha's admissions processes," their opinion said. "Not only that, those students have since prevailed and enrolled in the school, with no incidents whatsoever, either in class or in public."
They also cited the four's own statements that they did not fear "possible retaliation and ostracism" at the schools if they were admitted.
http://www.towerofbabel.com/sections/ourmaninhavana/ourmanfromhawaii/
Our Man From Hawaii
David Hahn
Saffron Boy Moves To The Big City
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. A place that I've often heard touted as one of those wonderful Cultural Melting Pots (a phrase which never fails to raise the most disturbing mental images in me) which sprinkle this Great and Good Country of Ours. Well, don't you believe it! While it may be true that there is a wide variation of ethnicity in the Hawaiian populous, they all hate each other, and would enjoy nothing better than to feast on their neighbors' livers. Growing up under the tutelage of the choicest facilities of academia in that state, I recall such marvelously repulsive student "holidays" as "Slap-a-Jap Day" and "Kill Haole Day". Slap-a-Jap Day was held on December 7th, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, and as the name implies, on this date it somehow became culturally acceptable to go postal on the Watanabe Jr.'s of the student body. Kill Haole Day, well, that was usually on the last day of school. "Haole" is the Hawaiian word for "white" but through the years it has become somewhat of a euphemism along the same lines as "whitey" or "cracker"...and, well, I think you get the picture.
I'm Korean-American myself, and at least on these dates, managed to avoid a sound beating. By the way, can someone tell me why it is necessary to add that little ethnic rejoinder to my socio-cultural affiliation: Korean-American, Native-American, African-American, etc.? I've never been able to get away with saying I'm just plain American, when confronted with the ugly and insulting question, "What are you?" Even though I was born in this country and English is my native tongue and I've never lived in Korea, one look at these freakin' slanted eyes and I'm somehow required to label myself with that freakin' ethnic albatross. And yet somehow it just doesn't sound right or even necessary if someone were to say they were English-American, German-American, or French-American (accept perhaps if you're talking about a war). Just an observation.
In any case, living in the Isle of Smiles, I was bombarded by a veritable plethora of stereotypes: the Koreans or Yobos were quick tempered and ate dogs as did the Filipinos or Flips, the Samoans were slow and violent, the Chinese were cheap and so on and so forth. I learned to be pigeon-holed like all the rest in some vast and hideous system, generated by us, the fair denizens of this horrible Devil Rock in the middle of the Pacific. However, after what seemed like a couple of eons, I finally graduated, and managed to escape with my sorry ass hide relatively intact.
After college, I eventually gravitated to yet another ethnically diverse metropolis, "The City", San Francisco. During the nigh on 10 years I've lived in the Bay Area, I've been beaten and mugged, hassled by the Man, conned out hundreds of dollars and spat on, but like an abused housewife that still goes back to her twisted hubby, I have to say I still love it here.
And I think one of the reasons I do is because that pigeon-hole I lived in back in Hawaii is a lot bigger. When people look at me they don't see a Yobo, they see a generic slant. Granted it's a far cry from your average Cultural Melting Pot (yech!) if such a thing really exists, but I can deal with it here a lot better. So when someone asks me if I speak Japanese, or if I can recommend a really good Chinese restaurant, I can't help but chuckle a bit, while I work my fists o' steel into their pancreas, and think to myself, "At least it isn’t Hawaii."
1945 The morass history in base of U.S. Army and prostitutions,Korean comfort women
1 米軍と韓国人慰安婦の泥沼の歴史 1945～基地売春 パート１／４
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM8WxGpfQj0&list=PLFDF07D6CCC270C67&feature=plcp
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