Japan to ban internet users for file sharing

I do have to ponder why they continuously insist on isolating themselves so much.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

And no, Japanezeshorty is American, ethnic Japanese. We have posters from all over the world, and almost none of them are Japanese.

Ok Brady, you're absolutely correct in that I'm a fucking American, but how did I get pulled into this argument? This just flew out of nowhere buddy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Well the question or something to that effect was if we had that many Japanese users and you're like the only known user who is ethnic Japanese that would be close to that.

Okay yah what Mo0 said.

Ah ok, I was just quickly browsing through the posts at work so I must have missed Peter's reference / didn't realize I was being set up as an example.

To that note, I don't know if I apply to the example Peter has given... I am of Japanese origin by blood, but I was born and raised here. I was born into, and raised in a community of maybe 60-70% of the population being Japanese or at least Japanese-American decent. But that was back in the 80's. After the stock market crash of 1990 (or was it 91/92? I forget), the environment of that particular community drastically changed. All the Japanese business men who came here with their families for business moved back, and the Japaense School I attended almost went bankrupt (just to give you an idea of how drastic a change was, in my first grade year there were 2 classes of kids of about 30 students each in my same grade. By the time I graduated 6th grade, there were 7 of us from the same class).

Yes, it's true most Japanese people stick to their own kind, and I can think of few little old ladies living in Gardena, CA whom have immigrated here 40 years ago and still can live here in the states without having to speak a dime of English. I can vouch for some truth in that. But that's also true for a lot of Mexican, Taiwanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, and any other ethnic groups out there who live in America, bring their own culture, and still live in it as if they are living in their own country. With that said, I don't think it's fair in the argument that Japanese are the only people who "don't change." Bigblah has already demonstrated this argument I think, so I'll end my statement here.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Peter

Sorry for dragging you into this Shorty, you're the only member I could think of who had a link to Japan, aside from the otaku.

Eh, no harm done. I just didn't see myself as a relative example to the topic.

On the note that Japanese are totally exclusively secluding themselves to only their culture, that's not entirely true either. :3 I count 2 types of Japanese exchange students: those who come here on daddy's allowance because they fucking can (these are the ones that go to Santa Monica College, live with Japanese roommates, work under the table at Japanese restaurants in the area, and leech/borrow Japanese TV shows and watch them exclusively), and those who come here actually wanting to study the language and the culture (i.e., those that go study in places like KENTUCKY, ALABAMA, WISCONSIN, to give an example -- but that's not to say ALL Japanese exchange students studying in California aren't like that too, it's just California easily just has most feasibily easy access back to the home country, culture, FOOD most importantly, just because we have a lot of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, even 5th generations that have kept the old Japanese-American tradition alive).

I think you guys just scared most of them away from our forums since we all have a tendancy to bash them quite hard when they finally decide to speak up. But whatevers, I'm talking culture in a thread discussing Networking technology. I'll shut up.

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