<<Encounter With the Unknown Part-3>>
I forgot to explain in part-2 about the
news of Korean American claiming racism against the cabin.
Majority opinion of Japanese web community
about the news was negative against Korean American’s claim.
First of all, this Korean American was
demanding to let 4 adults with two dogs stay at the cottage $50 per night. And
the owner of the cottage was saying in exchange with her in chatting “You must
be crazy to request such a low price to stay during high season” But the news reported this incident with the
Korean American as a racial issue. It was obviously not a racial issue but the
usual over-demanding Korean problem which Japanese people encounter quite often
in Japan. So majority of Japanese people are sympathetic for the owner of the
cottage feeling the same way. And people in Japan said, “There you go! Koreans
are doing the same thing even in the US!”
Just like “Wasabi terrorism” Korean
tourists claimed in Japan. When they felt a little bit too much wasabi in
Sushi, Korean claimed “Wasabi terrorism! Racist!” When the Sushi restaurant
then put aside Wasabi on the dish so Korean customers could adjust the amount
by themselves, Korean tourists again claimed “Racist! Why did you do this to us!”
“Duh! Get out of here!” Hahaha Anything you do they take it as an evil
intention because all Koreans have an evil intension and hatred against
Japanese and other races so they think other people must have the same mean
character as Koreans. And they conclude everything in racism whenever they feel
unsatisfied. And this will lead you to Korean fatigue. I guess both Japanese
and American will get tired of Koreans once they get to know what kind of
people Koreans are. Koreans are a single race so most of them (about 80-90%)
are evenly like that.
One of the things Korean people can’t
understand Japanese is that Japanese people are not looking at people by skin
color.
Koreans are intense racists emphasizing
their pedigree and skin color. So they are anti-Japanese but when they
encounter different skin color such as White people, they say to Japanese and
Chinese “Let’s get together against America! (meaning against White and Black
people) We are “Asians!”
Most of Japanese people always reject
Korean’s racial based (skin color based) idea because Japanese people know
Koreans have a severe problem with their way of thinking which is based on
racism and hatred. So it’s impossible for Japanese people to get together with
Koreans and Chinese as “Asian” by “skin color” reason.
Japanese people are raised to look at inside
of people. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is a traditional Japanese way of raising
children. But Koreans are opposite. They emphasize only appearances so they need
to fix their faces with plastic surgery. And their parents are encouraging
their children to have plastic surgery too. Otherwise their children can’t even
get a job regardless of which University they graduated from. So once they have
their faces done with plastic surgery, they can commit cheating or do anything
because no Korean cares about minds of people.
And those who happen to have ugly faces
born in South Korea can never get ahead in their lives being constantly tormented
by all Koreans.
Most
of what Koreans do is unethical in Japanese culture. This is one of the reasons
why Japanese people can’t accept Koreans. Koreans say “Japanese are racists
looking down on us!” or “Japanese are jealous of us!” but Japanese people don’t
care about nationality or race (pedigree). They are only looking at the inside
of Korean people and drawing a conclusion “Koreans are unethical and low” Like
I said in my previous post, Korea is a single race country with a single
standard so most of Koreans are evenly like that although there are some differences
in degree of intensity by individual.
< News 1 >
Let’s see how different Japanese people are
from Chinese and Koreans.
“Tou Tiao Ri Bao”, the second largest free
daily newspaper in China locates in Hong Kong, published a very interesting
article on May 15 that caught the eyes of “Searchina”, the Japan-based web news
specialized in China and Korea, and it introduced the article on May 17 in
Japan.
The article was again about homeless people
in East Asia. Chinese writer was referring to South Korea’s homeless people
this time.
According to the Chinese writer, Korean homeless people are living
in parks, stations, and open spaces of large cities. And they are basically
chatting all day or walking around to get money from people. Once they get
money, they buy foods and alcohol beverages, and eat and drink together. When
they get drunk, they sleep at the spot. When they wake up, they are absentminded
until they get money from donors.
Then Chinese writer explains Japanese
homeless people in comparison. Despite social welfare system in Japan is
provided adequately to support the lives of homeless people, those Japanese
homeless people are refusing to get any support or help from their cities no
matter how poor they are. And there are no homeless people like Korean in Japan
who beg for money but instead they are collecting emptied cans from streets or
trash boxes to exchange them for money or working as a day laborer.
The article states the “critical difference”
between Japanese homeless people and those Chinese and Korean homeless people
is whether they live as dependents counting on donation or they live
independently all by themselves. Japanese homeless people are the latter one.
The other day, a Chinese tourist traveling
in Japan got helped by a homeless person when asking for direction. Then the
Chinese tourist tried to give money to the homeless person for appreciation. But
to her amazement, not only the homeless person adamantly refused to take the
money from her, but also in the end, he got upset and said “I didn’t mean it to
help you!” This incident seemed to trigger a hot discussion in Chinese web
community.
It would be a huge shock for Chinese and
Koreans to see homeless people refuse to take money from people.
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See? I told you only Japanese were different
from Chinese and Koreans.
Chinese writer was comparing Chinese Korean
and Japanese, and found similarity between Chinese and Koreans but got shocked
to find only Japanese were different.
I oftentimes say that Chinese and Koreans
can’t understand Japanese people because everything is polar opposite.
Let me explain why the Japanese homeless man
didn’t take the money from the Chinese tourist.
In Japanese common sense, it is considered
low to help people with “Shita gokoro”.
“Sita gokoro” in English means “Ulterior motive (disguised
motive)”
Like a begger helping people as a Good Samaritan but his actually intention
is to get money as a hypocrite. The motive is not from pure kindness but from a
tainted intention. It’s considered very low in Japan.
That’s why the homeless man got angry thinking that he was being considered
as the lowest man with a disguised motive by the Chinese tourist. It hurt his
dignity. Japanese people don’t care living poor but they just can’t put up with
living with poor minds because they have dignity.
Unlike Chinese
and Koreans, .Japanese people have philosophy. “The philosophy of the virtue”
I will show you a good example of The Philosophy of Virtue which you never
can find among any Koreans and Chinese.
< A single flower in a glass >
This true story is
well-known in Japan so I will translate it below and share that with you.
Arleigh Burke, an admiral
of the United States Navy, was known for an Anti-Japanese man calling Japanese “Yellow
monkeys” and “Japs”.
He fought against
Japanese Navy during 2nd World War. And he was a huge threat for
Japanese Navy during the fiercest Naval battle between Japan and US at Solomon Sea
Fight which resulted in more than 90 thousand death tolls from both countries.
It was right after Korean
War had begun, when Burke was assigned to Japan as a chief officer of US Navy.
When he arrived at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, a bellboy showed up and said “Please
let me carry your luggage, Sir” And Burke blasted “No! Don’t do more than what’s
necessary! And don’t even bother me!”
Burke lost many of his buddies and subordinates during the war, so he had a
deep grudge against Japanese.
It is known that he raised slogans “It’s important to kill Japanese as many
as possible!” “It is none important other than killing Japanese!” so it was
futile for hotel employees to approach Burke.
One day after about a
month passed, Burke returned to his room and found that his room was really
tasteless with only a bed, dressing table and chair. So he bought a single flower
and set it in a glass hoping it would ease his feeling.
Only he didn’t know at that time that this act would result in an unexpected
turn.
The very next day after
returning from his night shift, he found the flower was set in a beautiful vase
in his room.
Burke got upset and blasted at the front desk, “Why did you do I didn’t even
ask! Who set a flower in a vase!?” but nobody knew who did it.
Then several days later, he found an additional flower in the vase. “Sonobabitch”
As the days went by, he found more and more additional flowers dressing up
his room. Burke couldn’t take it anymore and went to the front desk and said “Go
find the one who is dressing up my room with flowers!”
This time, after thorough investigation, front desk found out who was doing
it. It turned out to be a female employee assigned to take care of his room. She was buying
flowers from her own small salary.
Burke interrogated her “Why did you do that!?” She replied “I thought you
liked flowers” Burke said “I see. Well, then I have to pay. Take it” holding
money in his hand. But she said “No, I can’t. I just wanted our customers to feel
comfortable in their rooms”
Burke couldn’t understand it and said “What the hell do you mean?”
It was a custom in US to tip for service but she adamantly refused to take
it.
After this exchange, Burke asked her about herself and found out that she
was a widow and lost her husband who was an admiral of Japanese Navy in
addition to the fact her husband was killed at Solomon sea battle. Burke said “I
might be the one who killed your husband. I am sorry”
But to his surprise, she firmly replied “You and my husband might have
fought each other but if you didn’t do anything, you would’ve been killed. It’s
nobody’s fault”
At that moment, something snapped in his head and he questioned himself “I
hate Japanese from my heart but she is servicing me as much as she can. What’s
the difference?”
Later on Burke explained the episode as follow. “I learned the mentality
and politeness of Japanese people from her. There are Japanese who can detach their
emotions and look at themselves in a fair manner. Also I learned it was impolite
to give money for kindness. To their kindness, you have to return your
kindness, not money. And I began to wonder if my hate against Japanese was
justifiable.”
It is said that the episode became an opportunity for Burke to make the way
looking at Japanese changed drastically.
Another episode Burke encountered which critically made him become
Pro-Japan was, when he heard from his subordinate that “Jinichi Kusaka” a
former admiral of Japanese Navy and a former enemy of him suffering from
poverty being as a railroad builder swinging a pickaxe. If Burke was anything
like before, he would say “Keep him starving” but Burke was no longer like him
was before. As the matter of fact, despite Kusaka was a former enemy for Burke,
he felt sorry for Kusaka being treated a horrible way by his government. So
Burke sent foods anonymously to Kusaka.
Then several days later, a small Japanese man burst into Burke’s office in
anger and yelled in Japanese “Don’t insult me! I don’t want to be helped by
anyone! Especially by American! I don’t want to have any business with
American!” and left.
It was Kusaka. And it is said that Burke had a good impression about him because
he thought if he was Kusaka, he would feel the same way.
After this incident, Burke formally invited three former Japanese admirals
that included Kusaka .for meals at Imperial Hotel. And they all showed up in
worn-out formal clothes and looked to be nervous.
As they were encouraged to drink, they started to get relaxed. And it
turned out to be that Kusaka, who burst into Burke’s office and yelled in
Japanese, was the most fluent in English.
Kusaka had an experience of being a military officer in London before.
When the atmosphere became good, Burke proposed to give cheers.
To that, Kusaka stood up and said as follow. “I want to give cheers to
generous Mr. Burke here. And I also want to give cheers to myself for not
completing my mission. Otherwise Mr. Burke would’ve been killed and we wouldn’t
be able to eat these delicious steaks today. Cheers!”
To that, Burke returned “I want to give cheers to myself too for not
completing my mission. If I completed my mission, I would have taken a life of
admiral Kusaka here. And we wouldn’t be able to eat these delicious steaks
today. Cheers!”
At first, Burke hated and loathed Japanese from his heart but after getting
interacted with Japanese people, his view toward Japanese people had totally
changed. He eventually became pro-Japan and made so much contribution for
Japan.
It was just only five years since the end of 2nd World War, when
Burke attempted to convince US government the importance of making Japan
independent soon and having Japanese Navy back to service. Despite majority of
American people were still deep in an anti-Japanese sentiment, as Burke
tenaciously kept convincing them, he finally succeeded to let Japan have Self
Defence Navy.
A little after that, Burke was promoted to a strategic director of US Navy.
And he donated 16 latest patrol aircrafts and 60 small patrol aircrafts to
Japanese self defence Navy for free.
In 1961, Burke was given the highest ranked medal from Japan for his
dedication and contribution in letting Japan have Navy back.
Burke died at the age of 96 in 1991. During his funeral, a lot of medals
and ribbons Burke acquired from many countries were displayed but one of them
was an empty case with no medal in it. The medal was the one given from Japan
and it was worn by Burke’s body in his coffin. It was his will to take only
Japan’s medal with him when he died. Even still today, at Navy Museum in
Washington, Burke’s medals and ribbons are in display but only Japan’s medal is
empty. From anti-Japanese to pro-Japan. What an amazing true story.
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Japanese philosophy of the virtues will be very difficult to understand for
anyone except native Japanese.
< Epilogue >
In 2011 on March 11, a huge Tsunami
hit northern part of Japan. At that time, US carrier Ronald Reagan happened to
be on its way to South Korea. When the captain of the carrier heard about the
news, he arbitrarily changed the carrier’s course to go help Japan. The captain’s
name was Tom Burke, the grandson of Arleigh Burke.
He was also a helicopter pilot so he let his first mate to take care of the
carrier and he flew around the disaster areas to deliver foods and medical
supplies.
That’s when he experienced something he had never experienced before
according to his testimony in a military magazine.
Tom Burke had experienced
the same missions everywhere in the world but it wasn’t an easy task because in
some countries, refugees were dangerous for rescuers because they scrambled to snatch the foods and medicines or in some countries, refugees could shoot at the rescuers
so usually he had to drop the foods and medicines from the air without landing
on the ground for their own safety. However, Japan was different he said.
First of all, in every
refuge place, there was a landing mark. When Tom Burke landed on the ground,
those Tsunami victims helped get down the foods and medical supplies from the
chopper. And those Japanese victims always said “That’s enough. Please bring the
rest of supplies to other refuge places” Tom Burke said that he never heard
such a word from refugees in any country except Japan. He reported that there
was not even one looting or murder occurred in any refuge place.
< The View of Good encounters The View of Evil >
Japan is an island secluded from continent so people
in Japan developed very unique cultures and philosophies that don’t resemble to
China and Korea at all.
Korean talent “Yun Sona”
surprised Japanese audiences when she talked about the culture shock she
experienced living in Japan on Japanese TV program.
Below is the exchange
between Japanese TV host “Sanma” and “Yun Sona”.
=Yun Sona= “In Korean
common sense, when we invite our friends, we hide all valuable things in our
house from the guests. But Japanese people don’t do that because Japanese
people don’t care for their friends”
=Sanma= “What? You mean
Japanese people look to be nonchalantly boasting their belongings to their
guests?”
=Yun Sona= “No. If my best
friends looked at the valuable things in my house, they would want to steal
them. And if they did it, it would become my fault for making them commit
stealing. Korean people are very thoughtful people so we closely watch every
move of our best friends not to commit a crime. Japanese people are opposite
and are very unthoughtful people letting their friends commit a theft.”
=Sanma= “?????”
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< Attention! >
You just heard a raw conversation between native Japanese
and native Korean. Could you understand the logic of Yun Sona? Yun Sona as a
native Korean was calling themselves very thoughtful because they watched their
best friends as criminals because in a split second, Koreans would commit a
crime if people left their eyes from their best friends. That was her point.
This logic comes from “The
View of Evil” the thought that all humans are fundamentally evil. So Korean
people know and think all Koreans are evil constantly cheating and lying and
stealing. Therefore, you never can say “There are good and bad people in any
country” about Koreans. Koreans are a single race with a single standard so
they are all evenly evil. So you have to be prepared to look at Koreans as
evil.
Japan is opposite. Japan
is based on “The View of Good” the thought that all humans are fundamentally
good”. So Japanese people think nobody is going to steal anything. Yun Sona was saying even their relatives could
steal valuable things in their houses so it was polite to hide any valuable
thing from their best friends and relatives.
So in Korean's logic, the fraud of Comfort Women story committed by Korean people is Okay but it is Japanese people's fault being cheated by Koreans.
"Japanese people trust people for no reason (from the view of good). So it's their fault" Korean people think.
Both Japan and Korea are a
single race country with a single standard so clearly Japanese and Korean
people behave in a single unified character. And both people are totally
opposite in any aspect.
I will talk more about the
hard to understand Japanese characters for Chinese Koreans and westerners in
Part 4 or later.
