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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (57280)	4/2/2006 12:24:50 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Respond to of 110194

Quote of the day ""The students protesting in Paris should go visit Tokyo and rethink their future in world that await them.""

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (57280)	4/2/2006 1:02:07 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Tokyo did renew my faith that it is possible to pack people together like sardines in a somewhat harmonious manner. How many mexicans and blacks where doing a million man march in Tokyo? Didn't think so. Did they have a gay rights parade down main street? Japan has a BORG culture - not a melting pot like here in the states no? One race, one culture, one history - didn't hitler say something like that? May be it is because of their culture but people are very courteous and co exist admirably. I am certain that is a HUGE part of it - how often did you hear the rapper "50 cents" singing about raping a ho and popping a cap in his bro? It was all over the malls in Mexico. Funny to see the nice little mexican catholic school girls in thier formal school clothes dancing to 50 cents rapping about murder and rape. Tokyo is without a doubt the cleanest city that I have ever seen of any size. Have you ever been to salt lake city, Utah - near the temple - that is currently my record holder. Similar to what you observed in China, the work ethics in Japan is "scary". You can see their attitude at all levels, from simple waiters to all the "salary men". It would be much easier for us to compete against them if only they will be more European. I totally agree with this assessment and tried to argue that point with Regli Message 22312829 Grace said perhaps this generation of global peoples can not make changes to thier underlying habits - we need a whole new generation of people for the change everyone is calling for. The students protesting in Paris should go visit Tokyo and rethink their future in world that await them. If only we could send them all there for a month - it would give them a new perspective. Then perhaps they could alter certain fundamental beliefs and what they feel they are "entitled" too - but looks like we are gonna have to do it the "hard" way. Pull up a chair and enjoy the show - hehe.

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (57280)	4/2/2006 5:39:26 PM
From: kikogrey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Ramsey Just read your post re: Tokyo to my son and he agreed with everything you said. He and my husband just got back from Tokyo yesterday. They just decided to go there for vacation on a whim (planned trip 4 days before leaving). While they were there we had some huge immigration demonstrations here (So. California) including people demonstrating on lanes of the freeway (could you imagine how fast war protesters would find themselves in the slammer if they blocked traffic on the freeways?) They too were in awe of the cleanliness, lack of crime, efficiency and work ethic. They were amused by the white-gloved "pushers" that shoved or stuffed people on to full trains. Also couldn't believe the women who turned the chairs around on the bullet train at the end of the run--my son described their frentic movements as if they were on a game show. But the thing that impressed my 19 y.o. son the most was "the highest concentration of beautiful women I have ever seen in my life."