Digital BW, The Print

Keith,
You obviously don't know anyone who was a POW in the hands (and 
feet) of the JAPS during the last war. 
You clearly don't know how the female sex is still treated in Japan 
to this day. 
Know I see someone from France, remember the country that endorsed 
the brutal rule of Saddam in Iraq, telling the rest of the world how 
to behave. Racial intolerance is largly bought about by the Groups 
themselves and their behavour.
True this is a International Group who communicates in the common 
language of English and we should try to keep to the Digital Black 
and White print, but there has been many other off topic threads 
that only die when the likes of you and I don't respond to them any 
more.

Sierra Gold

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. 
Image Service" <editor@p...> wrote:
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> Andy Biggs wrote:
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> >Steve-
> >
> >You are reading my email incorrectly. I should have been clearer. 
I am
> >saying that Rick is from Japanese decent, and I was pointing out 
that *he*
> >was offended. As so was I.
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> Not only were you, I was as well...  I was actually speechless.
> 
> In fact, as an American of VERY mixed heritage,  I was appalled 
and 
> still remain so at the lack of awareness by some here of the 
pejorative 
> history the term carries with it..  As Rick notes, it was used as 
a 
> racial insult at a time when America was taking people from their 
homes 
> and livelihoods, putting her own citizens in concentration camps 
> (internment camps), taking away land and property that was NEVER 
> returned, and only because their land of origin happened to be 
Japan. 
>  Even the US Supreme Court (in the Korematsu case) said that 
Japanese 
> Americans were so different as to merit differential treatment of 
this 
> kind..  (After the war they reversed themselves, and the US has 
paid 
> some few elderly survivors of the camps reparations of a sort.) 
Germans 
> and Italians were not similarly treated, but many here would 
certainly 
> be sensitive to emotionally laden terms being used to describe 
people of 
> those ethnicities..
> 
> As for friends, I have never accepted friends from Japan using the 
term 
> "Gaijin" either, as it has much of the same emotional burden..
> 
> Please don't use that term again..
> Keith
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> "Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON 
printer 
> User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
> Publications), at:
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSONx7x_Printers/
>  
> "For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks 
together 
> guys"
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