Re: CHAT: colours (out damn spot...;)

J Y S Czhang scripsit:

> 1/2 joking opinion: Their Shinto mythos is right, the Japanese
> _are_ half-breeds descended from space alien gods and proto-humans.
> No wonder they are so utterly strange (IMO) &, as one can see from
> their art, design, architecture, & _manga_, rather obsessed with
> sci-fi style/aesthetics while simultaneously holding onto their own
> _varying_ degrees of traditional Japanese Zen-influenced aesthetics.
> No matter how "Westernized" and PC [Politically Correct] a Japanese
> person may be - even them totally goofy Japanese Rockabilly types,
> they will always have some ethnocentric Divine Imperialism in 'em...
See _Starship and Haiku_, by Somtow Sucharitkul (aka S. P. Somtow).

> (Damn, why are we expat Chinamen always frikkin' laundrymen in hostile
> conditions/cultural environments?).
Maybe it seemed like a good idea to hide in the fog during pogroms?

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