Credit where credit is due...I wrote an angry post about Debitou Arudo (ex David Arnold) after his letter about Darkie`s Mob in the Megazine. I thought it was silly to get upset about Darkie`s Mob being inaccurate in its` portrayal of the Japanese in Burma during the war.
Today, I found an interesting article by him in the Japan Times about racist DNA testing. The Japanese police are going to spend 1.6 million USD developing a test for foreignness. The underlying assumption behind this test is that Japanese DNA is (a)pure, uncontaminated by foreign DNA and (b)that foreign crime is a big problem in Japan. Both assumptions are wrong, and Arudo worries that since practically everyone in Japan has bits of Korean, South American, Chinese, Ainu and whatnot in their DNA, the tests will be used to blame unsolved crimes on foreigners.
Anyay, I thought the article was interesting, so here`s the link.
Furoido Kerumodoh (your name Japanised free!)
Link: Debitou Arudo`s article
Bloody hell that must be frightening for you Floyd?
Thats goddarn crazy, ibeleive it was thoughts like this that led to WW2(may be wrong not actually a history buff), u know Master Races, all others inferior and only fit as a servants to the pure bloods. Scary that people still think like that...
CU Krestel
their are good and bad everywhere, nations are just lines on a map..before the egyptians their were no nation states
Seen Lost In Translation yet?
Ouch. Scary.
Off topic (sorry) - Is Lost in Translation worth seeing? I may go tonight.
I think its brilliant, very funny in places and very touching. It's partially about people feeling lost in life because they're jetlagged and in a foreign setting out of touch with everything they know, so I'm kind of curious as to how it works for someone who doesn?t find the setting foreign.
I saw Lost in Translation this weekend. I came out feeling unusually happy. It's a good film.
Its called "Profiling" here in the States. For example, Four black teenagers in an expensive car. Hence the car is stolen and the four black youths must have criminal backgrounds.
Profiling is under fire, which how can I blame those who are angry about it. Its sad and wrong.
Will
Asides from being gloriously vile splatterfests one of the things that distinguishes Takashi Miike films is a lot of them seem to feature ethnic communities and their relationship (usually slightly dodgy) with mainstream Japanese society. Other film makers seem to present it as a more ethnically homogenous place.
(Of course, the Japanese films *I* end up watching are generally action/horror, so I probably have a completely skewed view)
the article is more depressing than frightening, since I`m not planning on sticking around long enough to be racially profiled. I wonder how their tests would diagnose my son (half australian/half Japanese)?
also it`s annoying because that`s my tax money they`re spending on this rubbish
The racism here is much deeper than in Aus.
Must see some Takashi Miike films some time