My older sister's inlaws are Japanese and her husband was aOriginally Posted by koolking1
very good friend of mine. As a result I was exposed to their culture. Yuki, his mother, was a fine cook but I
learned to never ask what I was eating until I had tried it.
Since those days I have been around many cultures
and have been enriched by every one of them. We westerners are often arrogant and spoiled. Reality is that these
people have their own cultures, many of them thousands of years older than our own and all of them worthy of
respect. I'd get pretty pissed if somebody came in and tried to tell me to change my way of life to suit them. I'd
fight back too and it wouldn't be much prettier than what you see on the news now.
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