A Blessing In Disguise

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1. The
Newsletter
·
af
the
The
Friend
~ING
UIST
Lan_gu~
Exchange
C trek
Feb
. ,1
, 1986
No.
6
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The
problem of
imm
i gratio
n i s among the
most
critical
of
contemporary
global
questions
. Few
subje
cts
encoura
ge man
to
vent
acrimo
ny and xeno­
ph
obia
so
readily.
Few
are
so
t horoughly
exploi
ted
by vote-scavenging
politicos.
Hot
heads
have taken
the matter
in
their
011D hands, L~
tuiti
vely
knowing
the
remedy to
all
ills
. They spit
at
'gast
arbeiters
'
in
West Germany, kick
'nig-nogs'
in
England
, help
themselves
to
a 'bougnoul' for
target
practicing
in
France.
Those who
wish to
see
t hrough the confusion
and humbug
reports
will
do
the
mselves
no harm by
avoiding
numbers.There
are
alternative
approac
hes
to
the
issue
.
Darwin
would bave liked
it
f three
People
emigrak
for
one or
more o.
to
reasons:
to
improve the~r
econombic c~d~~!~•
ers
ecution
. to
JOin mem
ere
o
::~:iy
!1ready
the
;e.
Bu
t wh~l:;e:
t~ec:~1
1:gr•-
·
tion
forces
out
distinct
qua_ e • self-
,
mi r ant
i s an
above-average
wdividual,
tit j
se
~ected for
risk-taking
and
creativity,
aut
o~~~~
with
a firm
belief
in
hi
mself
. As
for
the
unw
i'.:S
!
mi
gr ant
, he will
have
to
develop
such
st
rengths
:
he is
to
meet the
a wesome challenge
of
changing
one' s cul
ture
and
language
o .
This
survival
of
the
fittest
must surely
benefit
. _
t he hos
t country
. Raising
competition
at
home
is
a,
prerequisite
to
performi
_ng
well
abr~d:
Japanese
busin
essmen will
not
disagree
on this
point
~
The Asian
pro
mi
se
Asians
ca
n ri
ghtly
be called
America's
super-
immigrants.
Th
ey
consisten
tly
surpaas
white
Americans in
sc
hools
, business
, science
and
the
profession
s . De
spite
making
up
a mere 1.&j
of
the
popul
at
ion
t hey
ar
e dis
pro
portionately
represented
The-mythology of
imm
igr
atio
n at
t op un
i ver
s ities
. Besi
des
enriching
Westeni
Lies,
damn
lies
an
d s tat
is
tic
s.
Myths
prolife-
cul
ture
they co
mprise
a powe
r house
of
drive
and
rate
• .V
estern
ers
comm
only
\•iew immigrant s as
il-
am
bit
io
n ~
literate
refuse
, ab
using
we
lfare
and government Cont
ag
iou
s or
not the
;,siar. wor
k et hic
will
profit
services
and ca
using
nat
ive
uner.ip
lo
ymen
t . Concern
ed the U.S. It
is
by no·:,
lar
gely
establi.sh
ed
tha
t the
--
4--l'+c' .c-5--
ci~~ough
t""
of
•'WB.Ve
art'"e"'r
.-
---c:
c"=
e=ntre
or
woria growt
h-and influence
fiis
- ~
wave of Mexican tllegals.
So l'luch nonsense.
There
from the
North
: lanti
c to
the
Pacific.
Japan,
. Sout
were 800,000
legal
immigrants
to
the
U .s
in
1980 - Korea and
other
newly
industrial
ised
countries
are
the
most recent
high
-yet
at
the
turn
of
the
forging
ahead.
China
is
to
make a momentous
-if
century
and foi
six
years,
immigration
·t opped t ~e lon
g overdue
-appearance
on the
world
stage.
Is
it
milli"On mark. In
the
same co
untry
illegals
ce
rtainly
entirely
naive
t o suggest
t hat
America's
Asians
wi
number less
than
5 mil
lions
and stu
dy afte
r st
udy inevitably
be
called
upon to
foster
relat
ions
and
shows that
they
do
not
Me
welfare
services,
for
ea
se
out
tensions
on acc
ount
of
t heir
unique
fear
of
being
caught.
Migr
ant
s genera
lly
arrive
in
cre
dentials?
their
20s or
30s, whil
e physically
and me
ntally
vigorous,
fill
out
areas
of
lab
or-s
horta
ge and -
since
the
number of
j obs
is
not
fixed
-create
jobs
as
well
as
take
them
. I f there
were no evidence
of
yery
positive
contributions
shoul
d we
find
a thinker
such
as
Galbraith
cel
ebrating
migration
as
a practice
that
helps
thos
e who
go,
thos
e left
behind
and the
places
they
go tot
Social
disturbance
and conflict
ha
ve
usually
accompanied mass mov~ments of
population
. Yet few
realize
how quic
kly
acculturation
occurs.
The
extrava
ganza
of
violence
that
is
raging
through
out
the
Western world
i s delaying
this
process,
sin
ce
i t is
natural
for
minorities
to
re
-affirm
thei
r
identity
when
thre
atened
.
On
ce upon a ti
me a king
invited
some villagers
to
a feast,
then
grew angry
whe
n all
they
br
ought as
a gift
wa
s a bunch ·or
banana
s.
!l
e th
rew them away
wi1hout unpeeling
the
m and never
found out
that
,
inside,
ea
ch was sol
id
gold
. Ame
rica,
of
all
c ountries
, ought to
know that
the
re
often
is
more
than
me
ets
the
ey
e -and not
just
with
bananas
.

2. VALENTINE)S DAY:
A rn
er-
·, c.
Q"'
5 ·1
'"'c..
er
i t 7 vs.
JQpOlt",eSe. Folly
11.y~~ht:T,L,.,,..I
I have
just
experienced
my
first
Japa
nes
e
Valentine's
Day.
I hope
with
all
my he
ar
t th
at
I
never
have
the
misfort"!Jne
of
going
t hrou
gh it
again.
What I had
hoped
would
be
a da
y of
lov
e <1nd
sweet frienr\liness
turned
out
to
b e a C"a
p·u1
ese
"Love-Chocolate
Day",
and
ended
up
leaving
a ba,l
taste
in
my
mouth.
In
the
immortal
words of
a friend
( sorry
, J
forgot
who
it
was or
surely
I woul
d cre
di t him),
11
·;:hatever
holiday
the
nmericans
come up wit
h,
the
Japanese
just
rape
it.
" In
America,
Vl\
le!lt
ine's
Ihy
is
a day
when boys
and girl
s try
t o e xpress
their
feelings
for
ea
ch
other,
wh
en
m<>n
ar.d wome
n
and
husbands
and
wives
express
their
lo
ve for
each
other
in
special
ways, and
when fri
en
,is
tel
1 each
other
how happy
they
are
to
have
each
ether.
I n
Japan,
th;i.s sincere
holiday
has
been
degraded
to
a
variety
of
purposes
ran
ging
from just
selli
n£
chocolate
to
giving
the
female
a role
in
the
Ma
le
­
dominated
dating
process
to
boys
and :_:
irl
s :il ayi
ne;
practical
jokes
and
making
fools
·of
eac
h other;
the
Japanese
hav~
again
made a folly
of
an
orig­
inally
sweet,
sincere
holiday.
Valentine's
Day was introduced
t o Jap;i.n ir.
the
early
1970 ' s by
the
~lorinaga
candy
company to
boost
sales.
Judgi
ng
by
the
am
ount
of
chocolate
that
change
d hands
by
way of
our
message
- boxe s
alone,
I would
say
they
have
been
very
successful
i;Q,__
this
e~ea~.
· Valenti
ntt!.@~
X gives
Ja~ese
girl
s t he chance
t o te
l l the
boy
o f her
fan
cy
that
she
is
intereste
d;
:-
.e can
respo
nd0r. Nhite
Ja
y ,
!'.arch
14,
if
he
is
r.1utually
interestP.d.
This
is
rare
in
a male-dominatedsoc
ie
ty
c;uch
a s that
;vhich
unfortunately
exists
in
Jap;.n.
• ,Vhat I -sorely
r.1issed this
year
was the
friendly
sweetness
which
is
freely
expre
ss,;d
on
this
day
in
America.
The
,Tapanese
ha
ve replaced
this
with
a dual
mental
ity
of
givi
ng t c express
tl'."._:
€ love
and
giving
in
return
for
having
received;
acknowledeing
friendship
is
r.ot
part
of
,Japanese
Valentine's
Day.
The
.antics
of
3 of
the
4 women
's
dorms
were
especially
depressin
g . Two
donns
assigned
to
their
members names of
men's
dorm residents
to
whom
the
youn
g women
wrote
fake
Valentine
meiosages. A third
broke
into
the
men
's
dorms in
the
middle
of
the
ni
ght
and
secretly
pulled
trick;;
like
put
ting
ket
chup
on
doorknobs
and
newspaper
over
door\•:ays,
soaping
windows, and
the
like.
I'm
sorry,
gi
rls
,
but
this
kind
of
garbage
is
a far
cry
from what
Valenti
ne's
Day is
about!
Of
course
there
are
exceptions,
but
they
wer-
·
few and
far
hetween.
The Aerobics
Club's
Valen­
tine-gram
service
was a breath
of
sweet
a i r in
t h e
smog of
love-laden/thou
~htle
ss-r
etu
rn-r,ift
choco
­
la
te.
A few
friends
made nice
~e,;
tures,
but
by
f::lr
the
most
beautiful
gift
I received
was a single
small'
wild
flower
placed
i n my
riessage
box
anon­
ymously.
That
flower,
the
epitome
of
si
11cerjty
,
is
the
most
wonderful
Valen
tin
e I have
ever
rec
­
eive
d.
To whomever gave
me
that
fl
o"ler,
than~
you
very,
very
much.
Yo·
, re
all
y made 'nY
,lay
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