Although it’s true Asians don’t have that much bad history with the Middle East, I don’t think it’s as simple as to say that all caucasians are not trusted. Though maybe Japanese diplomats will have an easier time of it in the future when it comes to negotiating in places like the Middle East then.

As soon as he made this comment, Japanese began to be distrusted….

OOps sorry for the double-quote!! Problem fixed!!

Don’t even get him started on the green eyed redheads.

I actually see what Aso is trying to say. And in a way he does have a point. The Americans do have some difficulty in the diplomatic world when it comes to the middle east mostly because of the thick disdain for its countries leaders. I think its fair to say Mrs. Rice also falls into that category.

The Japanese do have, from everything that I have seen, a good relation with middle eastern business particularly the oil companies. So I do know where Aso is going with this. He has a sense of humor that can be lost of many or at the very least he has a way of speaking that is unique.

So I don’t fault him for these comments because what he is saying has merit in a way… I just think he could have done it much much better!

It doesn’t matter what he’s saying. Diplomacy is all about the way you say it. And bless him, he doesn’t appear to have realised that or got the hang of it.

Middle Easterners trust Japan because their international pussies who are willing to let stuff like humans rights and vowing the destruction of Israel slide as long as they can get their fucking oil from Iran. It has nothing to do with the color of one’s skin or eyes, but rather it has everything to do with Japan being a large consumer of natural gas which doesn’t carry with it the baggage of trying to colonialize this part of the world (like Europe), or supporting an enemy of the region’s religion.

It’s just like the US is with the Sauds. They don’t trust us because we’re not a bunch of slant eyed gooks (like racists like Aso would have you believe), but because we buy their oil and because we’re willing to support their regime despite the fact that they cut off peoples hands, ban their people from having freedom of religion, and arrest and stone to death women who were raped (instead of doing the same to the rapists).

What really strikes me is the pass that Japanese politicians like Aso get on racism both in the Japanese media and international media alike. If a white politician suggested that the reason America is generally seen in a more positive light in Korea than the Japanese was because we weren’t a bunch of tan skinned, brown eyed, small dicked, serial rapists; they would be crucified in the media. Why is it that just because this guy is Japanese, he gets it to imply that trustworthiness is a function of physical characteristics?

Aso reminds me of Kenneth Eng in Frisco, they’re both people who judge entire races by their worst representatives at best, racist pieces of shit at worst.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/11132853/detail.html

The difference between the homes of the “blue eyed, white eyed, gaijin” and Japan is that here in the US we recognize people like Kenneth Eng and Aso as the embarrassments they are and dismiss them to the fringes of society where they belong. In Japan, they become diplomats.

End rant

In any country of the world, a politician would end in hot water for saying such a stupid thing.

But not in Japan.

masterful tlxtftrf. pure gold. I salute you.

He doesn’t look very yellow to me (I never got that) , but I actually am brown and an American to boot.
I doubt very much that Mr. Tact will do very well as a diplomat as he seems to think but it’ll be funny (then tragic then probably funny again) to watch him try.