lol papa ryu is batshit insane…1 loss and he turned into rocky’s trainer “ya a bum machida…your trash…ya’ll neva make it!”
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Interesting. But when you say “ethnocentric”, do you mean xenophobic?
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I think alot of people are sleeping on Machida due to him coming back from a loss, but I just couldn’t imagine him not winning tomorrow. Rampage is going to have to really bring it to win, and I haven’t seen a hungry Page since he fought Liddell.
Davis has a sick lat spread.
Rampage looks pretty soft.
I’m kinda worried about my Gerald Harris pick. The guy has alot of TKO’s and KO’s… although hes only fought in Brazil. Just hope Gerald doesnt get peaced out with a random "Falcao"n PAAAUNCH.
gooo BJ
link?
i’m not really sure what your point is. but illegal immigrants coming here and having 4 kids would be great for programs/systems like social security once they get into the work force.
Machida via UD rd3
Pen via UD rd3
Harris via UD rd 3
Boetsch via tko rd1
sotiropoulos via sub rd2
brown via ud rd3
munoz via ud rd3
id fuck her
No, Xenophobia is the fear of outsiders. The Japanese (in general) think they and their culture are the best, and everyone else is stupid barbarians. The end result is a generally closed-off society that looks down on any other race/culture/person that isn’t Japanese - which is why the Brazilian immigration push failed.
The Brazilian immigrants were ethnically Japanese (they had emigrated in the early 1900’s) and they spoke Japanese perfectly well, however they were no longer culturally nor socially Japanese after spending 3 generations in Brazil. The result was that they were (and still are) not considered true Japanese. Instead they are still outsiders (“soto” for those familiar with the concept,) exist in a more insular/separate community, and are discriminated against.
If you’ve had contact with Eastern Europeans immigrants in America today, you may understand what I mean - they’re white, but have a different social structure, traditions, and/or religion so they don’t quite “fit in” with “normal” 3rd-5th generation white Western-European descendants. Over time this might change, as each group (Repatriated Japanese-Brazilians in Japan, Eastern Europeans in America) are only barely into a second generation so cultural assimilation hasn’t had time to occur.
Assuming their kids keep having kids at the same rate, otherwise you’re just delaying the problem for one more generation.
After WWII the whole world experienced a population increase (the Baby Boom) but all those boomers are old now and their kids didn’t have enough kids of their own to keep the Ponzi scheme going. (that’s really what it is)
Of course, the idea of bringing immigrants to work and support the old white people in their old age certainly rubs certain people wrong. Conversely, the higher birthrate of the immigrants means that, ethnically, countries won’t be the same anymore. Your “typical” German - ethnically white - is very close to being the minority soon, in London the #1 name for newborn babies is Muhammad, and in the US whites will be a minority within about 50 years (the largest minority, but no longer over 50% of the population) Is Germany still Germany if the ethnic group that was associated with it is now the minority? Would Japan still be Japan if there were more whites than Asians?
The intellectuals figured this out in the 70’s/80’s, which is why they thought we’d be having race-wars across the globe by now.
it was posted here a while back…from mmascraps. use their search engine and it’ll probably pop up.
Picks in bold…looking forward to this card!
I wouldn’t say the Japanese as a whole consider their culture as the best. At most, they would consider their culture best for themselves. Even that’s a stretch IMO. I would also say that their is a difference between xenophobia and ethnocentricim, but the Jfolk just happen to be both. The xenophobia doesn’t come off like it does in the west so it’s easy to overlook, but it is clearly there.
Also the “brazillian immigration project” failed for a bunch of reasons. The Japananese weren’t really willing to accept them, but their weren’t really any Brazillians trying to assimillate at all. they segregated themselves. Not to mention that Brazillians tend to be “passionate” about things, and it can come off as rude, arrogant, scary or dangerous in this country. Speaking as a guy who has attended an all Brazilian jiu jitsu academy in Japan and an all Japanese Brazillian jiu jitsu academy in Japan I can tell you that the tension between the two society is pretty intense. Especially coming from the Japanese side. The kind of events I go to kind of bring it to the forefront.
Everything from a research standpoint is a generalization. That being said, xenophobia is a fear of outsiders, whereas ethnocentrism is, at it’s simplest form, a negative judgment of other cultures because of their difference to your own. My comment about the thought of being “the best” may not have been… the best, however history - particularly the closure of the country to foreigners for hundreds of years along with the slowness in adopting western technologies prior to the Meiji restoration - substantiates it.
I’ve never had any contact with any of the “Brazilian” Japanese, so you have more experience in that matter. However the “they don’t try to assimilate” argument is questionable, as they’re only into a second generation. Pick any culture that emigrated to the US in the 1800s- French, Scandinavian, German, Italian, etc. They didn’t just come and learn English in a few years and everyone was instantly OK with eachother, there were newspapers and churches (and entire towns/communities) that were a particular language. There were hundreds (thousands, in the case of German) of newspapers in various different languages. Don’t be fooled by the America you see today, it took 4 generations over 100 years for the culture to be this homogeneous.
The Brazilians had the benefit of being the same ethnicity AND (this is going by research) still mostly fluent in Japanese, which is a step ahead of any ethnic group that came to America. That the Japanese continue to maintain their strict ideas of face and propriety is the key to the problem - Even though you couldn’t tell any difference physically, nor by language, these folks are discriminated against because they don’t think and behave like a Japanese person. The pattern holds true when you listen to the stories and accounts of American-born students of Japanese ancestry that travel to Japan, they are often (not always, but often enough for the generalization) treated as dumb, lower-class, and with disrespect.
The caveat here is that I’m talking specifically about Japanese-ethnicity Brazilian immigrants. As far as I’m aware there is another (smaller) group of native South-American/Spanish decent immigrants that followed, and there is very little mention of their situation. However, I want to note that 98.5% of Japan is ethnically Japanese, with Korean at 0.5% and Chinese at 0.4%, so even regionally there is remarkably little immigration - and those groups are notoriously discriminated against as well. I have to blame the Japanese for this, the pattern is there.
Sorry, I went on too long. My focus is Intercultural Communication and East Asian History, and it shows. :looney:
Machida- split decision by effective dodging and counter strikes.
Penn- submission.
YOU THINK PENN IS GOING TO SUBMIT HUGHES? HAHAHAHA
I got Machida decision as well but I think Matt Hughes is going to wear penn out. Penn cant hack a 3 round fight at 170 lbs.
Im looking for my ninja sotiroploloususususus to get another win tomorrow, that dude is on the come up. Fucked Joe Daddy UP a while back.
i come from a town…honestly its big enough for a city that has top 5 or 10 most populated ares with brazi’s. I can co-sign the brazi’s segrate themselves from others. Even in america, they’ve found a way to do this in my town, made downtown lil brazil and in a way cut themselves off from other americans. Its funny though…white people are mad salty and say their all illegal…racist white people always get me laughin.
The definitly consider themselves the best out of any asian culture, that’s for sure.
You’ll get no argument from me on whether or not the segregation occurs, it’s just why it happens that there is a lot of discussion. Some say it’s a natural response to gravitate towards others of your own culture for mutual support. Some say it’s a defense mechanism, some say it’s because they don’t want to assimilate and want to maintain their own culture. I think it’s probably more for support/group belonging rather than deliberate anti-assimilation (though I think there are groups that are anti-assimilation, not naming names ‘cause we’re already fairly off-topic and I don’t want to get too off-track) Plus there is a group do-gooders that want people to "save’ and be “proud” of their cultures and urges resistance to assimilation - I’m not of that group.
Take a look at the places where immigrants have historically first landed, there is usually a large concentration of segregated communities (Italians and others in New York, Irish in Boston, Latino along the southern border, Japanese in California). These big communities still exist today, but smaller concentrations that may have existed during expansion into the midwest don’t exist as segregated communities anymore. So we see that the grouping was/is probably a natural phenomenon, that once the group gets large enough it becomes self-sustaining, but that smaller groups with more exposure to others over time become assimilated into the general culture of a region.
I’m not trying to defend the Brazilians, it could be very well that they are highly resistant to assimilation, but the “Not trying to assimilate” argument is something I hear about every recently established immigrant population - Somali, Hmong, Eastern European, Arabic, etc. For some it’s kinda valid - particularly in targeted “benevolent” immigration programs from churches and or government. One of the older programs in the midwest is about 40 years old and starting into a 3rd generation and that culture is still very insular, but for other more recent populations it’s way too early to make that call (though they may very well prove to be resistant to assimilation as well, it’s just too early to make that assumption)
My only suggestion is to make English the national language to add impetus to assimilation. Language is one of the primary reasons for this segregation, and the lack of English fluency I often see in 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants is troublesome - it means these communities are (for whatever reason) too insular, forcing English rather than supporting these languages via Government translations is a tough solution, but seems to be the only way to assure some sort of cohesion across the nation.