Back Home After 42 Years

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

[Greji]

[Buraku]

42 years, wow ! He must be going through some reverse culture shock - talk about time travel !!

He missed tricky dicky Nixon, he missed the Jim Crow laws, the murder of Martin Luther King, missed that Quiet Revolution took place in Quebec increasing the tensions between Québécois nationalists and English Canada. He missed the Mexican and Cuban illegals flooding into the USA, abortion getting legalised in Britain, he missed all those Duck and Cover adverts duing the Coldwar, he missed Jimmy Carter fucking up in Iran and Reagan kissing up to hijackers giving them anti-tank weapons and sending the ayatollah's spare parts for the F-14s, he missed The Sex Pistols, he wouldn't have heard much on the reunification East and West Germany and he missed Clinton's trills with Monica, the OJ and waco-jacko cases and he missed GW putting a big hole in Afghanistan and making a mess of Katrina.

[Buraku]

Tokyo has always been a kind of modern multicultural place and the working and Livin' on one of those US army bases or embassies for some decades ain't so alien, in fact you'll get your CNN/Foxnews on the TV, you'll get your American beer and American newspapers.


The are a lot of little areas in Japan that are still kind of cut off and isolated from the world. It's only if you were stuck out in some unpopulated island like those little diny villages they have like in the southern area of Shikoku or stuck up in Hokkaido - then would you really feel like a Rip Van Winkle who had stepped into a TimeMachine. Point in case where Debito lives in Hokkaido, they still have those Jim Crow laws where you can put a big 'NO GAIJIN' sign on your door.

[Greji]

working and Livin' on one of those US army bases or embassies for some decades ain't so alien, in fact you'll get your CNN/Foxnews on the TV, you'll get your American beer and American newspapers.

I wasn't aware that because I get CNN/Foxnews on the TV and American beer, I was related to the non-alien base.

That was true years ago Buraku, but not now. You can get more foreign (non-Japanese) items to include US newspapers downtown than you can on the bases. About the only newspaper the bases will sport, is the Stars and Stipes and that is not your basic gaijin rag, unless you're military.

The only advantage of base living these days is proximity to your work (in most cases) and a western styled house and neighbors for living conditions. Everything else that they have is also available (off-base)downtown.

[Behan]

Buraku, your post was really funny. You chose a wide assortment of things he missed.

[t3hWIT]

Buraku, your post was really funny. You chose a wide assortment of things he missed.

It's sad though, I live in the US and I still don't know a third of what mentioned.