[sumo] asashoryu and soccer - everyone is a loser

[Patrick Bal]

 On Behalf Of Rick Plinz:
 
> It continues to baffle me why 
> the "apologists" that inhabit this list continue to insist 
> that these events that plague Sumo can be excused with a wave 
> of the hand and the insistence that it's OK because it's just 
> a "cultural difference".  Apologists for bigots are no more 
> acceptable than the bigots themselves.  Since the majority of 
> the "apologists" seem to be somehow financially associated 
> with the sport of Sumo, it makes it even more objectionable to me.
> This Asashoryu issue is a serious exposition of the deep 
> seated hostility to foreigners in the culture of Sumo, and it 
> needs to be dealt with the same way bigots in every society 
> are exposed and eliminated.  And until Japanese society 
> understand the destructive nature to their own society of 
> these sentiments, they will continue to embrace them.

 I am not an apologist nor financially associated with the Nihon Sumo
Kyokai,
but I feel they were within their rights  to give this punishment to Shoryu.
All his accomplishments will mean nothing to most Japanese if he disregards
and 
embarrass the culture that let him become a Dai Yokozuna. This IS "JAPAN",
not any
other society. You should accept the Japanese culture and society with all
their problems, you don't have to like them, but in the end, it is their
choice.

To make a difference in trying to change them, come to Japan and try to have
the Japanese society embrace YOUR "superior culture". Best of luck
 

 
> And don't get me started on the burakamin.

I think you meant to write "burakUmin"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin
 
Or was it "American Indians"?

Chiyonotora