2011年7月20日水曜日

そっくり 他

「公用語」は英語…国内初のホテル、長崎に開業
従業員70人のうち4割は、中国、韓国、スペインなど海外12か国の出身者。他の日本人スタッフも留学経験などがあり、20か国語以上に対応できる。外国語が苦手な宿泊客には、日本語でも対応する。

 北九州市小倉南区から夫婦で訪れた島偉信
ひでのぶ
さん(74)は「聞き慣れない言葉が飛び交い、外国の雰囲気を味わえるのが新鮮。日本語も通じるので安心して旅行を楽しめる」と笑顔を見せた。
(2011年7月19日15時05分 読売新聞)


これはこれで、いいが、しかし、日本では、欧米人に対する会話で、原則、日本語で対応してもいいのだ、日本語を貫徹してもいいのだ、という公衆教育もしっかりすべきである。

また、そうしないと、従来の欧米人風外見の固定観念に該当する日本人、あるいは、日本語が流暢な欧米人、帰化人に日本語で話さない、という失礼を犯してしまうことにもなる。



「秋以降もやるつもりか」に首相、険しい表情


 2011年度第2次補正予算案の基本的質疑が行われた19日の衆院予算委員会で、自民党は東日本大震災の復旧・復興策が遅れているとして、菅首相らを厳しく追及した。



こうした政策運用面での批判はいい。なぜそれができなかったのか。足のひっぱりあい、や優先順位の低いことで時間の浪費をするのはメディアも議員ももうやめていただきたい。



ソウル高層ビル激しい揺れ、2千人避難の原因


 【ソウル=門間順平】ソウル市内の39階建てオフィスビルで今月5日、入居者約2000人が避難する騒ぎとなった激しい揺れの原因は、フィットネスクラブでの運動だったとみられることが19日、ビル管理会社の実験でわかった。


 クラブは12階にあり、実験では揺れが起きた当時と同じテコンドーの動きを取り入れた運動を約20人で行った。その結果、38階に設置した振動計測器の値が平常時の10倍を記録したという。

(2011年7月19日20時36分 読売新聞)



・・・・・やっぱ、テコンドーってすごいんだなあ。



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London's top 2 police resign in 'News of the World' hacking scandal
Published: Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:12 AM Updated: Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:36 AM

Associated Press
London's Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has resigned.
LONDON -- Britain's spreading phone hacking and police bribery scandal forced two of London's top police officers to resign in less than 24 hours and prompted Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday to call for an emergency session of parliament.



この影響はひろがりそうですな。

ちょっとたまっていたのを展開すると、

ガーディアン


MPs misled over impact of welfare changes on homelessness
Liam Byrne insists leaked letter from Eric Pickles office shows ministers 'haven't been straight with the House of Commons'

Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3


Ministers have been accused of repeatedly misleading MPs about the impact of their £26,000 cap on welfare payments after it emerged that Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, secretly warned the plan would cost more money than it saved and increase homelessness by 20,000.


福祉の上限を定めた場合のホームレスに対する影響について大臣による情報操作、と。イギリス。

あと、ロシアトゥデイから拾ってみようか。

Obama lies about dying mother, book claims
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Published: 15 July, 2011


Much of America has come to terms with President Obama being not the most truthful guy at times. He campaigned on ending US wars and has only started new ones. He vowed to close Gitmo yet the infamous prison is still in operation.
But will you get a load of this one? One author is saying that the president lied ? get this ? about his mother. The gull!
In a new biography of President Obama’s mother, former New York Times reporter Janny Scott writes that Barack was fibbing about a make-believe ordeal his mom went through while fighting cancer.
Back on the campaign trail, Obama often alluded to the problems with American health care. The then-Senator would regularly make references to his mom’s own struggles with insurance companies and would speak out about her dying days marred by health care woes.
"I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," said Obama in one September 2007 speech.
"She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn't have to reimburse her for her medical bills," he said another time months later.
In Scott’s new book, however, she reports that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was actually insured the whole time.

オバマ大統領は母ちゃんが健康保険で苦労していた、などいっていたが、ちゃんと、健康保険でカバーされていた、と。



それは、それとして、つくづく、ロシアトゥデイは、CNNやNYTの海外報道にそっくりの視点、固定観念の繰り返しをアメリカにむけているなああ、と思う。




US government is like “Alice in Wonderland” - expert
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Published: 01 July, 2011,

The US Civil Liberties Union is debating with the Department of State over the release of classified documents on the US war on terror. But as Alison Weir, president of the Council for the National Interest told, RT, it is absurd to keep them classified.
The diplomatic cables that were declassified in the US expose Washington's methods of abduction, interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists. The ACLU is demanding they are made public for an official investigation, despite the fact the documents have already been published by the online whistleblower Wikileaks.

“The cables have now been published in the New York Times and many other newspapers across the US and the rest of the world. They should not have been classified in the first place ? they have nothing to do with national security issues, they were just classified because they are violating US laws and because they would be very embarrassing to the US government,” stated Weir.


政府が公開を拒むマル秘文書について、



She doubts, however, if these revelations can influence America's methods of tackling terrorism.

“The main reason it is so important for the cables to become officially public is because they reveal a certain Alice-in-Wonderland nature of the government, in which up is down and back is forward and black is white; the absurdity of what’s going on in Washington,” concluded Weir.




アメリカ政府はアリスの不思議の国のアリス。上が下で、後ろが前で、黒が白と。
まさに、オオニシが日本にむけて書くような文章ですな。





Sex. Drugs. Cheating. Lies. Tabloids USA.
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Published: 16 July, 2011

“Let’s not forget ? he owns The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily,” said Musto, to name a few.
At a protest outside Rupert Murdoch’s Big Apple pad, protesters demanded an investigation into his publications at home.
“We don’t know if newspapers are hacking other people in this country yet, but I see no reason to put it past them,” said demonstrator Harry Wasbren.
So how far from potential public embarrassment do American newspapers stand?
“The ones that are owned by Rupert Murdoch ? without question. The New York Post is one of the most hideous, deceitful tools of criminals that there could be,” said musician and journalist Will Gallison





No publication would admit to paying for information, but that’s also often a technicality.
“What a lot of news publications can get away with doing is they won’t explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview, someone might set up a charitable organization and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that charitable organization,” explained Lilit Marcus.
The culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line.
“The Anglo-American style is trashy, it’s rye-balled, with this snickering tone that is very American. We are a juvenile society, we are a young society. I don’t really know what the Brits’ excuse is ? they’ve been around a long time. Hey, we blame it on them, because we are their children,” said Rall.



アメリカのタブロイド紙もひどいですよ、と。センセーショナリズムでジャーナリズムが危険にさらされている、と。アングロアメリカスタイルは、屑同然、(rye-balled って何?)イギリスのせいにしてやろう、おれらはやつらの子孫である、と。
もちろん、これはそういって自己批判しているわけですね。

こうした自己批判をするから偉いのですが、なぜか、NYTやCNNも、こうした自己批判する日本人ばかり引用したりするところが、RTとそっくりなわけです。




Americans remain calm to crisis as Spaniards revolt
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Published: 14 July, 2011

Spaniards are outraged and many of them blame pressure from the States as the reasoning behind their own war. Why is Spain resorting to violence and Americans remain mostly silent, though?
“The short answer is US corporate media is lousy,” says David Swanson, campaigner for Roots Action. According to him, there isn’t a single entity in corporate media that isn’t making money off of the war machine.
“Twenty-five percent of Americans think the US should spend three times the next competing nation,” remarks Swanson on the US military budget. In reality, though, America spends seven times that of China.
“Nobody wants it!” says Swanson.
Americans remain largely ignorant of the connection between the economy and the cost of war, and Swanson says that is because you never hear about it on the radio or on the TV

スペインでは財政削減と軍事費に割合について怒っているのに、アメリカ人はこの点おとなしいですなああ、これいかに、と。
それはメディアにだまされているのだ、と。



Mainstream media won't report on CIA's secret sites
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Published: 15 July, 2011,

As the CIA expands covert missions, it’s no surprise than many of their operations go unreported. Jeremy Scahill of The Nation says, though, that many outlets are aware of some injustice carried out by the CIA and are just failing to report them.
“Both CNN and ABC have allowed their media outlets to be used as conveyor belt for the spin of the CIA,”
Scahill says to RT. He claims that he has stumbled upon secretive CIA sites in the African country of Somalia, and that US officials are operating a prison and paying the salaries of Somali national security agents yet no one else will admit to it.

CIAはソマリアで秘密作戦をしているのに、主流のメディアはCIAの手先になって、目をつむっている、と。





Julie Bass of Oak Park Michigan May God to Jail For Organic Garden
by Huffington Post
Sunday Jul 10th, 2011 1:06 PM

Years ago Grosse Pointe Michigan banned organic gardens. Now once
again a Michigan city administration harms the environment and
represses citizen rights.
http://huffingtonpost.com

Julie Bass, of Oak Park, Michigan, wanted to grow her own food. She was a fan of organic vegetables, so she decided to convert her front yard from the grass-and-tree landscaping typical in her neighborhood into an edible garden. Because she had just torn up the front lawn to install a new sewer system, she had a perfect opportunity to start fresh. She planted cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs in raised wooden planters, and waited to reep her produce.

A neighbor didn't like her choice of landscaping.

The neighbor called the city and complained that Bass's yard disrupted the look of the neighborhood. The city agreed, and issued Bass a ticket.

Bass was offended. Organic produce is expensive. If she wants to grow her own, she reasoned, why shouldn't she be allowed to? She refused to change her yard. The city insisted; she lawyered up.

Now, with neither party being willing to back down, the case is likely to go to a jury trial. If Bass loses, she faces up to 93 days in jail. All for following the example of the White House! Has news of Michelle Obama not yet made it to Michigan?

家庭菜園で有機農業をやったら、近所からクレームがきて市が制裁した、と。
「ああ、なんてアメリカは窮屈な社会なんでしょう」という印象操作か?

2011年7月12日火曜日

蹴り 他

ネタはたまっているのだが、まあ、3つだけ。
FG
Tokyo Subway Fight

[HD] Don't touch me! 触らないで! (Tokyo Subway Fight)


ケリをいれて、殴っている。暴力をふるった側が絶対に悪い。

ただ、これ、ここに至った状況がわかりにくい。その前の状況がわからないが、動画では、
外国人3人が車内でビールの缶をもっている。
003 外国人2が日本人の腕に掴んでいる。
005 その外国人が日本人の腕をこづく
おさまったか、とおもったところで、
009 奥のもう1人の外国人3が後ろから、日本人の肩を軽くたたく。
(たぶん、このとき、外国人2が彼の肩を叩いて、挑発した、と勘違いしたのではないか?)
動画がちょっと飛ぶ。立っていた外国人1が問題の二人の間の空席に座っている。
012 今度は日本人がその中に入った外国人1の後ろから最初の外国人2にふれようとする。

すると、「Don't touch 触るな、友達じゃないよ、」となって、「友達じゃないよ」と返答があって、「この手は(なに)さわらないでよ」となって、事態ははエスカレートしていく・・・・。


これ、「ぼくが触ったわけじゃないです」「友達だったら肩を気軽に触ってもいいけど、あなたは私の友達というわけではないでしょう?」とでも言わなくては、多分通じていない。

それと、車内でビールの缶をもっているのも気になる。ここらへん、一部の外国人に誤解があるようで、

1)新幹線など長距離用列車でテーブルなどついているところでは、車内で飲み食いはOkay.
2)通勤用の列車内で、飲み食いするのはエチケット違反。特に酒類はまずい。
仮に日本人がやっているところをみたとしても、その日本人は他の日本人から白い目でみられている。

なにはともあれ、暴力に訴えるのは悪い。

ロコさんのブログ

04 July 2011 ~ 12 COMMENTS
A Love hotel Supreme…in Yokohama!

日本のラブホテルの紹介
それに対して、

Rie in Osaka
9 July 2011 at 9:09 am
PERMALINK
I don’t think it’s appropriate to post pictures of schoolchildren you teach and love hotels on the same web site. Please use some common sense!

REPLY

Locohama
9 July 2011 at 9:50 am
PERMALINK
Oh geez! Rie, please get a grip! Take a deep breath and put the bible prozac down. It’s a hotel where people, like their parents,have sex. A classy one at that. Big deal Lighten up

REPLY

学校の子供たちの写真を掲載しているブログでラブホテルなんか紹介するな、という意見があり、だって生徒たちの親がセックスしているホテルじゃないか、と。



30 June 2011 ~ 32 COMMENTS
Are Japanese school girls cute or sexy?


日本のが女学生のポスター
こうではなくて保守的なスカートのはきかたをしている女学生も多いが、こういう女学生もいる、と。

So, when I saw that ad above, shot from the back, asses barely covered (if not for that sweater wrapped around her waist I’m pretty sure that one on the right would be damn near showing glutes), purikura panchira, I had to ask myself: Is that cute or is that sexy? Is this ad sexualizing teens or just illustrating how cute and stylish their uniforms can be?

What do you guys think?
sexualize, sexualise [ˈsɛksjʊəˌlaɪz]
vb
1. to make or become sexual or sexually aware
2. to give or acquire sexual associations

これはかわいいのか、あるいは、セクシーなのか、これは10代の生徒をセクシャライズしているのか?


セクシャライズの意味にもよるが、ウィキのアメリカ心理学会によると、

American Psychological Association view

[edit]Definition
The American Psychological Association (APA) regards a person as being sexualized in any of the following situations:

a person’s value comes only from his or her sexual appeal or sexual behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics;
a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness (narrowly defined) with being sexy;
a person is sexually objectified—that is, made into a thing for others’ sexual use, rather than seen as a person with the capacity for independent action and decision making; and/or
sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person.[6]

うーん。どうかなあ、セクシャルアピールということは、異性を惹きつけるアピールということかな?

 要するに、ミニスカートは昔は大人の女性がはいていた。それは男性を惹きつけるための、ファッションでもあった。それを昨今は女学生がやっている。それを広告にしている、というのはいかがなものか、といった問題意識か?

 まず、女子高生のファッションというのも時代によって、変わるということ。


ガングロもしかり、ミニスカもしかり、マスクしてロングスカートはいている女学生がいた頃もあったわけだ。

 また、思春期は色気づいてきていつの時代でもいろんな妙な格好をするもので、そういった色気づいてきた少年やら少女のファッションに対して、親がうるさい人もいればそうでもない人もいる、ということ。

 ただ、こうしたファッションに対して、昔ならまだしも、いまでは、全体として、社会は非難に値する程でもない、として、一部の色気づいた女子学生ファッションを許容している。

 全体としてはその程度のものだが、一部のおじさんや一部の外国人には興味の的になっている、ということ。

 そんな一部の色気づいたガキンチョファッションに興味をもっているおっさんや外国人は助平である、と認識されるであろう、ということ。

 思春期には色気づくものだが、それを肯定してその表現をどれだけ、許すかどうかは時代や社会によって異なるのかもしれない。

 日本人の感覚からすると、学校の先生が彼女とラブホに行ったとを公のブログで書いたり、こうしたことに興味を示すこと自体が不謹慎のように感じるわけである。

 文化の違いといえば、文化の違いかもしれない。


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Have you ever experienced racism and xenophobia?
という質問に対して、
xenophobia? Yes there's a quite a bit of xenophobia in Japan especially many older generations...all those stories you've heard about Japan are true basically
である、と。But it is still a great place to live...とあって、フォロウしているのであるが・・・


知ったかぶりした若者はどこでもいるもので、それまでの話なのだが、あんさん、そんな沢山の日本人のおっさんやおばはんと話でもしたことがあるのかいな、とつっこみたくなる。

だが、そもそも、何故このような偏見があるのだろうか?


All those stories you've hear about Japan って有道ブログとその関係者による宣伝以外に、ゼノフォビアや人種差別について書いてある記事ってどれだけあるのだろうか?

彼女はニュージランド出身のようであるが、彼女の思うゼノフォビアや人種差別ってどんな感じなんだろうか?

ググると


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特に、要約するつもりもないが・・・・褒められたもんじゃないわなあ。



Is there a lot of racism towards black Americans in New Zealand? What is the best city to live in New Zealand?

Hi my name is Leo and I wanted to ask you are there any black people in new zealand? are people racist against black people from america? I am thinking of moving there after I graduate college. Could you also tell me what is it like in Auckland. How is the Nightlife there. I love to dance and I am looking for a place that has a lot of females and somewhere that has a lot to do
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vestifar...
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Hi Leo,

Like pretty much everywhere, you'll find racism in NZ too. But here the main targets of most racist comments/actions are generally those of Asian, Muslim or Maori (NZ's indigenous people) ethnicities. There have been a few (generally isolated) cases of physical or other severe racist attacks... but these are generally few and far between.... please don't be put off by Tothebatmobile's comments... he makes it sound like we are stuck in 1960's southern USA with his talk of the KKK... it is not at all like that here. Most racism in NZ I think stems from lack of understanding, rather than hatred... although, I must admit I am "white", so perhaps its different from a non-white perspective.

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Most other racism in NZ is probably more to do with language and cultural differences, rather than the colour of their skin... e.g. Asian, Indian or Muslim immigrants... again, a lack of understanding and threat of something different, rather than a general hatred or malice... or the fact that their skin is a different colour. A lot of immigrant communities tend to be quite insular, and I think some kiwis are threatened by that, and think that they are not trying to 'fit in' to our culture... which is where the mis-understanding, intolerance & racism comes from.
Given that American culture is very similar to Kiwi culture, I don't think you would have many (if any) problems here... in fact, people will probably hassle you more for being an American in general, than for being African-American... there is quite a lot of anti-Bush sentiment here in NZ (and anti-Iraq war), which many NZ'ers seem to tar every American with, whether they support Bush and the war or not... but again, nothing major enough that should put you off coming here.
I spent 6 weeks travelling around the Southern states of the US a year or so ago... In some places I could feel the tension between "whites" and "blacks"... I have never felt that here in NZ.... racism here is more about innappropriate comments from someone that hasn't thought before they spoke.
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アフリカ系アメリカ人はNZで差別受ける?という懸念を表明している質問に、差別の対象になるのはアジア人やイスラム教徒や先住民だよ、と。地域による違いもある、として地域を列挙した後、
それ以外の人種差別は肌の色というより、言語や文化の違いに基づくもので、たとえば、アジア人やインド人やイスラム教徒などで、憎しみや悪意に基づくというより、誤解や違うものに対する不安に起因している、と思う。多くの移民は孤立していて、そうしたことを不安に思うNZ人もいるようだ、と。

アフリカ系アメリカ人にとってアメリカ南部よりましなんじゃないか、と。


NZに関して、たぶん、ほとんどの日本人は、こうした偏見、あるいは知識をもっていないのであるが、なんで、このおねえさんは日本に関してああした偏見をもっているのであろうか?


英語圏のメディアが注目する事柄が、右翼、軍国主義、Sexualized Japan 外国人嫌い、人種・男女差別などに偏っているのではないか?