Before it is too late, let us learn from the devolution in the moral fibre of others. For if we are not too vigilant, we may too follow in their tracks.before it's too late. There was once a time in which the Japanese were respected and feared all throughout Asia.
Take for example this propaganda clip on the might of the Japanese Imperial Navy of old.
...And take in a recruitment commercial for the same navy, sixty years latter.
They went from THIS to THAT in three generations.
Think that the above weeniefication cannot happen here? If we are not vigilant we will too. As once proud cities in our country turn liberal, our love for independence and self-reliance may too be bred-out of future generations.
San Francisco was once known for its rough Watermen. They were the backbone of their proud city.
... Their Steel Workers
And now, in just three short generations...
Boq
Take for example this propaganda clip on the might of the Japanese Imperial Navy of old.
...And take in a recruitment commercial for the same navy, sixty years latter.
They went from THIS to THAT in three generations.
Think that the above weeniefication cannot happen here? If we are not vigilant we will too. As once proud cities in our country turn liberal, our love for independence and self-reliance may too be bred-out of future generations.
San Francisco was once known for its rough Watermen. They were the backbone of their proud city.
... Their Steel Workers
And now, in just three short generations...
Boq
-- ummmmmmmm --
-- waitaminnit --
That didn't come out right, did it?
Meh, it's cultural. I kept expecting to see the Japanese sailors in the 2nd video turn into Mighty Morphin Power Sailors or something, while their ships transformed into giant, stompy robots.
Said robots and MMPS could then be joined in their dance number by the Village People from San Fran.
Now, back to mainly things, like chawin' terbaccy, scratchin' mah johnson, belchin' last nights brewskies and rudely propositioning ladies....
Chinatown, Fort Point, the Golden Gate bridge and watching 'Dirty Harry' movies being filmed there...(Magnum Force and The Enforcer). The War Memorial Opera House (saw many ballets and heard/saw more than a few operas there), and the Maritime Museum at North Polk Street, the Wharf, Ghirardelli Square...Sigh.
I am homesick for a California that no longer exists.
Nob Hill, Coit Tower, Golden Gate park and the Presidio of San Francisco. I got stitches at Letterman Army Hospital. We had family that lived in CA, now they have all left. I left when the Engineer went back into the Army; my family has fled over the past 21 years.
{/snerk}
My grandfather was one of those steel men - they left in the early seventies when he called it the land of the regulatory dictators.
We have helped to destroy the Japanese culture, just as we have our own.
As for pooftery. I am not happy about that word use at all.