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Meta comment on cultural awareness: "Japan wants you to say its leader’s name correctly: Abe Shinzo [1]" Why authors are still messing this up almost 5 years later is bewildering [1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/japan-name-abe-shinzo-in...
Should we just print it in katakana too, so that we're not "culturally unaware"?
It’s crazy how the assassination and the public acceptance of the assassin’s goals sound like something out of Persona 5.
Meta comment on cultural awareness: "Japan wants you to say its leader’s name correctly: Abe Shinzo [1]" Why authors are still messing this up almost 5 years later is bewildering [1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/japan-name-abe-shinzo-in...
>Why authors are still messing this up almost 5 years later is bewildering I don't have an opinion on it but Westerners unfamiliar with Asian naming conventions can get conflicting signals. Some famous Japanese names that are well-known to Western audiences are written "FirstName FamilyName" instead of "FamilyName FirstName": baseball star: Shohei Ohtani not Ohtani Shohei actor: Ken Watanabe not Watanabe Ken Maybe th…
It’s crazy how the assassination and the public acceptance of the assassin’s goals sound like something out of Persona 5.
Another more contemporary example would be the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (prime minister of Israel) in 95, which had a lot of local public support.
The article makes it seem like people discovered about the cult connections after the fact. I wish I had known more about it to ask more questions. If anyone has more insight about it, I'd be glad to learn more.
Ironically I was reading 1Q84 at the time, which is about a cult in Japan.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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The Soviet atheists absolutely took the cake for most murder by a religious faction. What you’re describing is a people problem, not a religion problem.
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."
I know from personal experience that many Koreans who own sushi restaurants are part of this cult, they knew each other at church all donated a lot and the only reason I know is that my friend dated a girl whose parents were part of it.
The sushi trade is unable to be separated from the moonies. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush... that will be Moon's legacy I know from personal experience that many Koreans who own sushi restaurants are part of this cult, they knew each other at church all donated a lot and the only reason I know is that my friend dated a girl whose parents were part of it.
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The comparison between South Korea and Israel isn't very strong. America fought the Korean War and still has 28,500 troops stationed there, along with a combined forces command. Some US soldiers are stationed right on the border with North Korea, just so that a North Korean invasion will kill Americans and immediately trigger an American response. Secondarily, securing Korea as a trading partner for Japan was an expl…