I don't like the Japanese after seeing this - The Cove (2009) Discussion

[–] goby_shankar 12 years ago

me 2. i thought they are hard workers & smarter than ours.

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[–] magnuspetersson72 12 years ago

So you are judging a whole nation for a small fishing village? Seriously?

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[–] goby_shankar 12 years ago

its nt like that. i wrote there hw i feel nw thats all.

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[–] JPfanatic93 12 years ago

It's not just that village, it's much more widespread than that but the movie focuses on Taiji because it profiles itself as the dolphin capital of the world. Plus, the fact it continues to this day despite it being now common knowledge makes the whole country guilty as far as I'm concerned.

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[–] Kieselguhr 12 years ago

I never did like the Japs.
They are such two-faced bastards.
I say bomb them back to the Stone Age.

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[–] jimmyderzko 12 years ago

My sister went to Japan once and told me "they are a very polite people, but give them a chance and they will take over the world."

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[–] GreyCadillacs 12 years ago

And in related news, stereotyping and racism is alive and well!

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[–] jimmyderzko 12 years ago

Japanese hate black people so shut up about racism

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[–] GreyCadillacs 12 years ago

And along with that, blanket judgements still persist to this day despite evidence to the contrary! Move humanity forward?? Bah! I'd rather continue with the viewpoint that everyone hates everyone!

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[–] besuhamiruton 12 years ago

Japan has almost zero hate crimes. Is xenophobia a problem? Yes. But racism is alive and well everywhere. At least here you don't have to worry about getting beaten because of the color of your skin. Most "racism" in Japan is just ignorance. There is a difference.

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[–] jimmyderzko 12 years ago

I suspect if they too had *beep* murdering and raping their people things would be different.

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[–] lango1 12 years ago

guysssss calm down

In the documentry they show the slaughter footage to some of the Japanese people in which they didn't have a clue and responded in shock and they were disgusted.

Its the same as slaughtering/cruelty of other animals in japan for example dogs kept in tiny cages? people dont know about this! and the people that do well they have no heart, buts my point is , its not all of japan.

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[–] Petals121 11 years ago

But the movie was made in 2009. So why hasn't the practice of killing the dolphins stopped? To me that reeks of the general public not caring about the killings and not caring about them enough to stop them.

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[–] magnuspetersson72 11 years ago

Most people have not seen this movie. To begin with its not a Japanese film, hense why not so very many people in JAPAN has seen it. Does normal, everyday people in America watch foreign documentaries?

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[–] QTKeet 10 years ago

At least here you don't have to worry about getting beaten because of the color of your skin.

...no, it's worse if you have flippers. Then god help you because the last several hours of your life will be spent as some psychopath fisherman's bloody voodoo doll.

At least we have laws against racism.

Regardless of their "culture", it's really hard to imagine the type of demented person who is willing to do this to another creature. There's no amount of money you could pay me to even BE there, let alone partake in the killings... this is true even if I had a starving family to support.

I always liked Japan, more than any other Asian nation, but it was really hard to WANT to like Japan after seeing this ugly side.

I'm quite surprised that the hater trolls haven't mentioned the tsunami on these forums... even that would be too cruel of any Westerner, after all, even trolls have a heart.

-"But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen..."

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[–] ciarandino 11 years ago

Hey, dark practices go off in countries all over the world. It's bigoted and judgmental to write off an ENTIRE country of people because of one negative. Just look at our farming industries in the west, there's plenty of cruelty going on behind the scenes there, so before you just say such things, take that into consideration. Just writing off an entire people because of this will not, I repeat, will not help to change this cruelty. The best way to stop this is to change views in Japan. Acting like this just antagonizes people, and trust me, antagonizing people never helps to bring on change. And since you're all asking why it hasn't stopped, why hasn't change similarly occurred over here in the west in our farming industry? There are documentaries readily available, the information is all there, yet it still goes on. It reeks of hypocrisy when you write off an entire country because of the cruelty when our own countries are far from guilt free. I'm just saying, hatred will change nothing, it just creates more hatred, and we don't need more of that for f^cks sake.

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[–] azrabiho 10 years ago

I don't like Americans after seeing your comment. I am guessing you are one considering your lack of cultural knowledge, ignorance and overall stupidity?

MURICAAAAAA! Fat *beep* No wownder the whole world hates you.

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[–] gettinmygrooveon 10 years ago

I've lived in Japan for over 10 years now. I have a Japanese wife and a daughter who is half American and half Japanese.

Japan is very safe and there is almost zero crime, violent or otherwise.

I think the fishermen in Taiji should be compared to the rednecks that live in the southern states in the US. Those people hunt and kill and have little regard for animal or even human rights (blacks, homosexuals, etc.).

I think many people "hate Americans" because they think all Americans share the views of these ignorant rednecks. Not all Japanese share the view of their equivalent "rednecks". The problem is that Japanese absolutely HATE to be told what to do. They quickly refer to it as bullying and have fought several wars because of it.

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[–] mfentruck 10 years ago

I am a half Japanese and half American like your daughter. :) I have also never harmed a dolphin in my life and I am an animal rights activist.
I'm so so sick of the racism over this.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

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[–] heatherderringer 10 years ago

They are so into their "cuteness" culture yet they won't say a damn thing about dolphins suffering a most cruel death unnecesarily

We tend to assume that, because they're traditionally a fishing-based society, whaling is just an extension of that practice. But whale meat was never really a significant part of Japanese culture until recently. Like the rest of the world, they briefly tried to harvest whale oil on an industrial scale, but even that was Norway's bad influence. To explain this modern craze, we're going right back to World War II (kind of a big deal at the time).

After the war ended, the Japanese became deeply impoverished and were on the verge of famine. It was the US General Douglas MacArthur, leader of American-occupied Japan, who helpfully suggested that the answer to Japan's food shortages was to take up whaling as a large-scale industry. Ever since then, whale has become a notable factor in the Japanese diet.

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[–] AfroGeek 9 years ago

The documentary made it pretty clear most people had no clue what was happening. Now, they were still buying dolphin meat sold as whale meat...

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