Received: from icpc11s.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp ([133.7.1.11]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1N8AxP17399 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:11:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.6.10]) by icpc11s.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1N8Atd8002905 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:10:55 +0900 (JST) Received: from edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.28.100]) by icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1N8AsNq022359 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:10:55 +0900 (JST) Received: from CJSLITT (cjsllit.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.21.9]) by edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1N8AskX015558 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:10:54 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <007201c2db13$85f3bc80$09150785@fedu.fukuiu.ac.jp> Reply-To: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> From: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> References: <01C2DA65.6AF6B3A0.ldpierce@emlc.org> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8579] War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:14:01 +0900 Organization: Fukui University Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Status: O Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 31 Well here I am, an American in Fukui, Japan, and I have EFL students asking me, Why does the US attack everyone all the time? Why has war become almost an annual event? What do I say? My country right or wrong? That American's unsurpassed power somehow gives it the moral right to decide who lives and who dies? Do I get indignant and tell my students they are talking 'crap'? My students right here in Fukui City can go ask their grandparents if they want to hear real memories of what war actually means. The entire city was incinerated, and the forested hill in the center became one giant charnel. I walk there every week among the trees and look at the thousands upon thousands of gravestones that show life after life barely lived and then snuffed out. Indignation is cheap. I don't think of their questions as attacks. I tell them what my views are, and they actually appear thankful that not all Americans think like the current administration does. I suggest some Americans I know review what freedom of speech means. They might start with the recent articles of John Pilger, an Australian. Written in a plain English that most federal emergency management bureaucrats can't touch. You might also ask why is it that such blunt journalism makes up less than 1% of what is published and almost none of it in the mainstream press in the US. Charles Jannuzi Fukui, Japan
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