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November 4, 2005 at 12:00 AM
I'm sorry, but I could not stand the way you used the "Japanese hate to be mistaken for Chinese" thing. You don't seem to understand the gravity of it at all. Did you even bother to find out one of the reasons why Japanese hate to be mistaken for Chinese? This isn't an issue of merely being mistaken for another race. There's also the fact that there's a huge historical grudge between the Japanese and the Chinese. Do some research. In WWII, the Japanese practically massacred Chinese civillians, going so far as to use them in incredibly inhumane biochemical experiments, as the Japanese considered the Chinese to be an "inferior" race. Look up "Unit 731" on Google.
THAT is why many Japanese will be offended when mistaken for a Chinese--they don't want to be compared to an "inferior" race. They also feel this way about Koreans, whose country they occupied savagely for over 35 years, even forcing them to change their name from "Corea" to "Korea" simply because "C" came before "J" in the alphabet.
Even today, there are huge political differences between Japan and Korea/China.
The way you used this attitude in your writing was incredibly offensive to me, as I am Chinese.
I passed this fanfiction to a Japanese friend of mine, who was too furious to personally comment, and she was offended as well. She feels that it casts the Japanese in a negative, ignorant, intolerant light. As a Japanese that has grown up in the international community, rather than in Japan, she *has* learnt of Japanese war crimes, and *has* many Chinese and Korean friends. She is not one of the Japanese who feel offended when mistaken for a Chinese; she feels it can be an honest mistake. She would like to inform you that not all Japanese grow up in Japan, where the Japanese government has removed Japanese war atrocities from their school textbooks, even altering historical events to blame Chinese and Koreans. There are some Japanese people who *do* know what's going on.
Don't try and defend yourself with the "WARNING: RACIAL SLURS" in the author's note. This is beyond racial slurs--when properly used, I can handle those. This is pure ignorance on your part.
And if you think the Japanese dislike being mistaken for Chinese or Koreans, just think how mad some Chinese and Koreans get when they're mistaken for Japanese--a race that has brutally killed and oppressed their ancestors.
If your school offers courses in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese history, I would reccomend that you take them. Learn of the history before attempting to use what is not just "a bit of info you learnt about Japanese being offended" but is actually historical hate.
We're trying to move past the hate. Don't fucking use it.
THAT is why many Japanese will be offended when mistaken for a Chinese--they don't want to be compared to an "inferior" race. They also feel this way about Koreans, whose country they occupied savagely for over 35 years, even forcing them to change their name from "Corea" to "Korea" simply because "C" came before "J" in the alphabet.
Even today, there are huge political differences between Japan and Korea/China.
The way you used this attitude in your writing was incredibly offensive to me, as I am Chinese.
I passed this fanfiction to a Japanese friend of mine, who was too furious to personally comment, and she was offended as well. She feels that it casts the Japanese in a negative, ignorant, intolerant light. As a Japanese that has grown up in the international community, rather than in Japan, she *has* learnt of Japanese war crimes, and *has* many Chinese and Korean friends. She is not one of the Japanese who feel offended when mistaken for a Chinese; she feels it can be an honest mistake. She would like to inform you that not all Japanese grow up in Japan, where the Japanese government has removed Japanese war atrocities from their school textbooks, even altering historical events to blame Chinese and Koreans. There are some Japanese people who *do* know what's going on.
Don't try and defend yourself with the "WARNING: RACIAL SLURS" in the author's note. This is beyond racial slurs--when properly used, I can handle those. This is pure ignorance on your part.
And if you think the Japanese dislike being mistaken for Chinese or Koreans, just think how mad some Chinese and Koreans get when they're mistaken for Japanese--a race that has brutally killed and oppressed their ancestors.
If your school offers courses in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese history, I would reccomend that you take them. Learn of the history before attempting to use what is not just "a bit of info you learnt about Japanese being offended" but is actually historical hate.
We're trying to move past the hate. Don't fucking use it.
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November 2, 2005 at 12:00 AM
Your story is really interesting....it's definitely and different angle on Rin and Sesshomaru that I never read before. Sesshomaru with cornrows and baggy clothes?!?!.....that image was pretty strange and funny......I'm cool with most of your slang in the piece....If Rin was hanging tough in the hood of Chicago....yea, she would pick up certain speech element.....But, the "N" word does not need to but in it.....I'm from the hood myself, and only one or two people had never said that word when I was growing up. I know you're story will survive without that word.....and beside you don't want people to think what is "ALL" African- American people go around saying to each other all the time...do you? that word stem from slavery days and the KKK....that word is nothing but "HATE", and let's try to get rid of all the hate in the world shall we?????
But other than that I can't wait until the next chapter, you're a good writer with a good imagination, so please lose the word and keep it coming.....update soon
But other than that I can't wait until the next chapter, you're a good writer with a good imagination, so please lose the word and keep it coming.....update soon
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November 2, 2005 at 12:00 AM
I LUV your story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I luv the language and the descriptions and the other stuff that i'm to lazy to type. I can't wait for the next chapter!!!!! Please hurry with the next chapter!!!!!!! And when is Rin and Sesshomaru gonna do it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!(I'm a little perverted...hehe) Pez Hurry!!!!!!!
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
This was hot. I love the concept of everything. Lookin' forward to the next chapter. Oh and please give Kagura the beat down she deserves, she is on my everlasting nerve in this fic.
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
YO UR STORY IS TIGHT! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS!
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
nice chap, though a little diffculty interpretin some stuff, update soon!
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
I'm african-american also. I thought I was the only one. I'll be reading your story for now on.
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
yo dis shit iz tight......i b havin dat same drama
now yo you need to up date and i mean soon
now yo you need to up date and i mean soon
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November 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM
yo girl wass up dis shit is hell gangsta shit i like rin attitude homes i like ya crew i see ya know spanish, hey is aight bout the N word notin' to worried chica i'm a beaner break is mexican nice i'm 2 so where ya 4? por favor update next time put R.kelly fet. wisin y yandel the one is call burn it up. PORQUE IS KAGURA UNA PINCHE PERRA!!! let rin beat dat shioutt of her. PEACEOUT
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October 31, 2005 at 12:00 AM
Hello. Well, I like the start to your story. Any Rin and Sess romance is sure to make me smile, but I really like the attitude you gave Rin, and Sess seems to be in character, which is hard to write. I look forward to your next installment,