You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting

Author:Robert Whiting
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

What is this, acting big? Manager Fujita obeying Smith’s instructions? What else can this be but the gaijin major league complex? And Smith is taking full advantage of it.

The paper quoted a Japanese college professor who said Smith’s behavior reflected American attitudes of superiority toward Japanese in general.

The Americans are making fools of the Japanese and baseball is only one example. They think of the Japanese as “yellow,” and as “acting like monkeys.” So naturally a baseball player like Smith says, “Sure. Give me two hundred million yen and I’ll do a little dance for baseball.…”

Gaijin cut into lines at Tokyo Disneyland and the Japanese let them. They look the other way at such lawless behavior. It’s a fact of life they let Westerners run over them.…

Nakasone and Reagan might call each other “Ron and Yasu.” But deep inside, Reagan must only be thinking he is gaining some advantage by allowing that. That group thinks of people with colored skin as yellow monkeys with tongues sticking out. Japanese are being held cheaply all the way from the prime minister’s office to the world of baseball.

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