(Autumn Paddy Fields in Japan)KIND AMERICANS
When I put “Kind Japanese” in the keyword field of a certain English search engine of the Internet, it returned 7,290 results.
When I put “Kind American(s)” in Japanese in the keyword field of a certain Japanese search engine of the Internet, it returned 622 results.
One of such Japanese sites is a blog presented by a Japanese young woman.
She studied in the U.S. till July 2007.
She wrote in March 2007 that she met an American professor who was doing research on thoughts and ideologies of scientists having been involved in the Manhattan Project, when she happened to stay in a guest house of a college in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
The professor and his wife shared an opinion that those scientists must have felt the pangs of conscience (as they had helped kill hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians at the end of World War II).
She dared say to them that it must have been an act of racial discrimination that America had used the atomic bombs to the Empire of Japan but not to Nazi Germany, which the liberal couple agreed to.
According to her blog posting, though she felt uncomfortable expressing such a grave opinion of her own to the couple who were kind to her like some other Americans, she allowed herself to add that the atomic bomb attack on Japan had been a crime against humanity.
Then, the American couple nodded.
She wrote that it was always a liberal, highly-educated, and intelligent specialist or expert that took an interest in a foreigner like her from a country or a region which traditionally does not belong to the European Civilization.
Those liberal Americans are grouped into two types.
Liberal Americans who belong to the first group think that the religious right were skillfully mobilized by the Bush Administration to support the Iraqi War. Accordingly they believed (when she met them in 2007) that Mr. Barack Obama would win the Presidential Election in 2008.
Those of the second group think that America is essentially a conservative country with full of people who hate intellectual persons. These liberal Americans are overwhelmed by the persistent mood of the conservatism deeply rooted in the American history.
(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/rengejibu/searchdiary?of=12&word=*%5B%A5%A2%A5%E1%A5%EA%A5%AB%BF%CD%A4%C8%A4%CE%A5%B3%A5%DF%A5%E5%A5%CB%A5%B1%A1%BC%A5%B7%A5%E7%A5%F3%5D )
My concern is of course whom kind and conservative Americans will vote for on the coming Presidential Election Day.
I think they will vote for Mr. John McCain but also Democratic candidates for the Congress.
It is so, since spiritual matters are more important than economic matters.
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That is all for today.
There are kind people everywhere, since some people are born kind.
You can meet such good-natured persons even in a big city of China.
And, this week’s invention of mine is a cable car system in a city which is operated over roadways of a city.
It will allow for the best use of empty space over the vehicle road (a Japanese one in the above figure) of a big city along with promotion of sight-seeing.
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/lanovia.html )
Joh 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
Joh 11:2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Joh 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Joh 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.