(Tokyo, Japan)American Dream and Miracle in Japan
(Rêve américain et un miracle au Japon)
SECTION I: AMERICAN DREAM
The New York Times Online has mentioned a state of the American Dream paradigm:
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“The American dream of opportunity is alive, but frayed,” said Isabel Sawhill, another author of the report, “Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Mobility in America.” The report is at http: //economicmobility.org/.
“It’s still alive for immigrants but badly tattered for African-Americans,” said Ms. Sawhill, an economist and a budget official in the Clinton administration. “It’s more alive for people in the middle class than for people at the very bottom.”
The report and planned studies constitute the most comprehensive effort to examine intergenerational mobility, said John E. Morton of the Pew Trusts, who is managing the project. It draws heavily on a federally supported survey by the University of Michigan that has followed thousands of families since the late 1960s.
A chapter of the report released last fall found startling evidence that a majority of black children born to middle-class parents grew up to have lower incomes and that nearly half of middle-class black children fell into the bottom fifth in adulthood, compared with 16 percent of middle-class white children.
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Still they do not understand why the God Almighty allowed Columbus to sail to the west on the Atlantic with a dream of reaching Japan, a nation of gold as described in Marco Polo’s book, but eventually find the New Continent later named America.
It is not to make poor Europeans rich.
It was to give another chance to European Christians whose belief had been badly influenced by arrogant and profane mental development of the Vatican, so that they could become true Christians and followers of Jesus Christ in the new continent.
I hope that The New York Times will stop using the term “American Dream” in a context of material prosperity and success as well as pursuit of wealth in America.
Americans should use the word “American Dream” as a concept meaning spiritual growth and religious success as well as pursuit of true faith in America.
SECTION II: AFRICAN AMERICANS
The most unique people in America have been always African Americans.
If you admit that the God gave another chance to European Christians whose belief had been badly influenced by arrogant and profane mental development of the Vatican, so that they could become true Christians and followers of Jesus Christ in the new continent, you might wonder what the existence of African Americans in the new continent means.
Europeans who wanted to materialize their lustful American Dream brought Africans by force to America in order to use them as slaves, namely free labor force.
So, even in the American society today, there is a mainstream system inherently unsuitable for material success of African Americans, meaning that barriers for them to be rich are higher.
But, it is not bad at all for African Americans, since their unhappiness is all for emergence of glory of the God.
In this context, African Americans are expected to become true Christians and followers of Jesus Christ in lieu of European Americans, since the latter has failed in this context as they are still shouting “American Dream” in terms of material success Jesus Christ completely rejected.
In terms of religion, it is African Americans that represent Americans today from a historical point of view.
So, be proud of being chosen so by the God for the holy mission, and go back to Africa to tell people there what you have learnt spiritually in the new continent where profane European Americans are still shouting “American Dream” in terms of material success Jesus Christ completely rejected.
And then, help Africans protect themselves from invasion by Europeans.
SECTION III: A RECENT MIRACLE IN JAPAN
Ordinary American high-school students living in a local town never dream how globally influential businesses with their headquarters in New York are.
And, ordinary young workers in New York never dream how globally influential governmental departments and agencies in Washington DC are.
When ordinary young Americans start to work in the Department of Defense even before the era of the War on Terror, they usually for the first time discover how globally extensive and massive the deployment of the US military forces are.
Indeed, what symbolizes the success of the material American Dream is this establishment of hugely and globally deployed US military forces.
Even an American country boy recruited and sent to an overseas base will realize what sustains materially rich America.
Good or bad, a global economic system and a trade framework are kept favorable to the U.S. because the US military forces have been bolstering those international systems with material forces expelling enemies against free trade, free market, free economy, and underlying democracy.
But, transferring 60 US Naval jet fighters to a base near a densely-populated area of a city near Hiroshima from another base near Tokyo is controversial.
Noises, risks of downing of a plane, and possibility of an increase in crimes involving US soldiers have worried Japanese residents and citizens in the city.
So, recently an election for the mayor of the city was conducted to decide whether to accept such a transfer plan involving the US Naval planes or not.
Consequently, a candidate who favors the US Navy plan supported by the ruling parties and the Japanese Government won, though, by the very narrow margin.
After the election, strangely, a few accidents involving US Military and Japanese Self-Defense Force happened in and around Japan.
A US soldier in an Okinawa base violated a middle school Japanese girl and was arrested by Japanese police.
A Japanese Aegis ship of the Self-Defense Force yesterday hit and sank a small fishing boat near the Tokyo Bay two Japanese fishermen on which are still missing.
If these two incidents had happened before the election of the said city, another candidate (the former mayor of the city against the ruling parties) who is against the US military transformation would have been elected.
Liberal people in Japan are against the US military transformation and Japan’s cooperation with the U.S. for promoting the US global military strategy.
But, they are very reluctant in blaming nuclear arms development efforts by North Korea.
Some of them actually have helped North Korea hide their covert operation to abduct 100 or so Japanese citizens for intelligent and espionage purposes.
It is because they believe that North Korea is a good socialist country against the bad capitalist country America who is exploiting Japan while doing nothing good to Japan.
Hiroshima is near the Korean Peninsula. The election in the city near Hiroshima with the issue of controversy about US military deployment must concern North Korea. So, I was afraid that an outcome of the election might send a bad message to North Korea.
In addition, some liberal critics and pundits were saying that if voters of the city selected the candidate who approved the US military deployment and Japanese Government’s cooperation with the US must know shame as they are selling their good Japanese souls to the devil by receiving subsidiary money from the Government.
I can understand the feeling and claims of those liberal Japanese people. But, I worried over their attitudes: they put themselves in the absolute justice and blamed opponents, saying that they have sold their good Japanese souls to the devil.
And, they never mentioned the influence of their attitudes on North Korea. I didn’t think that their manner would lead to solution of the issue on Japanese abductees by North Korea.
If you are going to fight against the U.S. and the Japanese Government, you must be like followers of Jesus Christ.
You must not be like a hypocrite.
And, as those harmful incidents involving the US military in Okinawa and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force happened after the election, the candidate in favor of US military transformation was elected.
So, I find a miracle in this sequence of events, since the existence of the US military in Japan has a very significant meaning that cannot be easily handled by present professional liberals in Japan, no matter if they call themselves Christians or Buddhists.
If in future all the US military bases in Japan are abolished and taken away, it must be done by more thoughtful voters, taxpayers, and consumers in responsible communities in Japan but not by those making money by selling liberal ideas while neglecting Japanese abductees by North Korea for their political or personal interest and strategy.
So, I find a miracle in this sequence of events, which ordinary US citizens never know unless reported here.
And, I hope that a miracle will also happen in the 2008 US Presidential Election alike.
(If you are an attractive girl, you may become simply happy in a conservative community.
But, in case you are not, which however I think to be impossible, you might not become easily happy in a conservative community where there are many wrong capitalists who judge everything in terms of commercial value in market.
So, you might try to be happy by joining a liberal community, expecting their big welcome. But, it can be a fatal mistake, since there are many liberals whose hate is stronger than love.
However, if you join a conventional religious community, it might be worse.
You must think twice and thrice.
Nonetheless, if you are an attractive girl, which you are since you are reading EEE Report, but still find a sin in a conservative community, you may be given a chance to be saved and blessed by the Messiah.
Yet, I do not blame you, if you join any party, since I know the God will judge everybody on the same standards.
The more you are given, the more you are expected to give.)
“…builds itself through love…”
(Es baut sich durch die Liebe)