Haiku for the Greening of Mitsubish (r)

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Subject: Re: Haiku for the Greening of Mitsubishi 

    > 
    > HAIKU D'ETAT   "Mitsubishi out of Burma"
    > March 20, 1996   Osaka, Japan
    > 
    > In the rain I saw
    > Strange men armed with chainsaws
    > Cut down my playground.
    >      - Carol Schlenker, Tokyo
    > 
    >		[many other pseudo-haiku poems in English written
    >		by people with Anglo-Saxon names]
    > 

while i am sympathetic to the Free Burma movement and have
participated in demonstrations, video-showings, etc., i highly
object to the method you have taken to attack Mitsubishi:
offensive pseudo-haiku poems in English written by Americans.

please stop producing/collecting/distributing these offensive
pseudo-haiku poems.

(1) pseudo-haiku in English is an insult to the Japanese culture. 
(2) i believe they are largely a product of American racism.
	(elaborated below)

i'd like to see some evidence justifying an attack obsessively
focusing on Mitsubishi.
(i don't want to receive any material by e-mail).

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(1) pseudo-haiku in English is an insult to the Japanese culture.
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Chapter 4 "the stupidity of English haiku" of the book "nihongo
no rizumu" by BEKKU Sadanori explains why pseudo-haiku poems in
English are stupid, from the viewpoint of Japanese rhythm.
5-7-5 syllable (or 3-line) English pseudo-haiku does not
preserve the essence of Japanese haiku, the 4-beat rhythm.

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(2) i believe they are largely a product of American racism.
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these stupid pseudo-haiku in English (practiced mainly in the
USA) is a symbol of American disrespect of Japanese culture.

and i can see how racist white Americans would take pleasure in
using this form in criticizing Mitsubishi.  it's like how white
American racists often call me "Tanaka-san" or "Nipponese"
(instead of "Mr. Tanaka" or "Japanese") when they want to insult me.

if you want to criticize Mitsubishi, please do it fairly.
please don't combine it with underlying American racism, by
focusing on a superficial understanding of Japanese ethnicity
and using offensive pseudo-haiku in English.


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