Utter confusion

On Saturday afternoon, I went for my part-time job at McDonald. I had no intention of working on that day, but my shop manager asked me for help, so I reluctantly decided to assist the shop which is in Heiwado.

Why I did not like to work on holidays is because simply busy and disorder. A large number of customers come and the shop becomes strained, and I feel the strain, so I do not want to work in that kind of atmosphere.

On that day, I worked about two and a half hours from eleven to one-thirty. It is the time when the shop becomes a peak hour and a shortage of workers. As I do, everyone avoids that peak hour, so the manager always looking for workers who are free and asking for help.

My work is to wait on customers, take the order, the accounts, and get a complete set of the goods. I have been working for two or three months now, so I become used to, but when it comes to holidays, it confuses me and makes me hasty. I always feel as though it has taken years off my life.

It is fun working at McDonald, but it needs perseverance and stamina.

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Alone at a time of danger

The author, Peter Sidell, of the letter, "Alone at a time of danger," to begin with, he states two affairs; a murder case which was occurred in Saitama Prefecture, and a rape that was happened in Osaka Prefecture.

A young woman was killed in Kawaguchi city, Saitama. Her neighbors did not seem to be concerned about the matter. When the woman asked for help, and one of her neighbors, a man, did hear her banging and screaming, but he, after all, did nothing. Her body was left alone for two days until her colleague has found her dead.

In Osaka, a man got closer to a woman on the train and assaulted her, dragged her into the toilet, and raped her. Although, there were passengers on the train, the crime was occurred, and again no one did anything.

The author adopts these two facts as his authorities and tries to persuade the readers, but its reliability is doubtful because he did not mention the source of information. He also uses emotional appeal that he is nonplussed by these affairs happened in spite of people around the victims. To protect oneself from danger, the author declares that defend oneself by oneself.

Fingerprinting foreigners

A new bill shall come into force on November 20. This new scheme is applicable to the foreigners to take a fingerprint and photograph whenever they immigrate into Japan.

Regarding to the letter, "Not so welcome to Japan any longer," written by Kevin Rafferty, the project was criticized for infringing on human rights, but it will take effect promoting by the Ministry of Justice.

The country, which carries out the policy, is only Japan next to the United States. Somehow, Japan tags along behind the U.S. However, all permanent residents are out of the target in the U.S, but in a case of Japan, only specific permanent residents are to exempt.

The foreigners insist that the fingerprinting analysis is a discriminatory. Besides, the Japanese are also revolt to this line that it should be originally demanded to only a criminal or suspect. The argument that backers of fingerprinting assert is to save the world from terrorists. However, it is simply to identify, not to establish the terrorist, so it is nothing, but useless.

Foreigners views of racism in Japan

In Japan, there was some kind of discrimination since old days, such as racial discrimination, especially the Chinese and Korean, and a hamlet discrimination as you can see in the article, "Which minority groups face the worst discrimination?" which was written by Shaun McKenna. However, in recent years, there are some people who discriminate the handicapped by their looks or behavior. A person who becomes the focus of discrimination is generally a person who is in a weak position, what is called, "bully the weak."

Still, are these things only happen in Japan? Is discrimination exist simply in Japan? I do not think so. That is asking for too much labelling the Japanese as racism. It is some kind of prejudice that to have a general idea of Japan is cold-bloodedness race.

There is a response to this article :

"Ebb and flow discrimination" which was written by Mike Dewood. He said that it depends on the place where a person lives whether he/she gets discriminated against or not. That is true. It can be said that healthy Japanese should not be discriminated in Japan. However, in fact, there are some Japanese who are discriminated because of their disorders. Therefore, it cannot be declared absolutely correct. As Americans are discriminated in Japan, Japanese are discriminated in America. Discrimination are scattered all over the world.