Barbarians

Japan Argues to Hunt Minke Whales (washingtonpost)
Moratorium on Commercial Whaling Upheld (washingtonpost)

This news has reminded me of the words of Claude Levi-Strauss about "barbarian." The persons called "barbarians," he said, should refer to the ones who do not accept anything they are not familiar with. Before, Japanese found it strange that some westerners eat cattle, but have accepted them as food. You know, what you should live on depends upon its geographical environment. Japan has been an isolated island country where they have found foodstuff peculiar to the island. It seems to me that anti-whaling factions have something hidden against Japan in their minds. Let me call them barbarians.

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