Choking chicks and sodomy...
System Of A Down is one of my favourite bands even though I don't listen to it that much nowadays. But they have strong messages in their lyrics. Accompanied with awesome melodies.
But well, you know, the media. This thing that manipulates how people should think about things and how to almost live basically. It also gives us information on about things happening around us, with few things added now and then.
Our teacher asked why we haven't mentioned/talked this one thing that happened in Osaka few weeks back (when he asked about it). Why indeed because we didn't know about it. And why is that? WHY. WHY.
Well following media here is extremely onesided to my opinion. Most of the news are in Japanese, what a shock, and the few sites that actually tell about news of Japan are either foreign pages or places like japantoday.com which I trust at some point but the style they choose write with is sometimes quite biased and childish and sometimes the information is out of context and seems right, I don't read the articles with even 50% "yup, I'm believing this 50%". I've really never trusted what the big media channels say/tell that much, I prefer to use and seek information from multiple places(+combine them) and word of mouth (if it seems legit).
Japanese news on TV have this really over the top official tone to them and they usually show politics (what the prime minister is doing/what he should be doing) and crimes and accidents in Kanto and bigger events happening in Japan. The Japanese news also have to be really shocking or important to reach foreign countries/be reported properly. Or if the news day is very quiet, the news of someone's demise might reach Europe... after 3 days.
So what was this news about? Apparently a group of Japanese (4 to 6 people) beat a Nepalese man to death in January by kicking him while he was on the ground and then throwing a bike on top of him.
Hearing something like that makes one sad and mad at the same time. Why people do things like this to each other? Just to be boring and just scrape the surface, I'll throw this thought in: It's because we're different and everything that's different scares us.
SO this a straight quote from japantoday.com in a short article (extremely short if I may add)
Ie was quoted by police as saying he “kicked the foreigner in the face and dropped a bike on him from about head height. I can’t believe we killed him,” TBS reported.
Excuse me. Hold the phone. Last time I checked, in the end humans are quite fragile creatures (mind and body). People get seriously injured from falling flat out on their face when tripping on imaginative obstacles or just one vile word is said to them and this.... They really didn't think that a kick(s) to the FACE and after that a BIKE smashed against your face wouldn't kill a human being. Life is not something to play with... The question might be, how you see this kind of violence?
They didn't even know the guy. They just beat him up. Why? Because he was a foreigner? He looked at them the wrong way? Was he just at a wrong place at a wrong time? Was the group bored and wanted something to play with? The last thought just makes me sick when I think about and write it down. Do they not value human life?
Japanese crimes are really violent. There are shootings, luckily guns are hard to get in Japan, and stabbings like in everywhere but then you get these violent beatings, mothers killing their babies. One that really made me feel bad was a report where a woman had broke the legs of 4 babies. The reason? She was jealous of happy mothers with their children. Jealousy and an anger bursts are the main reasons. One man added battery acid to his girlfriend's son's eyedrops because he hated him. Nothing else, just pure hate.
Then in crime news there are suicide cases. And they are just... unsettling. In no other country you usually see these reported or so... loudly in the society.
Japan has the highest suicide rate of the first world countries and it comes from everywhere. Pressure from the society, failures, personal issues... Here if someone jumps in front of a train, the... clean up and other bills (which are high) fall to the relatives. The pain is just immense. In Mid-February in the news story about a family who died of starvation... A family suicide. They were so ashamed of their financial demise that they rather died of hunger than asked any help. Family name must be kept, losing your face is the worst thing that will ever happen to you.
I think it's...not physical but almost mental violence that these cases cause to your conscience and thinking. Another one drops off from this life. Another case that makes you wonder why and could someone helped that person to survive, find a new purpose for them or just help them survive? Suicide is always the ultimate solution to a problem that you can solve.
I'm just jumping way out of my territory what I can write without sounding horribly cliched but just one phrase is stuck on replay in my head as I write this.The following line is incredibly cheesy but it's sadly also true...
Homō hominī lupus est.
Man is a wolf to man.
Is it true? Do Japanese believe in that sentence? Does anyone? Every man for himself, everyone else can do whatever they want. It's the inner family that matters in a pinch. By killing a innocent man, a foreigner and an enemy, were these people trying to protect their own country and families? Or... it hurts to even say it but... Are they just having fun?
Is being a foreigner here dangerous then? Even though scandinavians seems to have it "easier" here whe nit comes to walking alone and going to places but I personally suffer from one great disapvantage in this society: I'm a woman. I am the easier, wekaer target (I hatehatehatehateHATE that my gender puts me into danger and I will punch that person in the facial area who tells me I'm "just a woman" and apparently NOT a human being)... Yet that's the way the cookie crumbles here. It shouldn't. It's disgusting.
All these crimes and violence and prejudice is just extremely revolting to me.
I would make this blog post longer but there are so many things to talk about that I will divide this agony to multiple things. Indeed.
But well, until next time again :U
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