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You know.. killing whales. Should it be internationally illegal? Is it okay with modesty? With such scarcity, is it even viable? Allow whale hunting?
All whale products have synthetic replacements.
There is no need to kill them.
The Jap's killed whales in our waters and yet all we do is take them to court instead of blowing their ship out of the water.
Uh dude, did you just call them Japs? Is that still acceptable in Oz?
Yeah, Jap is a pretty serious racial slur in America. It's cool though, you're a weird foreigner.
Japs is shortened japanese. Is the shortening of that word offenseive in America or something?
Right now we can't afford to hunt whales. Hell, the international community really needs to crack down on Japan for overfishing them for "research".
Maybe in some theoretical future where populations have been given time to recover, but certainly not now.
:yes:I think it's wrong but that's just my personal opinion.
I don't get what they are even used for anymore? Are there some Japanese oligarchs who can't get enough or something?
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My grandfather says that and makes jokes about the Japanese. We have to shush him up when we're in public.
He fought over in Germany while his brother fought in Japan during that period. So I guess times were different back then.
Well from what I've heard, it's nostalgia mostly. Whale meat is crap. However, back during WWII many poorer Japanese civilians were pretty much forced to eat it because they couldn't get any better meat. Nowadays it's people who for some strange reason had the taste grow on them.
edit: Of course there might be some other reason out there. This is just what I've heard from exchange students on campus.
Next thing we know, Yoopers, Trolls, Frogs & Newfies will object to their names.
Uh dude, we're talking about a term associated with the systematic imprisonment and theft of an entire ethnic group here. I mean, I'm not saying we should ban it's use or anything, but around here it is not the kind of word you use in polite company.
I mean we don't go around calling people *******, Chinks, or Kikes do we? It's just rude.