SteeleRedux,
Forgive me if I get this wrong but weren't these people from Okinawa Japanese?
If so what right have they to align themselves with decent humanity. My father was a prisoner of the Japanese and he was a nut case till the day he died thanks to their barbaric treatment of the white races.
The yanks should have A bombed the whole lot of them when they had the chance.
Men, women and children they are evil through and through.

Yuyutsu, "It may seem a mistake from your private point of view,..."

No, that is not what I said at all.

You yourself are unhappy with Australian culture and so on, as you have argued in this thread, and that is what I observed. That being so, you have made it obvious that there is a miss-match between your expectations, world views and values and what Australians had to offer.

Because there is that miss-match in your case I have asked you specifically what Australia could do to ensure it doesn't happen again in the future. Who better to design the sieve than someone such as yourself who has so little to report that is good about Australia?

Chriss,

This is in no way intended as a negation of your father's experiences under the Japanese but I had friends, now deceased, who owed their survival as POWs to the kindness of Japanese soldiers who were their guards on the Burma railway.
These Japanese soldiers shared their rations and medicines with prisoners, they were a minority of course but they and others like them existed, so neither they nor their families deserve to be wiped out.

Suggested reading: "Small Man of Nanotaki", about a Japanese interpreter who risked his life to aid Allied POWs in Hong Kong for at least two years.

Is Mise,
If you want to love them do so, it is a free country but I remember what they did to the Koreans and the Southern Russians. Sooner or later they will be wiped out by the Chinese or North Koreans. I wait that day.

Chriss,

I neither love nor hate them, I'm merely pointing out that some of them acted with humanity towards their prisoners.

I well know what they did in China and Korea, but it is also a matter of record that some of Japan's prison guards were Koreans; I also had the experience of playing volley ball one day when one of the Katcoms (Koreans [soldiers] attached to the Commonwealth [forces]) got involved in a fight with an Australian and screamed out at him "I've whipped better Australians than you".
Under the protection of our Officers he was removed from harm's way.
We later heard that he'd been shot after his return to Korean command.

Dear OnTheBeach,

Thank you for your concerns.

Be assured that I am very happy in my personal life in Australia.

I am grateful to Australia for giving me refuge as I had to leave my place of origin, even though it did so for its own considerations. I was never officially considered a refugee, but that's how I see myself.

Whatever I'm unhappy with, is common to all humanity. This includes elements of the Western culture which unfortunately and stupidly everyone else wants to imitate. On a personal level, however, I was quite successfully able to create an environment around me where I can avoid most things I don't like: the first and easiest step being not having a TV (fortunately there's no law in Australia which forces you to have or watch one!).

When I chose Australia, I was looking for a place that does not exist, not in our times anyway. I was fascinated that Australia was still relatively behind, technologically, so I perceived it as a bastion of simplicity and common-sense, but after I arrived I was disappointed to see that this is fast changing, that the lure of the Western false-paradise has not skipped this continent.

However, I am not aware of any other place in the world that would match my expectations, views and values.

What I present on these pages are my moral concerns, rather than personal day-to-day difficulties: as Australia is considered a democracy, where whatever it does is supposedly in my name, it is my concern that if I allow Australia to act immorally, that also makes me personality guilty. The same can be said about any democracy, and in fact, one can argue even in a dictatorship, when one fails to attempt to uprise against an immoral dictator.

The points I present are simple: it is wrong to rule over others without their consent. It is wrong to hog a whole continent for just one culture. It is wrong to attempt to protect those unwilling to be protected by you. Should I accept this, would make me immoral myself.