Hmm... the japanese (immigration office) are giving golden-handshake to the "nikkei", in the midst of recession, and ask them to never return to work in japan again (ever).
That ... is ... cold-hearted. (well, sebenarnya spanyol pernah membelakukan skema serupa, hanya saja si imigran boleh kembali setelah tiga tahun).
Jadi inget saya punya kenalan, orang argentina keturunan jepang (generasi ke-3), yang sempat mampir ke tempat saya di mexico.
Setelah 3 tahun bekerja sebagai pekerja pabrik di jepang, akhirnya dia memutuskan untuk pulang (tahun lalu). She just couldn't stand the japanese, couldn't stand living there, having hard time to integrate. She said she was happy to leave japan, and back to argentina. Lucu ya, mengingat "etnik"nya. Moreover, according to her, most "mainland" japanese look down on the nikkeis, especially those coming from latin american countries.
Jadi inget, kadang-kadang kalau lagi sempet mikir saya mikir, kayaknya masih panjang waktu bagi asia (timur) untuk bisa seperti western-countries (terutama amerika serikat).
Maksud saya, di tengah-tengah kemajuan pesat asia timur (china dan india khususnya), saya sering beranggapan bahwa "the world is in our hands". This is also a backdrop to my "campaign" '''ditch abrahamic mumbo-jumbos, pick up dharmics'''. Saya pikir kemajuan ekonomi asia-timur itu, akan memudahkan orang-orang indonesia untuk menerima message itu, untuk melakukan "pencarian kembali identitasnya" (not semites, but east-asians), and eventually distance themselves from the so-called "abrahamic mumbo-jumbos".
Tapi kayaknya masih cukup banyak barrier yang harus ditanggulangi. Ya, liat aja berita tentang jepang itu. In general, (east) asian-people are (still) too proud of themselves (their ethnics). The (western) europeans went through bloody years before they finally realized they're one (sampai tercipta mata uang tunggal, uni eropa, dsb).
Apakah asia timur harus melalui proses serupa. Kapan dan bagaimana asia-timur raya bisa diwujudkan?
Salam,
Raka
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