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Another class, Oriental Cookery, as I believe it was then called, was
pretty funny.  The instructor, a capable Chinese guy, was responsible
for teaching us the fundamentals of both Chinese <em>and</em> Japanese
cooking.  The Chinese portion of the class was terrific.  When it came
time to fill us in on the tastes of Japan, however, our teacher was
more interested in giving us an extended lecture on the Rape of
Nanking.  His loathing of the Japanese was consuming.  In between
describing the bayonetting of women, children and babies in World War
II, he'd point at a poster of a sushi/sashimi presentation on the
wall, and say in his heavily accented English, "That a raw a fish.
You wanna eat that?  Hah!  Japanese <em>shit</em>!"  Then he'd go back
into his dissertation on forced labor, mass executions, enslavement,
hinting darkly that Japan would pay, sooner or later, for what it had
done to his country.

Anthony Bourdain, <cite>Kitchen
		   Confidential</cite>, p. 97-98

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