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Japan on Tuesday(June 21) became the latest member of the US-led "coalition of the willing" to announce its withdrawal from Iraq, bringing to an end Tokyo's biggest and most controversial overseas military deployment since the second world war. We must prepare for an outburst of anti-Japanese rhetoric in the States. We remember the war. We remember internment.Don't say you are Japanese. Tell them you are Scottish. I have used this safely for many years. Scots are mean and drunk etc. but cute and wise, like Scotty from Star Trek. Americans find English critics like Sting annoying, but Scots are meant to be feisty, like the girl in "Brigadoon" or Willie in the "Simpsons". So sound like Scotty when you are discussing the link between driving tank mobiles and the ice caps melting. You can sound like you know what you are talking about. "We need less power, Captain."
Insult the French Mais j'aime la belle France! The French are having a difficult time at the moment in the States and should be an easy target there which you can exploit. They did not support the war in Iraqistan and they should have, as they still owed the US because of D day. Hence no one in America is drinking Champagne. In public.
So let us see, what can we say to put down the French? In 1812, they attacked Russia, but some Americans may see that as positive! They invaded Vietnam and made a pig's bollocks of that...but again some may think "There just like us". They killed a million Muslims in Algeria but, no, we want negative don't we? Sinking the Greenpeace boat....no, this is harder than I thought.
Scotland and France have been allies for centuries and despite France's often lunatic nature and the fact that there are more outright Nazis in France than in Germany, I love the country. It's maybe having lived in Canada where you learn French (and how unpredictable they are) from grade 1. Maybe it is because they are the target of the British "Sun" so called "news" paper "Hop off you Frogs".
Do not remind the Americans who gave them support during the struggle for independence and who gave them the Statue of Liberty?
