On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Rich Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, R E Sieber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Its basic stance is that its actions are acceptable because they are > legal, one that has > > angered burakumin leaders. > > > > So should we build map products that always force collection of metadata > and > > contextual information? > > This is a freaky and complicated issue. The concerns of the Burakumin > are real and tragic. > I am a supporter of contextual information in research/map artifacts, but the problem has next to nothing to do with Google, and everything to do with the fact that the Japanese still observe barukumin descendants as a lower class. Thus, the REAL tragedy is that the caste system has not been abolished.
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