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...Afrikaners were persecuted by the richer, more powerful British. He felt the sting growing up on the gold reef east of Johannesburg, the son of a poor white miner who believed he was exploited by English capitalists. Even after Afrikaners won absolute power in 1948, Rudolph continued to feel inferior. Upon being taunted for his poor grammar as a young policeman, he recalls, "I decided it was the last time I would be treated this way by an English-speaker...
Some of the Governors used to say they were inferior in mind and all that kind of stuff. If I had ever said anything like that, no decent black person would have ever voted for me, and I wouldn't blame them, because all those things aren't true...
Unfortunately, not all analyses of America's problems are as sophisticated as Kunihiro's. When Yoshio Sakurauchi, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet, caused a furor in the U.S. two weeks ago by saying that the "root of America's ((trade)) problem lies in the inferior quality of American labor," he was reflecting a condescension toward Americans that many Japanese share...
...offer rewards to employees who buy American-made products. Monsanto, an American chemical company, currently offers $1,000 to every employee who buys a car made in America. The sad part is that the extra $1,000 will probably be spent on servicing an American car that is vastly inferior to its foreign competition...
...growing enmity is not entirely one-sided. Yoshio Sakurauchi, a veteran politician who heads the prestigious but largely ceremonial post of speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, said last week that "the root of the ((trade)) problem lies in the inferior quality of U.S. labor. The American worker doesn't work enough but wants high pay. About one-third can't even read." (In fact, about 15% of the adult work force would be considered functionally illiterate, meaning that they are unable to adequately perform in their job.) Stooping to Sakurauchi's level of discourse, Michigan Senator Donald Riegle...