White balance is not hate speech

I am not a racist.


I am, however, intimidated going to Home Depot in California and being face-to-face with 400 half-starving Mexicans looking at my wife and daughter the way three German shepards look at two steaks.


I am not a racist.


I do realize that the Japanese people are a nasty little tribe.
I married one.    She says the same thing.    And we both adore Japan.
We just accept that they are racists and a nasty little tribe.


I am not a racist.


My background is German.
Germans are not racist.
They simply want everyone’s stuff and will repeatedly kill to get it.


We all say we are not racists and then spend our lives associating with people just like us, living in neighborhoods too expensive for those not like us and educating our children to be just like us.


That is called transfer of culture or something.
Or racism.
If we are honest. Which no one is.


No one is honest because you will have no one to talk to and no one will talk to you.
I’m fine with that.  
That is how I prefer to live.


Back to the Japs that make my cameras.


I love Japan and would live there forever in an instant if I could.
Everything works, they are polite, everything works, no crime, they are polite, everything works.


That’s six reasons I can give you off the top of my head.
I know they look down on me and talk behind my back about me but they are polite about it.
They are a nasty tribe.


I’ve seen it first hand.
I’ve watched the Jap aunties sit around over sushi and tea savaging the relatives, handicapped and Mother Tereasa.   
They do it for sport.    They’ve are brutal and have been practicing for a thousand years.
Ask the Koreans and Chinese.


I wish the Japs had beaten the Germans in World War II.
There wouldn’t be any rude, condescending, headcheese-eating, ham farting Germans bullying Europe.
And hogging the good Yugoslavian beaches or whatever the Jugs are now called.  


The Japanese lost the war but got their revenge with their camera menus.


They do whatever they want with the menus.   
None of it makes sense.
Everytime I pick up a camera and look at the menu I realize the Japs are a nasty tribe.
They are passive-aggressively still fighting the war through their menus.


I’m a data guy.   
I know how to organise data, eliminate redundancy and simplify it.
It’s called top-down logical design.
Pretend you are speaking to a child, idiot or urologist and want to explain something simple to them.


I know menus can be simpler.
There should be 3 modes that hide the unneeded functions rated from very simple to more advanced.
(1) Idiot (2) Moron (3) Government Employee
This would cover most of our needs and the widest audience.


The Japanese give you one menu, which is known as ‘Code Breaker’.
Assuming they are not going to attack Pearl Harbor again this is just cruel.
Like my Jap aunties.


I have resigned myself to never understand the menus.
As I do not understand our smart TV or the TV thing you hold in your hands.
I do understand that the Japanese are a nasty tribe.