Cambodian Festival Chaos- Another Good Reason to Justify Xenophobia
Y oyogi Park's Spring Culture Festival Series has been quite violent this year. There were three fights and several small skirmishes at the Cambodian festival this weekend. The biggest involved six men beating a Kurdish national for reasons that vary based on whom you asked. "You cannot treat my people like this!" were the only English words, Kamal Jazeeri kept repeating after he was accused of public masturbation. While Japanese men publicly masturbating, often to completion on crowded trains is tolerated or ignored, foreign men doing it in a festival atmosphere outdoors, is not. These cultural differences are usually not clearly explained to new immigrants. Kamal, now residing in Kawaguchi, kept shouting as a crowd of Japanese and Cambodian goons took cheap shots at him, and even kicked him in the head as he was on the ground. Kamal was later detained for his own safety and quietly released outside of town. The flowing alcohol, unveiled Japanese women in swi
