I understand you're trying to be PC and all, but for the benefit of other readers, the grandparent poster was referring to the fact that lots of embedded develo

I understand you're trying to be PC and all, but for the benefit of other readers, the grandparent poster was referring to the fact that lots of embedded development is done in Japan, but the software programmers are paid and respected less than "real engineers." That's just the well-documented culture there.