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I think that in an ideal world there should be no difference in our attitude towards these diff cultures ... BUT comparing the Inuits to the Japanese whaling (or even norwegians) is like comparing apples and .... grapes!

The Japanese whaling fleet are 'harvesting' from all over the international waters - many thousands of miles from home in areas they could never have reached in traditional vessels. AND Japanese have plenty of other things to eat.

From my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) - Inuits are taking small numbers, close to home and they have few other protein sources. Maybe we (international community) should work on that...

It's also true what was posted previously -by  dunno who.

- having spent most of the past 3.5 yrs in Japan - I can vouch that most Japanese are not even the remotest bit interested in eating whale or dolphin meat. Most people abhor the idea - apart from a small number of 'war nostalgics'.

But these folk - as the elders - have political clout in Japan where tradition - is sacred. So they paint whale consumption as an important tradition when it is simply not the case.

Japanese media is also to blame - they invariably swallow and disseminate whatever lies the government feeds them. Resulting in the regular Japanese Joe-blo on the street having no/little awareness of what is really going on...