HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

The Noodles said:

I AM NOT JAPANESE YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
You can joke around all you want but not when it comes to this.
This is pretty much the same as calling a Jewish person a Nazi.

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The Noodles said:

I AM NOT JAPANESE YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
You can joke around all you want but not when it comes to this.
This is pretty much the same as calling a Jewish person a Nazi.

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venividivicibj said:

Yeah... lets not get into the whole japan vs korea vs china etc etc debates....

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Coxsackie said:

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Anyone from China weigh in on this would be good - I'm curious. Wouldn't there be contrary views? Surely ppl (edit, some/ a reasonable proportion of ppl) know when they're being propaganda-ated

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Pliny said:

Surely ppl (edit, some/ a reasonable proportion of ppl) know when they're being propaganda-ated

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Pliny said:

Anyone from China weigh in on this would be good - I'm curious. Wouldn't there be contrary views? Surely ppl (edit, some/ a reasonable proportion of ppl) know when they're being propaganda-ated

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Coxsackie said:

Having lived in China for seven years and occasionally encountered extraordinary anti-Japanese bigotry from people whom I otherwise had come to respect, I started to notice a pattern. Generally, they were under thirty years of age. I then found out that from about the mid-1990s, it became compulsory for Chinese middle school students to be taught about the Japanese occupation of China during the 30s and 40s - including the infamous Nanjing Massacre, which was re-enacted in a fairly brutal propaganda movie produced specifically for the purpose of school screenings.

Essentially, for the past twenty years, Chinese school students have been brainwashed to hate the Japanese. It's been very effective. They all do. There is no virtually no Chinese person under the age of thirty who does not harbour intense, vitriolic resentment against their neighbour country.

When I encounter this bigotry, I generally respond by asking which country has raped, tortured, starved and enslaved more Chinese people than any other. Of course, the answer I'm given is always "Japan!!!" At which point I say "No, you're wrong. The correct answer is China."

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Coxsackie said:

Having lived in China for seven years and occasionally encountered extraordinary anti-Japanese bigotry from people whom I otherwise had come to respect, I started to notice a pattern. Generally, they were under thirty years of age. I then found out that from about the mid-1990s, it became compulsory for Chinese middle school students to be taught about the Japanese occupation of China during the 30s and 40s - including the infamous Nanjing Massacre, which was re-enacted in a fairly brutal propaganda movie produced specifically for the purpose of school screenings.

Essentially, for the past twenty years, Chinese school students have been brainwashed to hate the Japanese. It's been very effective. They all do. There is no virtually no Chinese person under the age of thirty who does not harbour intense, vitriolic resentment against their neighbour country.

When I encounter this bigotry, I generally respond by asking which country has raped, tortured, starved and enslaved more Chinese people than any other. Of course, the answer I'm given is always "Japan!!!" At which point I say "No, you're wrong. The correct answer is China."

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Coxsackie said:

Spoiler: Actually, let's.

Having lived in China for seven years and occasionally encountered extraordinary anti-Japanese bigotry from people whom I otherwise had come to respect, I started to notice a pattern. Generally, they were under thirty years of age. I then found out that from about the mid-1990s, it became compulsory for Chinese middle school students to be taught about the Japanese occupation of China during the 30s and 40s - including the infamous Nanjing Massacre, which was re-enacted in a fairly brutal propaganda movie produced specifically for the purpose of school screenings.

Essentially, for the past twenty years, Chinese school students have been brainwashed to hate the Japanese. It's been very effective. They all do. There is no virtually no Chinese person under the age of thirty who does not harbour intense, vitriolic resentment against their neighbour country.

When I encounter this bigotry, I generally respond by asking which country has raped, tortured, starved and enslaved more Chinese people than any other. Of course, the answer I'm given is always "Japan!!!" At which point I say "No, you're wrong. The correct answer is China."

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chogall said:

We doing the exact same thing on Nazi Germany though not the current German people.

Japan is an interesting case as they are not acknowledging their war aggression history and there are quite a few prominent figures who openly denies history.

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