On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:54:50 +0300, Markku Grönroos
wrote:
>
>"Alan S" kirjoitti
>viestissä:m4qb231ffrsotusmln91vt0t9tou75m992@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:42:28 +0100, The Reid
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:50:40 -0400, Dave Smith
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nuts to that. We
>>>>should be celebrating the victory over Japan and its atrocious behaviour
>>>>throughout the war.
>>>
>>>and before. They still haven't quite got the idea that foreigners are
>>>equal.
>>
>> They haven't even got the idea that those Japanese whose
>> ancestors have been in Japan for countless generations - but
>> whose original ancestors were Korean - are equal.
>>
>Aren't European attitudes on gypsies a bit similar? Ozis have been very
>brutal towards the original Australians: first they stole their lands and
>then they dumped them to reservations to drink fire water.
Not quite.
I suspect you're thinking of the USA; our lot aren't on
reservations (most are part of the wider community); some of
those that live in the tribal lands do have addiction
problems, but more often to beer or petrol-sniffing than
"fire-water".
It's a sad subject, and not one I joke about a lot. Every
modern nation has similar stories in their history; whether
they are Lapplanders, Sioux, Indians in the Brazilian
rainforest, Inuits, Tibetans...the list goes on. We can only
change the future.
But to equate the problems of those conquered peoples to the
extreme racism and feudal psyche of the Japanese is sheer
nonsense. I still find forgiveness for what they did over 60
years ago difficult. And I wasn't even born when they did
it. The reason I find it hard is the total lack of any
indication that their national will would not allow it to
happen again.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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