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[JezzaYouBeauty!!]

I think....this link...is related...to racism....in Japan...and my thread about Japan culture...well really.....'all honourable and great, but in the end , not good'........and 'history.

Here it is:

http://www.kimsoft.com/2003/kanto-1923-massacre.htm

If you read it already....I think xenophobia....would be a fairly befitting word...along with evil..and other words.

I love finding out new stuff I don't know....

But geez...I did spend a year in Korea logically explaining to anti-japanese koreans that Koreans have done bad too (as all nations have...and are doing now), and it is all in the past......

But 'GreatHolyOneAbove'damn'!!.....what's with Japan?!!.....I mean....BLEEP!!.THEY'VE BEEN BAD!....just to be pure and simple about it

These are interesting ones too.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_War_Atrocities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_Point_of_View

This thread is not to......hate japan or something. I am just feeling the culture, mixed with the whole racism thing.......mixed with the history are all a bit intertwined somehow.

Pretty full-on stuff though

[JezzaYouBeauty!!]

sorry.......for the third link given in my opening post ............I meant to do this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Japanese_war_crimes

[hip-hop boy78]

Maybe you should post this up on the Korean Jobs Forum. Start some interesting debate over there. I'm currently teaching in Korea so find this article quite interesting.

[malcoml]

I have some fairly straight forward answers for why Japanese were so terrible in regards to war crimes. I'm currently studying an Organisational Behaviour subject and reading some very interesting research on Japanese people.
A large survey was conducted with pictures of peoples faces, this was done to American adults and Japanese adults. People were asked to describe the emotion on the face. Six faces were shown, Americans scored between 90-97% correct response rate on each face. The Japanese scored a 70% correct response rate for the happy face but the overally correct response rate was, wait for it.... 27% average for other faces.
Based on this research it would appear that the average Japanese person has trouble reading emotions, perhapes this it partially why they were so cruel in war, they just didn't realise people were upset.

[JezzaYouBeauty!!]

Yes...interesting one Malcolm. In the truthfully-based movie, 'Nuremburg', a guy is seeking the essence of evil, by questioning all the Nazi war criminals. He comes up with an answer that it is simply a total lack of empathy for other human beings. Something like that.

With Japan, it definately has something to do with culture of non-emotion and cold mindedness (or 'no mind' as Bushido dictates).....which stems from the old samurai culture possibly.

I do like my history. Docos, books, all that. It seems to me that in the last century anyway, the Nazis, the Japanese and the Khmer Rouge top my list for OVERWHELMING cruelty on a mass scale.

I think ethnocentric views, racism and zenophobia are possibly more prevalent in japan than in many countries.....

That is a worry....considering the EXTENT and SUBSTANCE of bad stuff the JAPANESE were responsible for in the past century.

That's all.

[malcoml]

Thank you for those websites Jezza, I think every Japanese school child should be forced to read through this, as it is only from our mistakes can we learn what not to do in the future.

[bzakka]

in the west..... most people have cushy.... lives.....
so they dont realize..... that...... sorry i�ll stop that.


uh yeah so most people think that life elsewhere is like life in the states or canada and dont realize that racism is like a rampant world-wide problem. you think it�s bad in japan? hell no man you should try living in peru for a while and ask them what they think of chileans and bolivians. not to mention blacks. the same liberal standards of overt toleration just dont apply to other places. it sucks.