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[khyber]

gmat:
the point rap. raised was about nationalistic tendencies in Asian countries. I wasn't discussing the japanese car incident specifically; just a general guess.

Or do you think that the Cambodians were taught racial hatred of Thais?
no, at most just sensitive about their royal family.

It's conjecture and meaningless....

[Rock]

I hate to speak up on this topic, but has anyone here ever read the novel by Michael Crighton(?) called 'Rising Sun?'

Well, there's a lot of protesting to be done in light of Japan's lack of restraint/immoral actions, both past and present. But twist this around and think of it in terms of China, too.

I'd be careful of China, because they can be even worse. For these reasons I don't sympathize with them. In regards to Korea, these protests may even hurt their economy more, and lead to further North Korean antagonism with the U.S.

I heard one Korea lady tell me, "China said to America that 'they'd better not interfere with Taiwan.' Is this because America is bound by an agreement with Taiwan to defend it if China attacks, or is this because she thinks America wants to interfere?

[Adam J]

Taiwan vs. Normandy:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/taiwan-d-day.htm

CNN coverage:

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/china.taiwan/

[Cthulhu]

At one time foreign cars in Korea suffered the same thing--during the so-called IMF crisis I believe. Mostly vandalism in that case. I also remember people making a big show of destroying a Lada in Toronto as a public spectacle during the 80's. Of course, neither of these cases involved the occupant of the car being in it when it happened, which makes this a little more serious.

But in general I think every nation does it for one reason or another--as others have said, that's nationalism for you. And cars are such an easy target.

[toomuchtime]

[Cthulhu]

toomuchtime wrote:

[mindmetoo]

[Summer Wine]

I sometimes wonder about what will happen in the future. If Chinese people have this attitude now when they are not top of the heap. How will they behave when they reach there.

The argument about isolationist tendancies of the past determining the percentage of aggressive actions in the future has already been disproved by the US. Saw some photo's of what chinese authorities do to thier own people, sure don't want them to do it to me or mine.

[JongnoGuru]

Good morning. It is our pleasure to welcome all of you flying with us today to the Chinese Century.

As we expect a fair degree of turbulence ahead, the Guru asks that all passengers please remain seated with their seatbelts fastened for the remainder of our flight.

Now please sit back, enjoy the in-flight entertainment, and we'll do our best to ensure that when the end comes, it'll be fast and painless.

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[billybrobby]

Yeah, I remember back in 1989 or so watching a guy smash up a Toyota with a baseball bat on the news. As a kid I thought it was awesome, but then later thinking back it was a really ugly scene.

Ah, 1989, we thought the Japanese would rule the world, didn't we?

Little did we know they'd be spending the next decade mired in recession. Now its China's turn to be the big bad Asian economic boogie-man. Of course China in 2005 and Japan in 1980 are 2 entirely different things, but something tells me the next century won't belong to the China.

Maybe its my typical American smugness, but I just think the Chinese government is too stupid and slow to bring their economy to the top. Lord, I hope so anyways. At least the Japanese were nominally democratic. If those godless commies rule the world, I'm moving to Mars. There's my little bit of ugly nationalism.

[mithridates]

I think the difference though is that China only has to bring its individual GDP up to one quarter that of the US to equal it. Japan had way too few people to compete with the States.

[JongnoGuru]

[trigger123]

[JongnoGuru]

When a government is prepared to send in the military to crush much larger though peaceful demonstrations like the one in Tiananmen Square, yet won't intercede when smaller and extremely violent gangs of protestors vandalise, destroy and threaten foreign property and lives until after the damage is done (or even offer an apology & a promise not to let it happen again).... what are we to call such a government? "Inept" or "incapable" they're certainly not. I'd think "thuggish" and whatever you might get when you combine the terms "nationalist" und "sozialist" would be closer to the mark.

[plato's republic]

england vs. germany Euro 96. semi-final, england lost on penalties, fans went on the rampage.