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Apr. 25th, 2005

  • 10:49 PM
naanima: (id - lady_silver)
The whole China-Japan situation makes me angry and very close to hating people. It isn't pretty, it isn't nice, and it is too damn complicated for people to throw mud in any direction. But I am Chinese, and I'd be lying if I said the whole situation isn't getting to me. It is all nice to say that you can't live in the past, that you have to move on, but you can't do either when the past is not even acknowledged. So, stop making damn judgements about China when you don't have relatives who still remember the Japanese occupation. Don't make damn snipe comments about the past actions of the Chinese government when, at the present time, it is the Chinese people who are angry. And for damn sake don't compare the China-Japan situation to Germany and its treatment of the Holocaust. Japan have not acknowledged the actions of its own army during WW2. Several generations of Japanese does not know their own history because their government decided to delete a section of their history. There are people in China, in Korea, in Thailand, hell, in most of the South East Asian countries who does remember. So, please, don't make a damn judgement when all you know is that 'Japan did some bad things to other Asians during WW2.'

I'm so sick of the people who don't know anything, who have no personal investment, being all high and mighty. Forgiveness does not come from you. So, back off.

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[identity profile] naanima.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 28th, 2005 12:48 am (UTC)
I don't mention Japan in any way or form when visiting the grandparents, or talking to them on the phone, this include anime, manga, or wanting to learn Japanese to make the reading/listening experience easier. It is just one of those things you are very careful about. So, yes, sensibility here too.

I try not to say anything as I'm not familiar with the whole thing, but from a general glance I have to admit I'm with you on this one.
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[identity profile] issen4.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 28th, 2005 04:03 am (UTC)
Oh, for us grandchildren, we can't really help mentioning Japan in a somewhat neutral context (I think their TV's a Japanese brand, and grandpa has no objections to Japanese cars), but I'm trying to avoid situations where I might find myself saying "Japanese and Japanese anime are so COOL!" and the like in their presence. My grandparents are somewhat mellow about the whole experience, though I think it's partly because they know the grandchildren (and lots of the younger generation) have an unholy obsession with things Japanese: TVs, (cars?), digital cameras, pop stars, food, anime, language, video games...

So they are overindulgent with the grandchildren, and refrain from the "DIE DIE DIE JAPAN DIE" rant. It's the least we can do, not to fangirl anime and speak fangirl Japanese in front of them (actually, they think that anime is only for three-year-olds). I admire their strength, actually. When they heard about the textbook, their reaction was like: "Oh, those poor children, they don't know the truth, they're going to be mocked when they talk to a foreigner..."

My grandparents are kind of cool.

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