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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 01:12 am (UTC)
Ditto. I'm very weary about anything I say in the presence of my older relatives. About the boycotting of Japanese products; I think this have gone too far, in many ways it seem to have gone beyond simple anger, it has began to feel more and more like a popularity contest. And complete agreement on the attack of Japanese citizens. I think it is wrong, and downright sick. You do not go after innocent citizens who knows nothing about the war. In addition, riots againsts Japanese stores in China make me cringe and very shamed. The news about the filipino family make me sad, tired and more than a bit angry. I'm sorry seem so little in this type of situations.

On the point of your grandmother, I belief everything is personal, the fact that your grandmother experienced something favourable and that make her perceive the Japanese as kind than I see no wrong with it. Hell, this is more of a points for the soldier in question. It isn't anyone that can keep rational thoughts in situations like the war.

Koizumi have apologised (a first on the matter of WW2), but as [livejournal.com profile] code_renegade said, the Japanese Foreign Minister have screwed up any chance of, 'let's do a hand shake and move on,' by attacking Chinese text books being biased, that is, talking about the sufferings of the Chinese. You can guess how that went down.

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