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Why do these topics seem to repeat the same kind of crap.......

well do you agree or not?

I agree SPQR.

IF Japan continues to visit the war shrines and thereby slapping the face of all the asian countries and they keep up their attitude, they are going to become isolated from the rest of Asia.

It worked before because China was communist and closed off but now the rest of Asia is rising and Japan is scared.

I think asia can easily forgive Japan only if they just show a little of humbleness and apology but they refuse to do even that. It's like we're lesser human beings or something and we don't deserve it.

Summarise your point, seems like you're making two separate statements.
Are you asking whether I agree that anti-Korean feelings in Japan exist/are common?
Or whether I agree with you thinking Japanese think white>japanese>asian?
Also which generation are you referring to?

um. i agree and disagree. only because i don't particurly think all japanese have an anti korean sentiment. when i been to japan, i was treated fine. but i hear different stories though.

i think right now, japan is more anti-china than anti-korea because china has the potential to overturn the balance of power in East Asia. and also because they've always seen as inferior human beings.

You mean the general public are anti-chinese or are you referring to politics/the government?

government/politics.

i dont think the general population even knows enough history to know why China and Korea have some beef against their country.

But there is a tendency amongst the general population to look down on Chinese but I don't think its any serious.

If.....well, more like when, China passes the US and becomes the next superpower I can see Japan kissing China's @$$ too.......it's always about the money

didn't Japan respect China for most of its history?

and no, if China succeeds in tipping the world balance in power, it won't accept Japan back. not unless they show some sort of humbleness and admit to what happened.

i never said all Japanese held this mindset... also, not everyone who holds this mindset is a bad person... i know this mindset was strong at the end of WW2... i do not know if its decreased or not... all i know is, it is shameful to be Korean in Japan... children are taught to look down on Korea... schools even take their kids on field trips to compare how much better it is in Japan compared to Korea...

but if you look at it from the other way around. korea is taught to hate on japan a lot too.

Yes but what I mean is the kind of asskissing that is happening between Japan and the US is likely to happen between Japan and China once China become the superpower therefore Japan would probably be very humble and apologetic etc towards China at that point.

hmm, i don't think so. Japanese will never @$$ kiss Chinese ever again because even if they want to, they'd be too ashamed to. China would be quick to forgive Japan though if they just showed the slightest bit of respect. We are hot-tempered people but we also forgive easily. There was an actual agreement amongst Chinese and Japanese business people in the 80's that neither side would bring up history and it worked. However, nowadays, China gives all its contracts to the EU to spite Japan.

And besides, most Japanese don't even know how much China has developed since then. When they visit China, they just go to the temples or the sightseeing places.



well, it must be very hurtful to korean women that the japanese still haven't acknowledged the existence of the korean comfort women.

I don't think Koizumi has any sense, he'll just suck up to whoever he needs to. Currently he is being an utter prick towards Japan's asian counterparts, the whole issue needs sorting out once and for all instead of him continuing to rub their noses in it

seriously, the guy is insane. He's fu-king over his own people as well. The Japanese have been competing for high speed train projects and airplane projects for years and after China got pissed off cause of the Yakasuni shrine visits, they just said, "fu-k you, we'll give these contracts to the EU."

So yah, 250 airbuses from France. And the high speed train project from Beijing to Shanghai goes to France as well.

That's a couple of hundred billion dollars lost right there.

We would have gladly given the projects to Japan because Chinese in general prefer and like Japanese design better. But their PM just had to be a d!ck.

At times I think Koizumi needs a sodding brain transplant

there is a minimum of 360,000 people who believe in the White > Japanese > Asian hierarchy in Japan and the sales are still rising... those are the people im refering to... the ones who actually started to believe Koreans were inferior while they were on their field trip to Korea.

^
Is that a random figure?

i think maybe there is a larger conspiracy. perhaps someone is persuading him to behave this way?

no... it is the number of copies of "Hate the Korean Wave" sold so far.

lol such as......


So its from where?

the number of copies of "Hate the Korean Wave" sold so far.

That's hardly reliable. I'd buy one and I'm not anti-Korean

the US

I don't find that likely, I find his stupidity more likely.

the US doesn't want a united East Asia. Can you imagine East Asia consisting of the economic might of China, Japan and South Korea? Those 3 countries have the power to kick the EU's @$$ and possibly threaten the US.

why would you support those racists?

Interested to see what it says. It's quite likely that a lot of copies were sold due to the media attention and the curiosity of people.

^highly unlikely... its been selling well for the last three months

do you think the recent rise in anti-Korean sentiment is a backlash due to the Japanese > Korean mindset?

http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/Comics%...d%20Koreans.htm

they're scared that their days of dominance in east asia are over. the book just serves as a comfort thing.

thats what i think

I don't think the whole anti-Japanese crap over Dokdo helped
Very few people are actually of the mindset that Japanese>Korean.
I know at least two of my friends bought that book, meant to ask them to buy me a copy.

i know all about the Japanese education system.
for the past 50 years... Koreans living in Japanese have been looked down on by fellow students and treated unfairly by their teachers... these kids have now grown up and control Japan... obviously they're gonna hide it... there is no reason for them to suddenly change... and now, books that reinforce Korean inferiority are runaway bestsellers comforting the newer generations...

^ For the past godknows how long pretty much all non-Japanese have been looked down on by Japanese, happens to some mixed Japanese, it's not just happening to Koreans, there are a number of xenophobic people in Japan. The same thing happens in Korea in schools
Thankfully the younger generation doesn't seem to be so bad, obviously there will still be a number of that mindset due to the older generations and the way they were brought up, it can't suddenly all change

even white people?

Yes, even half Japanese half white kids....in fact they probably get it worse

SPQR: here is good site to discuss this kind of crap www.occidentalism.org
I think the book you are talking about is kenkanryu, if you search on that site you will find what you are lookin for.

uh, i dont think thats true. the japanese in my high school seemed to love the whites. there are lots of half-white japanese celebrities in japan. i think as a whole, they like them.

Must just depend then because I know several people who hated school in Japan due to the fact that they got picked on so much for being half white.
Hopefully that's just a sign that times are changing, maybe now it's not so bad but then I should think that applies to most non-Japanese

ok. one final question.

http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/Comics%...d%20Koreans.htm

do you, your Japanese friends, or the Japanese who buy this book, in general, support the contents of this book?

Being half, you'll find people that love you and people that hate you because of it.

^ Seems to be more beneficial than detrimental most of the time though.


Me and my friends no.
The Japanese in general, I would imagine most don't but there will be a number that do.
The dangerous thing about such a book is the way history is taught in Japan, there are areas that aren't delved into, books like these can warp young minds.

then why did both your friends get a copy? you said you wanted your friends to get you a copy... wouldn't they tell you how the book was full of lies and that they wasted their 10$(converted to Yen)?

And you would know how?

This must be like the hundredth time I've wrote this, I'm half Japanese half Korean.

nvm

And people can obviously tell you're a halfie?

No, but it's rarely had a detrimental effect when the subject has come up.


I have several friends in Japan, why wouldn't more than one buy a copy?
How would it be a waste of money if the point in buying it was to see what it said?