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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4347)	6/5/2001 9:45:54 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Hmmm. "Getting even." I don't know as much about Asian history as I should. I do know that the Germans started WWII to "get even" for WWI and wound up destroying their country. Not sure if you know that WWI was not fought on German soil - I think none of it was. WWII made up for it. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were really, really bad. But I have friends whose parents fought in the Pacific Theater of WWII, and felt that the bombing probably saved their lives. The Japanese were implacable fighters. The only thing I think I know about Japan I think I learned from reading Yukio Mishima novels and watching Kurosawa movies, unfortunately. Not sure how bad that is. You really can learn a lot about American ideology by watching movies - I'd suggest John Wayne, maybe Clint Eastwood. I suspect that the hostility the Chinese and Koreans feel towards the Japanese can be explained thus (CobaltBlue's psychotherapy booth, a nickle a consultation): 1. The Japanese were really evil before and during WWII (Rape of Nanking, Korean "comfort women" - that phrase make me violently ill) and they have never accepted responsibility nor apologized. 2. The Japanese are very insular (no pun intended!) and condescending towards other nationalities. We get that too. I will digress, but after I finish this outline. See below. They treat non-Japanese very badly. 3. Projection. This is where the psychoanalysis comes in. If the Chines feel hostile towards the Japanese, you tell yourself that it's really them who are hostile towards you. I really don't think the Japanese have the smallest thought of rearming and starting WWIII. 25% of the population is over 60! The women don't even reproduce anymore! What is the need? On the other hand, China and Korea both have expanding populations. _________________________ OK, here is the digression. I went to school with a woman who was in Japan not long ago as a translator. She had a bad reaction to a medication she was taking and her brain was poisoned. The Japanese doctors refused to treat foreign devils and the damage is permanent and she is permanently disabled. This story was told to me by her former husband, who saw her a couple of years ago after she came back. I know how they feel about blacks - I've seen the racist stuff - and I think they feel the same way about whites, only less. On the other hand, Maxine Hong Kingston, an American writer - do I have to say Chinese-American? - writes that Chinese look down on whites, say we are ugly, stupid, and smell bad.