imagine ur father or grandfather being dragged out and have his head chopped off by a samurai sword just for fun.
Except most chinese didnt have a grandfather who died in world war 2, most of the snively contemptuous hatefilled bigots have no connection to the war but a distant relative.
our economy now is pretty much capitalist, and the government is becoming more liberal.
Except for you know, the crippling police state, the dissappearances and exicutions of political rivals, the total lack of freedom of speech of anything which isnt pro-communist.
At least our history books tell the truth.
Likely quote from a chinese textbook:
"In the 50's the glorious leader Mao led the Chinese people to a new age of a chinese communist utopia, even today China is the best country in the world, full of love and peace and unity, there is hardly any crime or anything, only criminals are evil people, political opposition are criminals to, they want to bring down our great society, tibet is a part of china, so the chinese valiantly "liberated" tibet and welcomed her eager people into the chinese nation, Taiwan is a rogue province, who spat at china and escaped, planning to bring down the rest of the nation."
Granted im taking alot of liberties with this but my point still stands, If china, one of the most oppressive communist regimes ever isnt distorting history to suit their communist propaganda then ill walk down a london main street naked, with a heavy rucksack of weights for 20 miles.
and the reason why i think the government should compensate for the rapes is because if i am no mistaken those girls were foreign exchange students, who came on the government's invitation. but if they were not then of course they do not have the obligation to do so
No nation anywhere is required to pay up compensation for an individuals sole actions, this is what civil actions in court are for, for prosecutors to sue the money out from under the defendant.
To assume government are somehow responsible for the acts of individuals acting entirely alone is stupid, unlike in china, people in japan and the west dont belong directly to the state.
If your belief was the case I'de sue you s**tless because some chinese at a take-away i frequented stood and did nothing as i was beaten up just outside their door by one of their drugged up delivery staff.
See the absurdity of your opinion?, good.
lastly i want to say that whatever they do it wont personally affect me, but as a nation we have been insulted and all we want is an apology. THEN we can leave it behind we can live in harmony
As ive said, when china and asia can learn to forgive, Japan can apologise, like how europe put it behind us, and i wish japan would do a grovelling apology just to see how insincere China is about forgiveness.
You said Japan apologised to korea, yet koreans are still hateful little trolls.
Well, a minority anyway.
The thing is Asia cant get along...Its still stuck back in the nationalistic ages of the middle of the last century, its kinda sad and pathetic and alot of folk wished that continent would just grow up.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004
I thought I would copy this link, Nobody can accuse Amnesty international of being bias towards japan, this is an international organization to protect the freedoms of all people from political wrong-doings.
I don't think so...an apology is an apology and i truly do not think our government is looking for a quarrel...i mean..they're not even the ones that are demanding an apology...its just the people
Haha! aww man, the chinese government is taking the peoples misplaced anger and egging it on, dont fool yourself, the chinese government is using this as a political positioning tool.
tibet has been a part of china for nearly a thousand years...what are you talking about...mebbe texas and scotland and wales should all be independent too?
For a start, no it hasnt, tibetans have a distinct culture and language.
Wales was indeed invaded and supressed, but its up to the welsh to decide their independence, unlike in china, if a people want independence enough, they are free to have it.
Scotland united with england with the treaty of union when a
scottish king inherited the english throne along with his Scottish one, as such, Scotland isnt occupied, its a seperate nation within a constitutional monarchial union, we have our own parliament and with one successful referendum for independence were on our own, i doubt tibet has the same freedoms.
As for Texas, well, Texas got its freedom from mexico, and a year or so later, it willingly joined the union, the united states of america...i personally think it was a bit of a sell-out, fighting for your freedom, then giving it to the united states, but again, unlike tibet, it was a texan choice to join.
Since china is anythnig but open with the truth, i forgive you for not knowing the difference between tibet and other countries, but the tibetan revolt shoulda been indicative that the tibetans werent willing to join grand-china.
Hong Kong is part of China now but it is not the same as the rest of China...there we have freedom of speech and we do not have communist policemen looking at our computer screens
Shame about the vast expanses of China and itss people who dont have the liberties you do.
I agree Japan has some issues to address, textbooks and an apology, but its the lesser of two evils, one country is just un-co-operative to its neighbours, the other throws away political opposition into prisons to rot for no reason then opinion.