I have to agree with the part "average Japanese person is no more warlike than your average Chinese or Westerner."
However, I also have Japanese crying out loud about their "lost" in WWII more so than Chinese & Korean. Simple example, Name one movie on big screen about Chinese & Korean express their sorrow history towards WWII that you remember seeing and yet you can find planty movies about Japanese being suffered. Trust me, movies are not jsut the only example i can bring. Not to forget meantion Japanese actually trying not to teach WWII in school. Japanese seems like trying to let remind everyone REMEMBER their lost but forget their own faults.
You also have to remember, Communist Chinese inhumanity act towards Tibet that is still consider "internal affair". No matter how bad Tibetian or Mongolian they try to break the bond, in history, there were part of Chinese once apond of time. Same as Communist Chinese with Taiwanese issue, is also "internal affair". You don't see China bossy over India or pakistan by being neighbor. Japanese tried to Conquer over China & Korean is nothing "internal" about. Both shows inhumanity, but intension were totally different. Communists were "force to bond", the Japanese were "conquer for lust".
Japanese did later also became victim of the war, but that doesn't mean Japanese have done nothing wrong for other not to talk about.
BTW I am an American of Chinese descent, there are histories i just can't forget about. Usually I learn not to speak out, until someone brought it up.
Chinese attitude always has been: You slap my face I don't say "Ouch" or fight back doesn't mean I am not hurt. Just don't pissed me off farther force me to fight you.
I must admit Japanese produce better product, which I buy a lot. If Chinese bad good stuff I won't mind burn my hard earn money to support ppl who trying hard. History and Business are two seperate thing.
that is just a total lie my frine,
sorry to sound as one on the offencive,
but you must verse your selfe in the history of the "gloriour center of the world"
neither tibet or mongolia have ever been part of china, untill the collapse of the manchurian empire, manchus being nomads akin to your amriecan natives,
even then these areas were not under chinese control till 1950 or so,
the area that the chinese poeple can freely inhabit had increased 2 times or more in 80 years, they have gained great areas of land to colonise,
manchuria, east turkmenistan tibet and its protectorate kingdoms, ( being about 3 times the size of tibet shown on the map) inner mongolia,
and taiwan, which was till very recently inhabited in the mijority by the native peoples,
all south east asian nations have large colonial chinese populations these populations totaly dominate the economy and are loyal to the chinese ethnic entity,
as chinese, for the most part nar not centered on the idea of a nation but on the idea of a homogeinus chinese society,
chinese have never succeeeded in invading another nation,
not becuiase they never wished to but becuase they constantly failed,
mainly due to the domination of their lands by more militarly advanced nomad peoples,
they have tried many times to bring control by force, but never with luck ,
however they have always suceeeded with guile where force did not, buy trade, and immergration they now control most of asia,
now, other thing, chines epopele are nto at all communist, and haveing stayed there for some months ill say they are no different than chinese form noncommunist nations, (while russians , mongoilans, and other soviet poepls seem to be realy buggered up by communisim!! :O.. different way of thinking)
i didnt see anyhting in china that resembled communisim,
or any ppearence in a desire to spread the "revolution"
or even a basic understanding of what communisim should be,
chinese culture is buy nature capatilist, and communisim goes against their ideals,
that being said,
i didnt ee and military presence, or any degree of good organisation among the police or military or any organised controls,
compared to say russia china is a very safe place, with little buraucracy.
and little or no military presence, (cant say for the non chinaese areas though, but they are sparsly populated)
however i ave to say i found many chinese to be good people and friendly,
the younger ppeopel aspecialy were good, and the average person being honest and very helpful, aspecialy in the smaller cities,
there appears a marked difference between the older and the younger chinese in mentality though and this is very obvous to the eye..
well anyway, thats china,
still it amazes me to hear you chaps lark on about the "red terror" and evil communists,
when you know nothing atall aboutt them ,
i would understand if a czech or a east german, or romanian would say such things, but an amecian , it is humorus,
and losing the vietnam war ? hahahah
comeone, what war, it was an occupation,
you were trying to force political ideal on poeple while others tried to at the same time,
but it was hardly a way, more a ongoing revolution,
the war happened after you guys bailed out, and the north vietnamese rolled in,
and if you had defeated the nva and crushed the "evil mommas apple pie hatin reds" what would have you done?
maintained the evil criminal dictatorship you had in place?
to exploite the poeple, ?
the communists could do that
remember 3-4 vietnamese died in the war, that was perpetuated by your government to prop up a a criminal system, against another criminal system,
why not just let them do it them selves
well thats my rant,
oh and id like to see onday a chinese based company make "chinese knives" for the chines emarket, id have no problem with that,
paul chen dosnt coulnt, as in the end his products are made to sell to the u.s. and the west,, and so the styles are flavored but this market.
