A “culture of looking down on Korea” pervaded Japan… The mindset behind the massacre was “to create an enemy outside, eliminate it, and maintain order”
Thing is, Japan kinda looks down on every single country in Asia. Major complex going on there.
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It is true but Chinese should know their attitude first🤣
Shiningc00 on
They ranked them 5th in 1939, behind 4th themselves:
> the Japanization effort in the late colonial period provided an ideological underpinning for a kinder, gentler view of Koreans as people akin to younger siblings: inevitably inferior, perhaps, but educable and
almost lovable as well. A 1939 survey asked Japanese students to rank in order of preference fi fteen peoples: Koreans ranked fifth, behind Japanese themselves; two Axis allies, Germans and Italians; and another colonized people, Manchurians (Tei 1995:3).
– Zainichi, diasporic nationalism and post colonial identity
larana1192 on
Who the fuck give shit about Tokyo Shinbun lol, they’re leftist trash paper
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It’s funny because Koreans do the exact same thing, despite crying about the colonization period all the time. It’s all about “muh 35 yrs!!!” but then they’ll dismiss literally centuries of European colonization so they can suck up to white people and kick Southeast Asians and Africans under the bus.
r31ya on
country [a] thinks they are better than the other country in the region.
That’s just how nationalism teaching goes. Country with high nationalism like, China, Korea, and japan all have their own version of this mindset
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Thing is, Japan kinda looks down on every single country in Asia. Major complex going on there.
It is true but Chinese should know their attitude first🤣
They ranked them 5th in 1939, behind 4th themselves:
> the Japanization effort in the late colonial period provided an ideological underpinning for a kinder, gentler view of Koreans as people akin to younger siblings: inevitably inferior, perhaps, but educable and
almost lovable as well. A 1939 survey asked Japanese students to rank in order of preference fi fteen peoples: Koreans ranked fifth, behind Japanese themselves; two Axis allies, Germans and Italians; and another colonized people, Manchurians (Tei 1995:3).
– Zainichi, diasporic nationalism and post colonial identity
Who the fuck give shit about Tokyo Shinbun lol, they’re leftist trash paper
It’s funny because Koreans do the exact same thing, despite crying about the colonization period all the time. It’s all about “muh 35 yrs!!!” but then they’ll dismiss literally centuries of European colonization so they can suck up to white people and kick Southeast Asians and Africans under the bus.
country [a] thinks they are better than the other country in the region.
That’s just how nationalism teaching goes. Country with high nationalism like, China, Korea, and japan all have their own version of this mindset