CG
08-25-05, - 01:12 PM
No offense, but your uncle was the enemy and America does not only have Caucasians enlisted...
True, war brings out the worst in people, racism being but one of them, By the way he was Canadian.
The Japanese couldn't possibly be logically talking about race, were they were referring to Americans on the whole.
There were talking about White people, as a whole.
Also, they held themselves superior to the Chinese as well. China is their closest cousin, yet they distinguished that civilization (not race – by your definition) as inferior...
True, the civilization came in question but it was also the people - the Chinese.
It is no worst than the Bahamas saying it is the greatest little nation in the world... Do you think the Haitians think we are racist?
I hope not but I have heard some Bahamains suggest that we might be.
The Japanese did not go the extra mile and oppress the Chinese.
You need to study Japan's invasion of China. (Read casualobservers post.)
(Europeans claimed that Africans themselves had slaves.
African did have slaves - not on the style, or cruelty, of the Whites but they did and still do. According to the UN slavery is alive and well in Africa. One of the biggest forms is forcing women into prostitution (these women are owned!) Another for is kidnaping young boys to fight in the Armies.
This was their propaganda to justify their evil work.
Actually, at the time the Whites did not see what they were doing as evil. Why should they have justified it?
The term "servant" was deliberately replaced with "slave".
I'll agree the two terms got confused but a servant who is held against his will is still a slave.
A family dept was often paid off with labor. This was also practiced in China.)
That is called Indentured Servitude. It was popular all over the world.
If China is a separate race from Japan, then The Bahamas is a separate race from America.
It is the people within the country that differ.
We generally see all Americans in a certain light. As a group of people, they are different from us. I dare say that we do not have a lot of the problems that they have. Why adopt some of them?
Why indeed? but we do!
By the way, after several years of learning of that civilization (Japan) from an intimate perspective, I have concluded and verified that they are not racist.
Knowing a few people from that country I would say that the are now, not a racist as they once were.
They see things very different from the west.
Yes, indeed they do.
They were however, very particular with preserving blood lines. Some clans could not interbreed with others. It was mainly a "class" thing. (The same is still so in India.) Several decades ago, it was unthinkable to assimilate a foreigner.
You call that a class thing. Perhaps you are right but take India. An "untouchable" (Harijan) often has a darker skin than a Brahman (highest caste). Maybe sometimes when we speak of race, we really mean "class." Unfortunately, sometimes one has to be of a particular color to be in a particular class. I am glad to see that is not as much a "thing" these days.
It was Americans who insisted that Tiger not call himself Asian...
Are you talking about Tiger Woods? I thought he called himself Black?
Do you think his family in Asia saw him as anything else?
Can't say.
America is a very sick place from many perspectives. So is Europe.
Most places are sick in many perspectives.
One good thing about living in The Bahamas is that if you want to, you can mix and mingle with people from all over the world.
True!
A great way to go out and see for yourself who really are the ones propagating this nonsense we call "racial tension". Be careful of the ones that look like a certain person missing in Aruba though... (You might get arrested – accused of a felony)
Does the question of guilt come into it at all? (I also noticed a White guy was arrested too.)
That's a stereotype and I am wrong for writing it, but these are the kinds of messages they bombard us with all the time. Cable mainly has US channels... (One or two with strong European influences) I found that I have programmed myself to automatically filter out the nonsense that shows on cable sometimes.
Tell me what channels you are speaking about!
True, war brings out the worst in people, racism being but one of them, By the way he was Canadian.
The Japanese couldn't possibly be logically talking about race, were they were referring to Americans on the whole.
There were talking about White people, as a whole.
Also, they held themselves superior to the Chinese as well. China is their closest cousin, yet they distinguished that civilization (not race – by your definition) as inferior...
True, the civilization came in question but it was also the people - the Chinese.
It is no worst than the Bahamas saying it is the greatest little nation in the world... Do you think the Haitians think we are racist?
I hope not but I have heard some Bahamains suggest that we might be.
The Japanese did not go the extra mile and oppress the Chinese.
You need to study Japan's invasion of China. (Read casualobservers post.)
(Europeans claimed that Africans themselves had slaves.
African did have slaves - not on the style, or cruelty, of the Whites but they did and still do. According to the UN slavery is alive and well in Africa. One of the biggest forms is forcing women into prostitution (these women are owned!) Another for is kidnaping young boys to fight in the Armies.
This was their propaganda to justify their evil work.
Actually, at the time the Whites did not see what they were doing as evil. Why should they have justified it?
The term "servant" was deliberately replaced with "slave".
I'll agree the two terms got confused but a servant who is held against his will is still a slave.
A family dept was often paid off with labor. This was also practiced in China.)
That is called Indentured Servitude. It was popular all over the world.
If China is a separate race from Japan, then The Bahamas is a separate race from America.
It is the people within the country that differ.
We generally see all Americans in a certain light. As a group of people, they are different from us. I dare say that we do not have a lot of the problems that they have. Why adopt some of them?
Why indeed? but we do!
By the way, after several years of learning of that civilization (Japan) from an intimate perspective, I have concluded and verified that they are not racist.
Knowing a few people from that country I would say that the are now, not a racist as they once were.
They see things very different from the west.
Yes, indeed they do.
They were however, very particular with preserving blood lines. Some clans could not interbreed with others. It was mainly a "class" thing. (The same is still so in India.) Several decades ago, it was unthinkable to assimilate a foreigner.
You call that a class thing. Perhaps you are right but take India. An "untouchable" (Harijan) often has a darker skin than a Brahman (highest caste). Maybe sometimes when we speak of race, we really mean "class." Unfortunately, sometimes one has to be of a particular color to be in a particular class. I am glad to see that is not as much a "thing" these days.
It was Americans who insisted that Tiger not call himself Asian...
Are you talking about Tiger Woods? I thought he called himself Black?
Do you think his family in Asia saw him as anything else?
Can't say.
America is a very sick place from many perspectives. So is Europe.
Most places are sick in many perspectives.
One good thing about living in The Bahamas is that if you want to, you can mix and mingle with people from all over the world.
True!
A great way to go out and see for yourself who really are the ones propagating this nonsense we call "racial tension". Be careful of the ones that look like a certain person missing in Aruba though... (You might get arrested – accused of a felony)
Does the question of guilt come into it at all? (I also noticed a White guy was arrested too.)
That's a stereotype and I am wrong for writing it, but these are the kinds of messages they bombard us with all the time. Cable mainly has US channels... (One or two with strong European influences) I found that I have programmed myself to automatically filter out the nonsense that shows on cable sometimes.
Tell me what channels you are speaking about!