29th June 2009, 10:58 PM
On an only slightly related note, Japan focuses on its own suffering, but ignores what it did to others in that war, which was a whole lot worse... it's natural, every country does that kind of thing pretty much to some degree, but it is a problem.
"We suffered so much!" ... Yeah, but what about all the millions who died because of what you started, and what about the war crimes? Oh right, those things weren't really wrong...
Of course getting past upholding national pride is very difficult, but the Germans did it, and look at all the good it's done them in truly integrating with Europe and trying to finally get past WWII.
"We suffered so much!" ... Yeah, but what about all the millions who died because of what you started, and what about the war crimes? Oh right, those things weren't really wrong...
Of course getting past upholding national pride is very difficult, but the Germans did it, and look at all the good it's done them in truly integrating with Europe and trying to finally get past WWII.