LOL!!!
Somehow, I thought that the Japanese had a general disdain for those who are not oriental.
This must have been quite a site.
What’s interesting to me is that our daughter is working on a research paper on the Japanese Holocaust that occurred around 1935 and involved mass killing of Chinese by Japan. I had never heard of this. For all the bad I can say about public school education, our daughter is learning a whole lot of stuff that I never studied even in college. I thank George W. Bush for some of daughter’s educational opportunities because she wouldn’t be taking some of her classes were it not for Homeland Security grants. (your post made me think of Japanese and their views of other “orientals.”)
What made you think that? My husband served two years in Japan and he had nothing but praise for their country and the people and said they “loved” American’s (emphasis on “ed” with this guy as POTUS)...
For a long time there was a general contempt among the Japanese for ‘foreigners,’ not just Westerners but everyone who wasn’t Japanese. Some of that still exists, but it’s very limited.
My daughter had the good fortune to live in Japan for two years, and was amazed at how much the people she met loved America and Americans, and mostly all things American. She met older men who were toddlers at the end of WWII, who recounted how it was US troops who had given them milk to drink and food to eat when they were otherwise starving. She was very pleased with the way she was welcomed to her village.
The day she left her remote village, half the town (it seemed) turned out to see her off on an early morning train to Tokyo, all brought gifts after having given countless farewell luncheons and dinners. It was a wonderful experience and she’s looking forward to returning, hopefully this summer.