Yes, xoce, I agree with you.
Was just giving you a little 'slice of life' insight into my dealing with an individual Jap.
My best friend is a Jap. He's convinced that Japs are superior to all other Asians. He likes to call himself the 'beast from the east' and has a definite pecking order of Asian people and their worth. On his scale Koreans occupy the lowest rung. Chinese people get a good grade.
He'd like to think Japs are the 'master race', so I'm compelled to remind him what a beating the American gaijings put on Japan during WWII.
He doesn't like being reminded that the Jewish developed A-bomb nearly incinerated his mom who was in Hiroshima when it was nuked, but survived.
Japs can be really xenophobic, but overall I admire their culture and think they're a fine people.
If your mom was nearly incinerated by the Nazi gas chamber, would you like to be reminded of it?
For the civilians who were nuked in Hiroshima- how is that a sign of their inferiority to anyone. Much less the rest of Asia. Your friend is claiming the Japanese are superior to the rest of Asia. Well, from the looks of things, they are.
The Jews were attacked and sent to concentration camps. Does that mean Jews are inferior to the Nazi's who sent them there?
No. Peoples/cultures are to be judged by the advances they provide to humanity. Advances in medicine, technology, etc etc. It seems to me that the Jewish culture is high up on the hierarchy, and so is Japanese culture, among others.
No, of course I don't like to be reminded that millions of Jews were incinerated in Nazi ovens, but that doesn't change the fact that it happened.
When my buddy starts boasting of Jap superiority it's fun to beat him with the clue bat by reminding him who won WWII.
I'm a Jewish supremacist. So he'll remind me that European Jews didn't exactly put up tremendous resistance to Hitler's extermination campaign.
Do I like it ? Nope. But with limited exceptions like the Warsaw Ghetto, he's probably right.
This doesn't mean that he doesn't respect and admire the Jewish people anymore than my reminders to him mean that I don't respect and admire alot about the Japanese.