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Why did you have to post that link? :( Now I'm pissed off. I have a lot of Japanese friends and those people who put up those statuses are ABSOLUTELY despicable... and I'm a Korean-American and know what the Japanese did to Korea (which is far worse than what they did to America). Those people are probably all racist if they have the audacity to make such a status like that during such a tragic time for Japan.

Don't forget Pearl Harbor? I can't think of plenty of examples against the US but that's unnecessary as history already has it firmly planted.
 
Jesus Christ, if that tsunami is God's payback for Pearl Harbor, then I'm not sticking around to see what he has in store for the USA as payback for the millions of Indians we killed off.

Are there any boats going to the South Pole by chance?
 
Let's not forget how the Japanese treated prisoners of war too. REAL torture. Beheadings. You name it. If America did what they did, my GOd there would the hell to pay.
Many of you that are finding these posts "shocking" are probably also the same ones that STILL consider southern Americans racists from slavery that ended LOOOOOONG before Pearl Harbor.
Think about it.

The fact people still have ill feelings toward the Japanese is no surprise considering what they DID. What they did was worse than any farmer treated a slave. Most slaves were well cared-for. They were workers. They were thought of in the sense you might think of a tractor(that may or may not be good). They were a tool. Farmers treat tools well.

But the Japanese were ruthless thugs. You guys may not have been educated on this and that is a shame. But, sure you were taught all southerners were racist slave owners.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks.

I'm not saying the Japanese deserve this by any means. I'm just saying the thoughts towards them are just natural for what they DID. It may not be right considering they seem to have changed a lot since WWII, but the thoughts towards them is natural considering what scum they USED to be.

Look at the very tame incidents at Abu Ghraib(or however you spell it). It was NOTHING compared to what the Japanese did to prisoners. N O T H I N G !! And look at the outcry over that.

Do you think for a second ANY country would come to our help if we did what Germany did(TWICE), what Japan did? I mean we came to the worlds rescue....TWICE... and did any of them come help during Katrina?

I'm not saying people are RIGHT for what they are saying. I'm saying it is COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE.
 
Let's not forget how the Japanese treated prisoners of war too. REAL torture. Beheadings. You name it. If America did what they did, my GOd there would the hell to pay.
Many of you that are finding these posts "shocking" are probably also the same ones that STILL consider southern Americans racists from slavery that ended LOOOOOONG before Pearl Harbor.
Think about it.

The fact people still have ill feelings toward the Japanese is no surprise considering what they DID. What they did was worse than any farmer treated a slave. Most slaves were well cared-for. They were workers. They were thought of in the sense you might think of a tractor(that may or may not be good). They were a tool. Farmers treat tools well.

But the Japanese were ruthless thugs. You guys may not have been educated on this and that is a shame. But, sure you were taught all southerners were racist slave owners.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks.

I'm not saying the Japanese deserve this by any means. I'm just saying the thoughts towards them are just natural for what they DID.

So nuking them wasn't enough payback?

What about the internment camps? Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How you can find these thoughts natural is beyond belief.
 
All countries have committed terrible acts in times of war. I'm merely pointing out the insensitivity of some people in regards to a natural disaster of such magnitude.
 
I'm not saying people are RIGHT for what they are saying. I'm saying it is COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE.

You must be kidding. Understandable? Not even close. I don't ever want to be blamed for something my grandfather might, or might not have done. I also never want to be be held accountable for anything and everything my particular ethnic group (Caucasians in my case) have done in the past. To insinuate that any of those people that were swept away by that devastating rush of unforgiving water had anything to do with torture during WWII, beheadings, Pearl Harbor or anything else is ****ing absurd! That sort of justification is pure stupidity. Using that logic, if a huge wave came and washed your entire family out to sea killing them all, and some black guy twittered, "well I guess karma is a bitch for all of my relatives you strung up in a tree you ****ing cracker"... you're saying it wouldn't be right to do that, but it would be completely understandable?

Disagree 1000% with you on that one. It's not right, it's not understandable, it's pathetic and complete horse shit is what it is. I would be ashamed to have even thought that way for a second. But to post it on twitter for everyone to see? That's such an embarrassment to this nation. Those are the ****s that give us the nickname 'ugly Americans' overseas. People with zero compasion for anyone but themselves. How sickening.

A lot of white folk stung blacks up in a tree for no other reason than for walking down the street. I surely don't want to be thrown in with that lot. I'm sure there were many Japanese who wanted no association with any of the atrocities their countrymen committed three quarters of a century ago. Japan has been a prime example of change ever since the end of WWII. If any country has ever made ammends and turned themselves around in the history of the world, it is Japan.

If small minded, ignorant people aren't big enough to forgive and forget and accept that what was done in the past does not reflect the character of the nation as it stands today then that's their problem. I don't want to be lumped in with those simpletons either. They can rot in their own hatred all on their own.
 
Holy crap... I'm not even going to respond to an above post because it's wrong on so many levels.

I posted the link on my Facebook... everyone else was completely shocked and dumbfounded that people can make statements like that. The statuses concern Pearl Harbor ONLY... an event that occurred 70 years ago where 2,350 people died (68 civilians). I would think that the approx. 250,000 civilian deaths due to the bombings in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki would be the end of any tensions with Pearl Harbor. I guess there are a lot of people who think that an event 70 years later is still connected with Pearl Harbor.

My grandmother taught me an important thing that I unfortunately forget sometimes... to live in the present and not in the past... an important Buddhist principle. She was Buddhist, Korean, and lived during the Japanese occupation of Korea. I've heard so many terrible stories of what the Japanese did to Koreans, especially to Korean women and children and I didn't read it from a book... I had the source. She would ALWAYS tell me afterwards that it's important to forgive and not to dwell on events that occurred in the past. If my grandmother can forgive the Japanese people for what they did to her and her people, which was a LOT worse than anything that occurred at Pearl Harbor... why can't those Americans?

The Japan of today is NOT the Japan of so many decades ago... just as the Germany of today is NOT the Germany of so many decades ago. I wonder how many of those people who harbor bad feelings towards Japan also harbor the same bad feelings towards Germany.

I have a lot of Japanese friends. I can't even fathom why it would understandable to harbor bad feelings towards them. I see my Japanese friends and what do I see? Friends who are Japanese. I went to Japan for 3 weeks last summer to stay with 3 of my friends, Ayame, Ayaka, and Mao, and had a fantastic time. Even knowing what the Japanese did to my family, I did not even think bad thoughts of even a second while I was there. Why? Because it's just insane. Their families were so hospitable towards me and I am so thankful for them. I know that they completely disagree with what occurred in the past as do all of the Japanese today, just as we Americans today completely disagree with what occurred in the past with slavery (of course aside from those neo-Nazis).

Also... South Korea (government, Red Cross, businesses, banks, donations, celebrities) is donating millions of dollars in aid for Japan. And approx. 910,000 Koreans live in Japan. That certainly shows that times have changed since the Japanese occupation.
 
You must be kidding. Understandable? Not even close. I don't ever want to be blamed for something my grandfather might, or might not have done. I also never want to be be held accountable for anything and everything my particular ethnic group (Caucasians in my case) have done in the past. To insinuate that any of those people that were swept away by that devastating rush of unforgiving water had anything to do with torture during WWII, beheadings, Pearl Harbor or anything else is ****ing absurd! That sort of justification is pure stupidity. Using that logic, if a huge wave came and washed your entire family out to sea killing them all, and some black guy twittered, "well I guess karma is a bitch for all of my relatives you strung up in a tree you ****ing cracker"... you're saying it wouldn't be right to do that, but it would be completely understandable?

Disagree 1000% with you on that one. It's not right, it's not understandable, it's pathetic and complete horse shit is what it is. I would be ashamed to have even thought that way for a second. But to post it on twitter for everyone to see? That's such an embarrassment to this nation. Those are the ****s that give us the nickname 'ugly Americans' overseas. People with zero compasion for anyone but themselves. How sickening.

A lot of white folk stung blacks up in a tree for no other reason than for walking down the street. I surely don't want to be thrown in with that lot. I'm sure there were many Japanese who wanted no association with any of the atrocities their countrymen committed three quarters of a century ago. Japan has been a prime example of change ever since the end of WWII. If any country has ever made ammends and turned themselves around in the history of the world, it is Japan.

If small minded, ignorant people aren't big enough to forgive and forget and accept that what was done in the past does not reflect the character of the nation as it stands today then that's their problem. I don't want to be lumped in with those simpletons either. They can rot in their own hatred all on their own.

Couldn't have put it better myself.
 
What a joke. I have traveled to many other countries but never lived in one for more then a month.. I really hope we are not the only nation with these kinda idiots, as in, it is just more a human thing, rather then an American thing..
 
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