If you reall wanna compare who are the most nationalistic, it would go Africans > Asians > Poor white people > The rest who cares Taiwan is part of China you silly goyim.
Well, seeing as I'm from Korea... - short tempered (easy to get riled up) - proud - drink excessively - quite racist (hate to admit) - hate Japan (for their brutal occupation) - like to blend into the crowd / conform, rather than stick out / be different - very hierarchical culture in terms of corporate / family - very big emphasis on education as the road to success (particularly obsessed with learning english) Obviously these are stereotypes, and ofcourse there are countless exceptions. Interesting post earlier regarding Koreans "secretly" admiring Japan, I'd say this is would have to be the case as we have emulated / followed aspects of their business (mega-corporations like Samsung / Hyundai) and culture (K-pop) to become successful in our own right. K-pop is just our version of J-pop, for example. We added some english and maybe marketed it better, and now it's more successful than J-pop ever will be.
Thanks for confirming that. A couple of non-Asians just hurried to showcase their ignorance and arrogance before engaging in a rational discussion. Glad that the thread is back on track now.
This may be astounding to you, but 30 years in HK does not mean you speak for for Hong Kong. Just as that Korean earlier mistaking the similarities between the two countries as emulation, when in reality it's just two American puppet states being groomed in the same style. I hope you don't arrogantly speak for your people again
I would admit that the US still has a great deal of influence over Korea, but wouldn't go so far as calling it a puppet state. We are gaining more independence from the US as our domestic arms manufacturing becomes more self-reliant, for example. And for clarification, "admire" as in "we want their success, so let's emulate what they're doing". We still hate them for their atrocities. But even then, that's 70 years past now. It's more our parent's and grandparent's generation that carry on the hate, and as they were the ones that were directly affected, I can't blame them for it. I have Japanese colleagues and friends, they're nice. And I'd love to visit Japan, seems like a cool place. You never forget what happened, but it's history, we can move on now.
I think I'm less concerned about your obsession with Japan and your hatred against the rest of Asia now, rather your instant attraction to someone who hates himself for being Asian is the most troubling ailment I've seen. Modernization is westernization. Korea emulated Japan? No, everyone emulated the west. Asia has not had world changing innovations since the ancient times. What does it means to hate a country and its people? vcchlw obviously doesn't understand anything. He mistakes the fairy tales and family's friendly banters as some universal truth about the most diverse group of cultures in the world. If that's not ignorance, then what is?
Fully understood. I guess that's the difference between Korea and China. In China, the hatred against Japan is growing due to increased level of nationalistic education. In the 70s and 80s, communist China was desperate to establish diplomatic ties with the rest of the world. The official propaganda tried to tone down the WWII atrocities by Japan and focus on promoting "China-Japan friendship". Things started to change in the 90s, as the Chinese Communist Party tried to legitimize their regime with its economic development as well as xenophobic nationalism. And Japan was an easy target to point to. The hatred against Japan has grown enormously ever since. According to a survey (which I am too lazy to dig out), the current younger generation in China has shown a stronger hatred against Japan compared with their parent's and grandparent's generation who actually had the first-hand experience of the Japanese invasion. A few years ago, Japanese automobiles in the street were systematically destroyed and the car owners (even though they were Chinese) were beaten by a mob as they were considered "traitors". Many teens (especially those in Beijing where people are more nationalistic) expressed their willingness to join the Chinese army to "invade Japan" and the notion that China and Japan will inevitably go to war again, is widely accepted in China. While the current generation of Koreans have decided to "move on", rampant nationalism against Japan has continued to grow in China. EDIT: LOL @ somebody said I hate Asia. I am not even mad. PEACE.
lol, you should probably step up on your reading comprehension before you make sweeping generalization about things you don't understand. The person I was actually referring to is probably laughing his ass off at the things you type.
Pretty accurate. I'm from HK as well and honestly i dislike mainlanders (rude, disgusting on top of what you listed) but that's just my opinion, of course not all of them are like that, but most. Have you ever seen a father pick up his son to pee in a water fountain at Disney Land? i have.
Umm, yeah. Japan freaking bombed Hawaii in WWII, and we moved on long ago. Seriously it's a bit ridiculous that people still harbor WWII grudges since it was so long ago.
