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   BB>>Yes, in Shanghi.   That was an open city for many years, that is   
   BB>>anyone could enter without papers - thus filled with white Russians   
   BB>>and Jews.   
      
    LL> China had been carved up by foreign powers thus making it   
    LL> suitable for outsiders.  Furthermore, entire countries were   
    LL> carved out of what once was China.  In a way, Chinese and   
    LL> Japanese are the same people, given the Japans were settled   
    LL> by Chinese runaways.   
      
    Were they? Or were they Mongolians? Or Koreans? Well, since we all trace   
    back to Africa, they were settled by Africans.   
      
    Though I long ago learned, the original inhabitants of Japan were   
    Caucasian.   
      
   BB>>But the story about not turning over their Jews can be traced to   
   BB>>a very wise Jewish Rabbi, that found out that the Nazi's were   
   BB>>indeed asking the Japanese to round up the Jews living there.   
   BB>>He went to the Japanese commandant and said the only reason   
   BB>>they're asking for us is because they believe we're inferior just   
   BB>>like they look at YOU!  To them, only blue-eyed blondes are the   
   BB>>chosen ones.   
      
    LL> That is the Jewish version.  The Japanese version is much   
    LL> different. In short, Japan invaded China in order to free   
    LL> the Chinese from oppression.  For the Japanese, freeing   
      
    And murdered and raped their way across China in the process.   
      
    LL> Asians from the yoke of white colonialism was their   
    LL> calling.  People in the West fail to understand the   
    LL> Japanese mind, as their culture is too different to   
    LL> comprehend. For example, the phrase "comfort girls" is not   
    LL> what you think ...   
      
    Yes, it is.   
      
   BB>>Well, now ya gotta conflict as the Japanese feel that's   
   BB>>their role - the chosen ones. :)  So bottom line is no Jews   
   BB>>were rounded up.   
      
    LL> Only because the Jews had no "comfort girls" to offer.   
      
   BB>>End result is yes, Jewish lives were saved, but there was an   
   BB>>underlying reason and it's not just humanitarian as much as a   
   BB>>thumb in the Nazi eye. :)   
      
    LL> It is more than that.   
      
    LL> The Japanese consider themselves as being the "white race of   
    LL> the Orient."  Culturally, intellectually, and in every   
    LL> other way superior to all Asian peoples.  In the Japanese   
    LL> mind, there were three classes of people.  The highest   
    LL> class was Japanese.  Below the Japanese were all other   
    LL> Asian peoples.  The lowest class were whites.   
      
    Which takes us back to what I said in the previous msg.   
      
    LL> During WWII, the only people in Asia/Oceania who actively   
    LL> opposed the Japanese were Filipinos. And some of them were   
      
    The Chinese fought all through the war.   
      
    ...   
      
    LL> place.  It should also be remembered that not all Japanese   
    LL> soldiers were monsters, many of them finding such actions   
    LL> so atrocious to the point of going AWOL.   
      
    But a whole lotta them were.   
      
    LL> We like to paint Nazis as being evil monsters, the same as   
      
    Patton said a lot of Germans joined the Nazi party just for advancement.   
    Those who believed in it were monsters.   
      
    LL> we like to paint Japanese of that time as being evil   
    LL> monsters. However, American soldiers also did much the same   
    LL> thing, raping women and killing prisoners, along with   
    LL> taking "souvenirs" of gold teeth, etc., back home.   
      
    Not near as much. No where near as much.   
      
    LL> War is hell, and nothing to be proud of.  No people should   
    LL> be ostracized because of past events, or because of a   
    LL> military gone wild.   
      
    Nor should Iran. OTOH, Saudi Arabia has not yet stopped being evil.   
      
      
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