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Old 03-01-2007
Thematic-Device Thematic-Device is offline
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Re: America's covert postwar intimacy with Japanese right wing fascists

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Originally Posted by Luke View Post
Chinese army does not go to North Korea and kill them like American army kill and rape the people in other countries who does not show obedience to Washington.
Easy there the CCP propaganda is getting to you, North Korea routinely kills and rapes its people and that is what the Chinese Army went into North Korea to preserve. It couldn't stand the though of a free and independent North Korea, nor could it stand the thought of people living in peace. What about the cozy relationship with Sudan? Did China see another country prosecuting a genocide and decide it found a friend?

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Taiwan, as well as Tibet, is Chinese territory,
No more then Korea or India are parts of Chinese Territory.

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As long as you cannot logically prove what my intent is with hard evidence, you lose in court for spreading rumors about me.
Having an opinion about your intent, particularly when it is so blatant is hardly spreading a rumor.

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Since Americans have no facts, why do Chinese reciprocal actions need facts?
I'm sorry, we have plenty of facts, from the persecution of the falun gong, to reverse matching of organs...

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I think the worst hellhole in the earth now is Iraq and Afganistan.
Oddly enough, the Afghani's like the US and Canada, and no, with the Taliban largely beaten into the south any prospect of the Taliban even coming close to North Korea are part of a distant past. But I'm sure Xinhua told you that the North Koreans love to have chemical weapons tested on them, to be tortured, beaten, raped, and killed, and they love to have it done by China's puppet.

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China has no xenophobia, even if there are, only American and Japanese threats justify it, not the parades. There are so many foreigners in China, and I bet you can hardly find any HATE CRIMES against foreigners in China. We are not racist Americans or Japanese.
You (personally) are not racist? I disagree.

Someone who continues to decry the US for the working conditions during the construction of the railroads, is quite plainly seeking to find justification for his racism.

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what is the difference between a Sammurai and a Ninja.
This is your test? Are you serious?

A samurai follows bushido, and is a soldier in the service of a feudal lord, a part of a caste of warriors of the highly stratified in ancient japan. They were the top of the social scale until the in the Tokugawa Shogunate they were largely seeing their power replaced by the merchant classes.

A ninja, and shinobis like them were not bound to bushido, were disdained by the warrior class, and did not view it as honorable to die in battle like the Samurai envisioned, taking down as many enemies as possible, and instead would seek to either escape or to kill themselves. There is some debate whether Ninjas existed as they are currently envisioned, due to an incredibly sparse collection of historical sources on them, although there were certainly assassins and spies the debate lies in the extent and role they played.

So heres my question, can you outline the time period directly before the formation of the Tokugawa Shogunate, say from Oda Nobunaga's battles up to the battle of Sekigahara?

Howabout the Meiji Restoration, what were its primary causes, what was its ultimately ironic conclusion?

Fascinatingly enough, we get quite the selection of translated History books on japan, even ones written domestically.

Last edited by Thematic-Device; 03-01-2007 at 08:35 AM.
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