digitaldorobo

America: Is This the End of an Era?

Ummm...there weren't waves of Buddhist monks torching themselves. Nice exaggeration.

"Japan has always been tolerant of a number of religions" -- wrong. Another nice exaggeration.

As for prejudice, I lived there for five years and can tell you it is quite real, especially against blacks and south east asians. WWII brought the Bataan Death March and Nanking massacre among others.

If you are going to make an argument, support it with facts, not fiction.


On Jan 10 10:43 AM anarchist wrote:

> Nice to hear from a student of history. I seem to remember waves
> of Buddhist monks torching themselves in Vietnam in protest of the
> U.S. presence. Have you ever been it Japan? Japan has always been
> tolerant of a number of religions including the Buddhist. I have
> a friend who was raised in Japan during the second world war, his
> mother an American and his father German and they were never harassed
> or sent to a detention center unlike the good ole US of A where panic
> and ethnic hate overruled common sense - kind of like now (viva guantanamo
> eh iThinkBig?).