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Originally Posted by Ducimus
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Was it racist? Yes, but it was also that way the other way around.
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Very true. I was watching a documentary the other day on the pacific war. The japanese it seemed had a "superman" ego as well the Nazi's (interest bedfellows), as they considered the white man inferior, and americans decadent.
Heres part 1 of that documentary:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...KoSwrAPV0dSIDg
I saw part 2 on the TV (not part 1), unfortunatly i can't find part 2 on the web, so part 1 is all you get. Part 2 really layed out how gruesome the pacific really was. Im kind of amazed it hasn't gotten more "silver screen" time then it has, but then again, theres nothing romantic about a brutal war, and the pacific was brutality in its purest form. |
And lets not forget their view of other Asian races, especially the Koreans and Chinese. They literally viewed them as subhuman species. All you have to do is read about Nanking to see how low their regard for the Chinese was, such as making a competiitive sport out of how many beheadings an officer could perform in an hour (or using Chinese prisoners for bayonette training). Princeton University has some pretty gut wrenching photo's online of some of the atrocities (here is the link,
but seriously, read the warning as many of these are really disturbing -
Princeton Nanking Photo").
It's always important with history, if you are to understand it, to be aware of the context of the times. And the context of the 1930's and 1940's was vastly different then now.