Re:Some more information...(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.08.08 1:29 (#20143305) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.08.07 3:42)
We tend to think people who speak different languages are different from themselves, or different animal other than themselves. World War II was the war over the hegemony who is to rule the world. In Europe Germans and Russians fought over it, in Asia Chinese and Japanese, in Pacific Americans and Japanese. Winners became the permanent member of UN Security council, and their influences have been determining the fate of the world in the 21st century.
Such massacres took place before the unity of Japan around 16c. They acquired their identity after unification of Japan. Likewise now we are about to have one strong identity to be cosmopolitan rather than merely nationals of some countires. We will stop killing one another only after we form one strong identity.
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