"Patriotism"- some food for thought
because I want the whole world to know of my discontent
Whenever I see a commercial about a WW2 movie comming out...it really bothers me. Not so much the whole war movie thing. I get the whole patriotic "we're proud of our country's history" and all that. I get that...
What does bother me about it though, is whenever Japan, or what I mean to say, more specifically... The mention of Hiroshima.
Yes because Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki were GREAT achievements in american history. I get that it happened. But is it so great to bomb an entire populated city of purely innocent Japanese citizens? Correcton, that's TWO cities! (OMG! I know how to count!)
Now when I think of Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor whenever portreyed by Hollywood, of course the Japanese are bad guys. I get that, because to america at the time "Japanese evil
And that's why America created Japanese internment camps! (oh brilliant!) Because WHAT did we learn from WW1 in the first place?
Right remember WW1? the Nazis stuck Jews into death camps. Why? because they were Jewish. I understand you compare the two and well.... Oh well... the japanese internment camps were nowhere near as devistating as the concentration camps. But how is the idea any diffreent?
Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and confined into camps. Why? because they are of japanese ancestry and thus it's practically their fault Pearl Harbor happened. Of course we know it's not. But see? that's the greatness of Hollywood! because we can omit that tiney little unseamly detail.
You know... after they were released from the internment camps. How many of them do you think actually recieved their posessions back?
The Japanese in Hawaii were fortunate enough not to have been placed in such camps. Perhaps nobody recalls but let's remember the 442 Regiments, consisting entirely of Japanese American men who volunteered to fight for America in WW2.
Oh I get there are so many sides to the same story but as I see it how often do we truly get to see all of them? And how unfair it is that we don't often get to see them.
Whenever I see a commercial about a WW2 movie comming out...it really bothers me. Not so much the whole war movie thing. I get the whole patriotic "we're proud of our country's history" and all that. I get that...
What does bother me about it though, is whenever Japan, or what I mean to say, more specifically... The mention of Hiroshima.
Yes because Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki were GREAT achievements in american history. I get that it happened. But is it so great to bomb an entire populated city of purely innocent Japanese citizens? Correcton, that's TWO cities! (OMG! I know how to count!)
Now when I think of Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor whenever portreyed by Hollywood, of course the Japanese are bad guys. I get that, because to america at the time "Japanese evil
And that's why America created Japanese internment camps! (oh brilliant!) Because WHAT did we learn from WW1 in the first place?
Right remember WW1? the Nazis stuck Jews into death camps. Why? because they were Jewish. I understand you compare the two and well.... Oh well... the japanese internment camps were nowhere near as devistating as the concentration camps. But how is the idea any diffreent?
Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and confined into camps. Why? because they are of japanese ancestry and thus it's practically their fault Pearl Harbor happened. Of course we know it's not. But see? that's the greatness of Hollywood! because we can omit that tiney little unseamly detail.
You know... after they were released from the internment camps. How many of them do you think actually recieved their posessions back?
The Japanese in Hawaii were fortunate enough not to have been placed in such camps. Perhaps nobody recalls but let's remember the 442 Regiments, consisting entirely of Japanese American men who volunteered to fight for America in WW2.
Oh I get there are so many sides to the same story but as I see it how often do we truly get to see all of them? And how unfair it is that we don't often get to see them.