One of my friend’s grandparents pretty much never forgave the Japanese(not just like fascists but as a whole) for their imperial days and I cant exactly blame them at all.
Some years ago I had this Filipino neighbor who was born in the 1960s who disowned her son for marrying a Japanese person ‘because of WW2 stuff’.
The craziest thing is how she worshiped the USA for “liberating us from the Spanish and the Japanese”. Her version of the history her country was basically Filipinos getting conquered because they were stupid and then America flying in like a angel to save them multiple times and immediately flying away. Apparently, the US never did anything bad there and my historical recollection was not warmly received.
Also, her husband once, very drunkenly, pulled out a microphone and electric piano (which he had no idea how to play) and sang a 15+ minute song he wrote praising Duterte to “Make Philippines Great Again” (like it was under Marcos Sr). In the last 5 minutes he started crying, stopped “playing” the piano and the lyrics just became about how Trump was going to save America and the Philippines. Fuck knows how long that would have gone on if he didn’t vomit on the floor when he did.
I don’t know why I shared that. Maybe historically coherent racism at least makes some sense? I cant even.
A lot of my older relatives are like this. Kinda hard to let go of things when you lose your brother in the Bataan Death March or watch Japanese soldiersremoved and behead all the women in your family while you were able to hide in a crawlspace because you were a little girl. The survivor’s guilt alone left people messed up for life. And no one wants to talk about if you were a “comfort woman.” It’s just too fucking awful to think about.
I wonder if people would scold ww2 survivors about being discriminatory against german & italian culture. Somehow I doubt it.
One of my friend’s grandparents pretty much never forgave the Japanese(not just like fascists but as a whole) for their imperial days and I cant exactly blame them at all.
Some years ago I had this Filipino neighbor who was born in the 1960s who disowned her son for marrying a Japanese person ‘because of WW2 stuff’.
The craziest thing is how she worshiped the USA for “liberating us from the Spanish and the Japanese”. Her version of the history her country was basically Filipinos getting conquered because they were stupid and then America flying in like a angel to save them multiple times and immediately flying away. Apparently, the US never did anything bad there and my historical recollection was not warmly received.
Also, her husband once, very drunkenly, pulled out a microphone and electric piano (which he had no idea how to play) and sang a 15+ minute song he wrote praising Duterte to “Make Philippines Great Again” (like it was under Marcos Sr). In the last 5 minutes he started crying, stopped “playing” the piano and the lyrics just became about how Trump was going to save America and the Philippines. Fuck knows how long that would have gone on if he didn’t vomit on the floor when he did.
I don’t know why I shared that. Maybe historically coherent racism at least makes some sense? I cant even.
A lot of my older relatives are like this. Kinda hard to let go of things when you lose your brother in the Bataan Death March or watch Japanese soldiersremoved and behead all the women in your family while you were able to hide in a crawlspace because you were a little girl. The survivor’s guilt alone left people messed up for life. And no one wants to talk about if you were a “comfort woman.” It’s just too fucking awful to think about.
The best response possible. Norm Finkelstein says more or less this. His parents hated Germans. Not Nazis. Germans.
Like half of Britain didn’t even want to look at a German until the mid 1960s out of pure anger over WWII