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Originally Posted by sob
Looking at it from the opposite direction, I would be very comfortable boarding an airplane whose other occupants were Japanese, notwithstanding their behavior in WWII.
I also believe a lot of this discussion references "race" when they actually mean "culture."
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sob, thanks for letting us know how comfortable you'd feel on a plane full of recently tamed and harmless Japanese. This may be from "the opposite direction" but it's still a racial stereotype and it's just as false.
Pragmatically how successful do you feel your system of racial identification would be in seperating a
supposedly harmless Japanese from a North Korean, Thai (they have a problem with Muslim seperatists too), Chinese, Vietnamese, Philippino, etc.?