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Well to be honest, It's hard to be sympathetic with Americans on this one.
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God forbid it was a British soldier. It it were it wouldn't change my opinions about the UK.
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No the people aren't the same as their government yet what incidents occur throughout the world because of the American governments greed and lack of value of human life, will ultimately be reflected on their country. You can defend America all you like but at the end of the day, how can you defend yourself to one of those people that have been wronged by an American soldier?
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I would hope that someone who has been wronged by an American soldier wouldn't carry that stereotype to me. How can I defend myself? Because I am not that person, that's how. When an American serial killer murders someone, how would I defend myself to thier family? The same way. Being born in the same country doesn't make us the same person of the same thinking.
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They are not likely to think logically if their family has just been wiped out via a bomb and so on. They will just hate America and want it dead. This pattern of prejudice is pretty prevalent through history.
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We aren't talking about a bomb here. That is a military decision. This thead is about an AWOL Nigerian soldier stabbing a Japanese taxi driver.
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People wronged in such a way aren't going to discriminate whether an American is an "upper class" American or one from a poorer area who is less educated about their government.
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Surely that is true. I wouldn't either. But if my father were stabbed by a Japanese soldier who had gone AWOL, I wouldn't necessarily carry that stereotype (or say Japanese people were worse than Hitler).
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So in Japan they see their people being stabbed by American "representatives". It reflects badly on America because those "representatives" have been influenced by America, having grown up there and having learned the values of their country their whole life.
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Japanese people are just as intelligent as any other race of people. Does it reflect badly on America? Of course. Are they intelligent enough to separate this incident with the entire USA? Yes. better than JF is, apparently.
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If this type of conduct is what the Japanese are made aware of through the news or whatever, then obviously they will think there is an underlying problem with Americans and this will cause their prejudice to flourish.
I'm sure if the Japanese did the same in America, they would be stereotyped the same way.
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Thankfully both countries are not occupied by people with 5-year-old intellects, so we can be happy this doesn't occur.
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Now as a by-stander, I can be more receptive toward the fact that there are different types of Americans and not all of them are bad. The fact is though, when threads like these are made, they are made to empathise with the party who has been wronged. If they sound biased, that is the reason why.
Bearing the burden of being branded by a particular people because of others actions is something that goes hand in hand with life. I go through the same thing when a certain crime is outlined and committed by my ethnicity, which I myself would never do. I have to bear it though, as I have been my whole life.
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Thanfully JF is not the real world. A few simple-minded people took this post as an excuse to bash the USA. Fortunately the majority of Japanese people aren't as unsophisticated and are able to separate the bad apple from the rest of the tree.