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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
-It is relevant to the point you challenged me on. Furthermore that quote was part of a larger point I was trying to make about the effects such a notion (the one of racial heirarchy and superiority) had on International politics at the time and how it could have mobilised Japan militarily.
-Why are you offended? I said typically... I didn't say all Americans took that stance.
-I'm not being a troll. All I'm trying to do is put history into perspective. It is you that took issue with my position that America weren't exactly the good guys in WW2.
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If you want to talk about racial heirarchy and superiority, those were the driving forces behind the Germans and Japanese. Germans were the "master race", and the Japanese had a "divine" Emperor, and "manifest destiny" and all that. The Japanese saw themselves as superior to all other peoples. They didn't even consider the people of Southeast Asia as human beings, but mere chattel, fit only to be used as the lowest of slaves.
It was America and the Allies which fought against those notions.