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Originally Posted by hitotsz
i'm Korean, and in my experience, there is some (substantial perhaps) anti-Japanese feelings (mostly older generation, i think) in Korea, but also lots of otaku who love everything about Japan, and don't care about past history. Also i think a lot of Koreans think that Japan is cool because of their technology like shinkansen.
Are many Japanese aware that there are some anti-Japanese feelings among Koreans?
Also I wonder what the Japanese are taught regarding the colonization of Korea? do they think it was good, bad, both, or don't care?
Also, in my experience vast majority of Westerners seem to be 100x more interested in Japan and China, esp. Japan, than in Korea and think that Korea is extremely uninteresting country and think that "there's nothing there." I was wondering if many people of Japan thought similarly?
sorry if these topics are taboo, i feel bad bringing it up but i've been curious for long time.
btw i've been living in America for a long time n i think that Americans think British are cool: their accent, technologically advanced, their currency is worth more.
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I couldn't agree with you more on the fact that Westerners are more focused on China and Japan. When I first went abroad the first thing someone asked me was "are you Chinese or Japanese?" That's indeed frustrating, and I loved the people who just asked "Where abouts in Asia do you come from?"
I say both the Japanese and our extremists need to settle down now, and that colonisation thing? Ahn Jung-gun didn't die and become called a matyr because he just shot Hirobumi. I say the Japanese were wrong to do that, but I'm sure they've pretty much learnt their lesson afterwards. Even I, as a Korean who spent almost all of her life outside of her native country, think that was too much. I guess Japan and Britain are similar in those sort of matters. But yes, most Koreans and Japanese don't really care about that anymore unless they study it or are extremists. I also think that both countries are probably well aware what we think of each other (I looked on a couple of replies on a Kin Yuna article and someone commented 'this smells like korean kimchi all over it' -_-;
but I think we should just make up one day, arguing will get no-one anywhere.
Lol, is that why (since my English accent is British) people are so impressed when I read from my english textbook? Do Americans seriously like that?