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Originally Posted by edelweiss
Qayin - I think there is a bit of a "two way street" at work with this with both sides using it to their advantage when needs be. On the whole I completely agree with you.
I am very concerned about the growing groups of "Nationalists" on all sides of this and in other parts of the world. I wish the government(s) would not stir up these radical feelings amongst a vocal minority to give their agendas the appearance of a majority in the news. It's happening here as well and it is scary stuff.
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Actually I don't concern much about Japanese nationalistic attitude nowaday. I know there are some crazy nationalists like governor Ishihara Shintarou, but I think that Japan is a democracy country with very high degree of freedom of speech, so I think nationalistic propaganda is not that big issue in Japan.
But in the other hand, China is still be fascist-like communism country, so when compare to democracy states like US, Japan, France I think that propaganda is much stronger and much more effective in China because of its non-democracy nature. That's what I afraid of.