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Originally Posted by RealJames
I've never once met a Japanese person who believes Japanese people are better than others, in fact Japanese people have massive insecurity issues and admiration issues towards the US.
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I will also say that you`re a bit off here... Outward statements and internal beliefs are totally different worlds, really.
Most Japanese I know seem to be caught between a media / education culture that tells them at every turn that they are an inferior country - that everyone should admire and try to emulate "western" ideals... and being patriotic.
Because of issues to do with the war, patriotism is looked down upon. But people love their home, their culture, their families... And naturally this translates into patriotism. The Japanese "better than everyone else" seems to fall more into the same lines as an American believing that the US is the greatest country on Earth. The difference is, if people in Japan say it outright there is a tendency to be bashed for it...
Love of home and country itself isn`t a bad thing.