From: gang@ms.uky.edu (Gang Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What about China done to Korea?
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:25:23 GMT
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Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:

>In article <1992Aug20.040016.27706@CS.ORST.EDU> lamb@jasper.CS.ORST.EDU (Ben Lam) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug20.013838.14861@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
>>>
>>>I hope this means you'll shut up after the last Japanese of the WWII
>>>era are dead. But no, somehow I expect you'll find some slippery
>>>reason for continuing to demand an apology while ignoring your own
>>>country's evils. I demand all Chinese apologize to the Koreans
>>>immediately.
>>
>>May be you can tell me what slippery reasons could I use?

>Well, you didn't apologize so I guess you just skipped right
>over giving a reason why you won't.

>>Hmm ... according to your logic, may be US should apologize to China
>>                     ^^^^^^^^^^
>>because US invaded China with seven other Western nations during the
>>Ching dynasty.  I demand all Americans apologize to the Chinese immediately.
>>
>>--Ben Lam

>It wasn't my logic. It was the logic of many Chinese on this network.
>I applied it in such a way that even you thought it was ridiculous.
>But you only saw it as ridiculous when it was someone demanding an
>apology from *you*. The double standard strikes again.

Before talking about the history between China and Korea, I think this
gentleman should read a little history. I myself learned some thing new this
time about the history. It is helpful.
Under your assumption and observation, your reasoning can be hold. But it is
not good enough to convince the other part, because they don't think your
observation is all-side.

>Let me interject something. *Demanding* an apology is strange to me.
>Apologies are something the offending party either offers up of their
>own free will or they don't. Japan hasn't. Okay. They're idiots ( the
>Japanese Gov't, not the people) for not apologizing, but couldn't you
>use your time better than this apology thing?

>You won't get what you're demanding.  Wouldn't it be better to set up
>a museum in Nanking (like Japan has done for the A-bomb in Hiroshima)
>and make it a monument to those that were murdered so no one will ever
>forget?  Wouldn't it be better to spread the word on what happened and
>stop even using the word apology?

>If you were really organized and knew what you were doing you could
>make sure that every man woman and child in Japan knew *exactly* what
>happened regardless of what their textbooks said. And for all this you
>could avoid wasting time on the one thing history proves doesn't work:
>trying to force a sovereign state to do something they don't want to.

>-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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