Cultural Ignorance

[Anita18]

Though it my be more of subconscious "my race is better" racism, s the Japanese 's skin color is closer too European skin. Tht form of racism is equally bd, but not as shocking.

Japanese to me have more angular facial features, which are more attractive to Caucasians (take a look at who models in the US). We Chinese tend to have rounder, softer faces.

It's generally accepted even among fellow East Asians, that Koreans are the prettiest.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Japanese to me have more angular facial features, which are more attractive to Caucasians (take a look at who models in the US). We Chinese tend to have rounder, softer faces.

It's generally accepted even among fellow East Asians, that Koreans are the prettiest.

It depends. It's the Vietnamese that have the best cheekbones.

Also, we Chinese have rounder faces because of all the pork and fried starch we eat.

 

[Anita18]

It depends. It's the Vietnamese that have the best cheekbones.

Also, we Chinese have rounder faces because of all the pork and fried starch we eat.

I have a jawbone that could cut glass and an elbow that could impale someone (and a wrist that looks imminently breakable), and my cheeks are still pretty round.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

I'd have probably said Pol Pot.

The Red Emperor was a psychopath with no care for anything but himself and his country's bottom line, but you could at least see some kind of justification on his end where he was attempting to strengthen China and just didn't give a s*** how many people would have to die either by starvation, over-exhaustion or execution of the intelligentsia. Pol Pot meanwhile, while he had nowhere near the death toll didn't give a **** about anyone or anything other than solidifying his own power and would do similar things to what Mao and others did but without any care for whether it was actually sustainable or had any positive impact on his own country. It kept the people down and kept him in power.

Ditto Hitler, yes he was a scumbag but he was still enough of a nationalist that he did care about more than just himself.

It's a close one between Hitler an Mao, the death toll favours Mao in terms of being "more evil", but simultaneously he wasn't picky and didn't scapegoat anyone not belonging to an Aryan ideal... but simultaneously he was slaughtering anyone smart enough to potentially be able to motivate the masses. Both are cases of slaughtering innocents. But I'd still go with Pol Pot over both. A bigger piece of work who, fortunately, was never in as powerful a position as Mao or I don't think it would even be up for debate.

Mao, in my opinion, killed people really not comprehending his own crazy brain.

Pol Pot just did everything out of spite and selfishness.

Mao is crazy, delusional and stupid to the point he almost becomes sympathetic. He's also just kind of a funny loon. Pol Pot is just a nasty a**hole.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I have a jawbone that could cut glass and an elbow that could impale someone (and a wrist that looks imminently breakable), and my cheeks are still pretty round.

At last confirming what the rest of the Hype has suspected all along, Anita18 admits that she's a Todd McFarlane character.

 

[knowsbleed]

Most Americans still have small town mentalities. How many Americans do you know who have never left their state, let alone their own country? It's that small town mentality that limits their world view, or their thirst for world views... so they are only affected by what they feel "hits home". Going back to 9/11, there were worse tragedies than 9/11, but it happened on American soil to American people and it "hit home". I'm not trying to downplay 9/11 because it truly was a tragedy, but the media sensation and the governmental scare tactics that had the entire country in a frenzy afterwards was ridiculous. People might counter and say that it forced us to ban together as a country, I say it made Americans that much more fearful of everybody else.

I won't even go into American public school systems having a pick and choose attitude when it comes to teaching History. As somebody else said it here, I think it was Optimus_Prime_, history is written by winners. America's mentality of being the top dog of the world ingrains itself down to our youngest generation... what need do they have of knowing what is going on in far away lands where their future doesn't matter?

... on a side note, Korean women are very attractive, but you have to realize socially, they are expected to devote at least 30% of their income on their physical upkeep. Plastic surgery is the norm rather than the exception.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

If you had a house burn down with two odd couple roommates in it. The first, a neat freak with a terrible smoking habit. The second, a slob who leaves pizza boxes everywhere.

One night the smoker falls asleep and one of his cigarette butts falls into a stack of pizza boxes. The whole house goes up in flames. Only one survives.

If it's the slob, you'll hear, at length about how irresponsible the smoker was for not using an ashtray or not smoking outside.

If it's the smoker you'll hear about how irresponsible the other was for leaving paper and cardboard everywhere that's highly flame-able.

Who is right?

Truly neither at the time of the fire. But in hindsight the winner writes the story, and doesn't wish to paint himself the villain, especially since he survived, he must not have been at fault.

That's the way I see a lot of history.

 

[Schlosser85]

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, chief of the German Navy during WWII, was sentenced to ten years in prison at Nuremberg for issuing orders forbidding U-boats to pick up survivors from torpedoed ships (after an incident in which an American fighter bombed a U-Boat despite them flying a Red Cross flag and cruising on the surface with rescued British survivors standing on deck), despite US Admiral Chester Nimitz testifying in Doenitz's defense that he had issued identical orders.

Winston Churchill called Doenitz's imprisonment a "travesty".

But Nimitz's side won, and Doenitz's side lost. So there you have it.

 

[Pink Ranger]

... on a side note, Korean women are very attractive, but you have to realize socially, they are expected to devote at least 30% of their income on their physical upkeep. Plastic surgery is the norm rather than the exception.

Hey, that's almost as much as I devote to my physical upkeep.