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this applies more to weeaboos but can be extended to westerners in general.
example: faking of nanking
Good question, if you look at the older threads, there much less Asia-Centric.
We wouldn't, except English-impaired idiots from 2ch and similar Asian-language boards often come here to troll. Sometimes we counter-troll by turning their bigotry into decent debates, and occasionally newfags start similar threads in a misguided attempt to understand their racist mindsets.
Since when do we care about Asian politics? I certainly don't.
Strangely, most of the people I know (online) who live outside of the U.S. seem to know a great deal about the political goingson here, where as I know nothing of theirs.
Plus, Nanking massacre is a historical event, it's not fair to bring up as merely "politics".
"Why do westerners care about Asian politics for example they know about World War II." OK.
Well, most people, do live in Asia, so like, it makes sense to pay attention to that, desu ne?
If war broke out in Asia, we would have no Manga. I also like Asian food.
Sound Insane? No. That's much more insane than US Mideast policy.
Why shouldn't we be paying attention to foreign politics? True, I pay more attention to Asian politics than anything else other than US news, but that's because almost all the Europeans I've had the displeasure of having a conversation with turned out to be complete and utter fucking racist douchebags.
Who am I going to care about more? The countries whose people treat me with an at least decent amount of respect, or the countries whose people constantly refer to me as a "fucking American", harass me just for being American, and even kick me out of online games for something as petty as my nationality? I'll take my chances with the azns, kthxbai.
Well for me I'm Asian-American so it's kinda hard not to care about Asian politics...
Because Asia is part of Earth. Their politics effects our politics.
>>8 lol
protip: asians can be just as racist if not more
>>11
I never said they couldn't. I just said that from my personal experience, Europeans are the ones that seem more likely to lash out at me for being American than Asians are. Then again, I suppose I come into more contact with European foreigners than I do Asian ones, so I get a disproportionate amount of retarded Europeans to retarded Asians.
Comes with living on the East coast, maybe?
Yeah, the US of A has really seen better days in terms of international popularity. I guess you could blame the USSR for falling apart. The US needs villains badly, big ones. So now it has to look for them very hard, in impractical places.
>>14
I just wish there'd finally be politicians who did more than take care of just their own damn selves. Oh well. I suppose the US will rebound eventually. Every nation has its ups and downs.
There are ups and downs, but no ups and downs and up again. It doesn't happen. America is now the Brittany Spears of the United Nations.
Bush is only interested in the North Korean issue right now because he is basically stuck in progress over the situation inIraq and Afghanistan, and he wants to eke out some form of diplomatic victory over one of the "Axis of Evil" regime.
While he has Christopher Kim Jong Hill and Rice working on the NK issue, it's going to be a replay of the peace process in 1994.
http://wikichan.org/index.php/David_Aldwinckle
This fuckhead. "Oh, look at me, I'm trying to get White Supremacists to get into other countries by using the US to sue the shit out of other countries! Isn't that GREAT!?"
Oh, we have plenty. Just look at small, dinky towns out in the middle of nowhere, USA. They have PLENTY of Pro KKK and O.J. Simpson's Rights for All Americans groups waiting to kill the rest of the world and use their bones as dishes and silverware.
It's because asia is a growing economy/super power, china, japan and india included. If they ignore them and their exonomy, they will miss out on all the sweet trade deals and other such money making things.
America is a "pile", but no country is even CLOSE to being anything but a disfunctional piece of shit, or at least that is what I'm told... In America we are constantly spoon fed bullshit, we are made to believe that we are a great nation, and that we are better than everything and everyone else thats out there.
To Citizen: You are right that US investors see Asia as an every growing market which can and do provide absurdly high profits. Hell, the consumerist society which dominates modern lifestyles throughout the world is a direct result of China's and India's mass armies of laborers willing to work for far less than the average first world citizen is. The problem is, that these markets are going to implode soon. I ask you, what ALWAYS happens after many years of unrestricted ecomonic growth?
It's because asian women are easy to screw unless you are Black.
>>22
So sorry couldn't land any pussy, try the subway next time.
I only landed 4 girls in 30 days, and no girl wants a Black bf. Race is the only thing that matters in lfie, and Asian women are the easiest Jezebelles for all races except for Blacks.
umm isnt it obvious? lol, politics in asia can alter western economies. just look at china and what its done to the australian mining industry and the american current account.
because yu westaan pipor, with yoo gureeto interect can herup us beri maatsu, so beri maatsu...
I am completely uninterested in Asian politics.
We don't give a shit, get the fuck out
Quite simply, the electoral and representation system of many Asian countries are fascinating. Take Japan, which uses a mixture of multi-member constituencies and proportional representation for the remainder. This system was instituted after Japan's only coalition government post-world war II, due to the fact that even with multi-member constituencies a single party (the LDP) was able to rule the country without any serious opposition. The electoral reforms produced... More single party rule by the LDP! Beyond this, it gets boring, due to the nature of Japanese politicians to be sensitive to opposition views and to form a consensus.
Or what about South Korea... post division, it was effectively ruled as a military dictatorship for most of its history until international attention prior to the Seoul Olympics in the late 80s gave activists enough wiggle room to start demanding democratic reforms... Yet South Korea was heralded as the "good korea" by western nations throughout the cold war.
China's flirtation with capitalism and the undoing of the cultural revolution is obviously having a serious impact on western economies, its a growing world power, but none of these changes are resulting in democratic reforms, as was the case for the former soviet union and eastern European "communist" states.
This is a part of the world housing some of the world's oldest civilizations, and as a result, you have some very interesting political dynamics.
>>32
Except the Asian politics threads here haven't been about interesting stuff like that, but are just the creation of borderline trolls irate about whether Country A committed really horrible atrocities against Country B in the past and/or has groveled sufficiently in regret for the actions of their grandparents, which country is the rightful owner of some godforsaken rock in the ocean with zero economic value, or just how dirty and smelly a certain ethnic group is.
>>South Korea was heralded as the "good korea" by western nations throughout the cold war.
Probably something to do with Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to their north making even the worst South Korean leaders look like choirboys, amirite?
You are probably too young to remember, but in the 60s and 70s American leftists made a trendy pastime of comparing the disreputable Syngman Rhee or vaguely thuggish Park Chung-Hee to Hitler, and studiously ignoring, or even praising, the monstrous brutal insane Orwellian police state on the opposite side of the DMZ.
How's that working out for them in the Workers' Paradise these days?
>>37
You're right, I'm not 60 years old and therefore not capable or 'remembering' the korean war or these leaders that have since faded into obscurity in the west. I'm not American either.
You seem to be highlighting a perspective distortion that affects the reasonings of ideologues of all stripes, and so your criticism of american leftists for their bias is shallow, at best.
> How's that working out for them in the Workers' Paradise these days?
Difficult to know for sure, but I imagine it's the closest thing to hell on earth from my unpropagandized perspective.