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Originally Posted by Tervuren
This is one of the things about the USA that I find interesting.
We had STRONG anti Japanese propaganda, even kids cartoons from Disney.
The Japanese did things in SE Asia that still cause animosity today.
They brutalized US prisoners.
Yet despite this, the hatred for the Japanese died off with the generation that lived it from the United States.
Leading products in many areas of the U.S. are Japanese brands.
What is the difference that these racial issues faded so fast, yet other racial issues have not?
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Japan surrendered unconditionally. We beat them into submission with just two nuclear bombs after destroying their navy and infrastructure with conventional bombs and bullets. We lost a lot of men, they lost a lot more. They started a fight they could never win, but they gave it a good try.
One of my now dead friends served in the Marines and in the pacific. He saw many examples first hand of the atrocities committed by "Japs" and he flat refused to say the word Japanese, and he said Japs with a real hatred I had never come across before. The Germans were brutal, but the Japanese took brutality to a new level.