Ernest Schaal wrote:

> You also said that they tend to exaggerate. Overall, your comments that they
> are more emotional and political than Japanese, and that they tend to
> exaggerate would lead to the reasonable inference that you are bigoted
> against Chinese in general. Such bigotry is something that a moral person
> would be ashamed of.

You are making much of the claim that Chinese are:
More emotional than Japanese.
More political than Japanese.
People who exaggerate.

Stereotype and generalization, true. Generally to be avoided. But stereotype
and generalize we do on the NG.

But are they incorrect? Am I instead to believe that Chinese and Japanese are
either similar in those regards, or that Japanese draw ahead of the Chinese?
Because if not seen as individuals, we certainly can see a difference. Chinese
do not exaggerate (as do many people on matters of national or cultural pride,
or pain)?

The same could be said of Americans. Or angry Middle Easterners who appear in
news reports.

Do you claim to be ignorant on such matters, too, or just too politically
correct to admit it?

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