Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:4177BFD9.9BF2A13D@yahoo.co.jp...
> > registered Democrats, about US history. Because they, as children of the
> 40s and 50s,
> > were raised to think quite differently about their country the US. They
> never
> > criticized Vietnam, or any President or his policies that I can recall.
>
> I don't think you can lay this down to a generational thing. My parents were
> born in the 30s and 40s, and they were (anti-war) hippies. My mom still has
> "Country Joe and the Fish" in her record collection.

Then perhaps it was having links to traditional conservative Japanese culture
(though they did not speak the language or "act" like Japanese), or having
lived in an environment where it was necessary to prove their loyalty, that
they were so strongly patriotic or tolerant of its imperfections.

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