"FreddieN" <Pacbel2973@dlink.net> wrote in message news:<HAInd.1439$356.354@trndny04>...
> AHAHAHA..good one LT Lee.
> Here's one for you to think about...
> If it were not for Japan, Westerners woulds still think that all asiatics
> were nothing but backwards assed yellow monkeys whose sole existence
> on this planet was to be subservient to Caucasians.
> Comments?
> 

What westerners or other peoples thought about China is totally
irrelevant. Such perception does not make it a reality. They question
you need to consider is this: If Japan does not exist, who and how
many would miss it and for what? Not the Chinese.

> 
> "LT Lee" <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5eb15984.0411200235.6b8e011b@posting.google.com...
> > Britain, as part of the West inflicted pain and suffereing to the
> > Chinese as well many other peoples in the world. On the other hand,
> > Britain, as part of the West, also had produced many great thinkers,
> > great pioneers and great inventors which contributed to humanity.
> >
> > What are Japan's unique contribution to the world during her whole
> > history?
> >
> > superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) wrote in message
>  news:<e91ad9af.0411161907.2ceab9a3@posting.google.com>...
> > > In 1839, after the emperors own son had died from drug addiction, had
> > > hired a moral offficial named Lin TSe Tsu to suppress the illegal
> > > opium trade.  Opium had long been illegal in japan, because even a
> > > chink can figure out it isnt healthy for society.  The chinese cracked
> > > down on opium parlors and opium cargo all along the coast.
> > >
> > >
> > > Angry at the chinese government for seizing "their" opium, the british
> > > launched a series of blockades, bombardments, and coastal plunder.
> > > When a peace was finally negotiated, the British demanded
> > > "extraterritoriality", making it effectively illegal for Chinese to
> > > arrest British drug dealers.
> > >
> > >
> > > The worst drug addiction case in history proceeded, but things werent
> > > even at their worst yet.
> > >
> > >
> > > Later, when China was in a civil war, chinese officers mistakenly
> > > arrested some british smugglers, and the British used the excuse to
> > > decalare wae.  They demanded money from china and that china formally
> > > legalize opium, and when the Emperor refused, the British simply
> > > marched on his palace and burned it down.  France and Russia decided
> > > to join in on the fun.  Helpless, and in civil war, the Emperor ad no
> > > choice but to give in.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   Opium being competley legal now, even china's own merchants were
> > > allowed to join in on the profits.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The worst drug addiction case in history proceeded, the long term
> > > effects on chinese society were atrocious.
> > >
> > >
> > > The question is, why do the chinese admmire the british for forcing o
> > > them opium, and yet hate the japanese?  In the long run, the effects
> > > of th opium trade (not stopped until CHina joined the allies in WW2)
> > > were at least as bad.
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it because chinese people worship whites, and hate the japanese
> > > more because they are not white?
> > >
> > >
> > > Seems to me the chinese are cowards, forgiving atrocities on them by
> > > white people but not asians.  Cowardly chinks.