Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mountaincable.net!news.glorb.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.korean,alt.history,soc.history Subject: Why did MAcarthur refer to japanese as 12 year olds? Date: 25 Mar 2004 21:39:54 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 16 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.167.28.90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1080279594 16588 127.0.0.1 (26 Mar 2004 05:39:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12882 I've heard it quoted that MAcarthur said "the japanese should be treated like they're 12 year old". This may be a paraphrase of his speech, in which compared to the "modern germany" japan was a "12 year old boy". However, it is clear that Macarthur somehow though of japanese as being immature, and probably not solely to them not being modern or even and enemy because i do not believe he made similar remarks about Koreans or Chinese. Or his duties as an administrator, for I do not believe he made similar remarks about the people of the Phillipines. I just want to know your opinions on why you think this, both japanese and otherwise.