"The Count" <vlad@impaler.com> wrote in message
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>
> > Nice try but that's not true. Racism towards Koreans in Japan was
> > pretty heavy among the older generations. But the younger generation
> > who listen to BoA on the radio and go eat Bulgogi in the restaurants
> > harbor no such feelings towards Koreans, from Hanguk to be exact.
> > North Korea is an entirely different matter for obvious reasons. So
> > how do we explain why YOUNG Koreans are racist towards the Japanese
> > but that YOUNG Japanese are NOT racist towards Koreans?
>
>
> Obviously you have no idea about what you are talking about.

Why? What aspect of what I said above is wrong?
I didn't pretend to explain why, I merely "asked" why.
So how does that translate to "not having any idea about what I am talking
about"?

> Many young
> Koreans both here in America and Korea, who have learned anything about
> their own history do not like japanese.  Some outright hate them.
> That's because they are taught the TRUTH about history, not just from
> textbooks but first-hand horror stories from their grandparents.
>
Yes, hatred passed on from one generation to the next.
It's a real beauty of a thing to watch.

> Young japanese have no gripe with Koreans because:
> 1. they do not have such first-hand knowledge.
> 2. their revisionist government likes to erase and cover up the facts.

Perhaps that's true, but what YOU know nothing about is the difference in
racist attitude
in Japan between the older and younger generatuons.
I have lived there. Have you?
I have Japanese friends, do you?
What do YOU know?
Frankly I think the young Japanese are far less prone to racism towards
anyone, korean or
otherwise, than their older generations.