(make sure to check out the slideshow...that fake fire extinguisher really had me fooled there)
but to relate this to china, the chinese friends i have spoken to will say without any reservation or qualification they don't like the japanese. "no, i do not like the japanese. they attack our country, and your america too!" "japan is small, so they come to attack our china when they run out of resources." they asked me how the u.s. gets along so well with england, and while i felt totally unqualified to speak for the nation, i told them that i thought it was just because we were such similar countries with similar values. this didn't seem to ring true to them or explain it. they couldn't understand how we had such good relations with a country that we "just" fought 200 years ago.... it was an odd question for me, but not so odd when i think about china's relationship with taiwan and japan.
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