I had an interesting conversation with a women from China just yesterday. She has only been in America for 10 years. We talked about America and it's history of going in to other countries with our military. I expressed the American point of view that we have never attacked another country outright with the purpose of taking over. We have only attacked when attacked first or in the case of our allies being attacked and going to assist them. She found this interesting in relationship to Korea, she had grown up hearing that China needed to help North Korea because America was in South Korea and was now trying to take over the North, and why was America in S. Korea in the first place. When I explained that the American presence in S. Korea was originally to help create a buffer between Japan and the rest of Asia following Japans agression during the early 1900's, and that S. Korea asked for our assistance to push back N. Korea in their attempt to impose communism on the rest of the country that made sense to her. It is easy for her to see the difference between the result of communism and American freedom when she looks at the 2 Koreas She also indicated to me that in China what Japan did to the Japanese is considered their equivalent to the Holocaust.
I had an interesting conversation with a women from China just yesterday. She has only been in America for 10 years. We talked about America and it's history of going in to other countries with our military. I expressed the American point of view that we have never attacked another country outright with the purpose of taking over. We have only attacked when attacked first or in the case of our allies being attacked and going to assist them. She found this interesting in relationship to Korea, she had grown up hearing that China needed to help North Korea because America was in South Korea and was now trying to take over the North, and why was America in S. Korea in the first place. When I explained that the American presence in S. Korea was originally to help create a buffer between Japan and the rest of Asia following Japans agression during the early 1900's, and that S. Korea asked for our assistance to push back N. Korea in their attempt to impose communism on the rest of the country that made sense to her. It is easy for her to see the difference between the result of communism and American freedom when she looks at the 2 Koreas She also indicated to me that in China what Japan did to the Japanese is considered their equivalent to the Holocaust.
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