I mean it's a complex piece of history.
America bombed to bits Japan and nuked it twice. Should USA not be remorseful at all?
Or how about the European colonisation of Asia? I don't recall Brits feeling bad about the opium wars.
Or how about China invading Tibet or its horrific "cultural revolutions"?
But let's stick to the topic and avoid whataboutism.
Edit:
I saw you have another almost identical comment (now flagged).
Are you feeling that I am deliberately leave out the rethoric that China or CCP were equally brutal, so that you have to raise points about China been the one committed crime.
I find those thoughts insulting, inhumane, and plainly wrong.
I am a Chinese. My ancestors have suffered those brutality themselves.
My grand father still had the memory of the fear he was subjected to during Japanese invasion (not part of the NanJing massacre). My entire life has been haunted by the gruesome deeds that I personally has association with through my people's collective memory.
It was not just the shear number of people killed. It was also the plain animal like brutality performed, whcih terrified my heart. So much so that I avoid sharing those with anyone, online or in person. Just repeating those in my mind causes fear and repulsion to my guts. (Google it yourself at your own discretion)
So the point is, is that there were many horrific incidents that occurred in Asia, and China sadly. I think it's more useful (and reasonable) to look at all the brutality.
The 1850s civil war in China btw was arguably the worst of the lot. An insane level of brutality there but it seemingly goes unmentioned.
The west did horrific things in Asia. I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.
Don't forget it was USA that forced open Japan. They didn't ask to be open to the world.
>I think it's more useful (and reasonable) to look at all the brutality
In what specific way is it more useful? Other than just the overall raw fact of pointing out that collective memory is often arbitrary and in flux (which I think most people intuitively accept). You certainly will not get to see people get upset or relaxed in exact proportion to the magnitude of the topics considered.
I'm asking because I've heard those arguments in various contexts and there's rarely added information other than an attempt to de-legitimize grievances through historical comparisons.
I'm not saying that this is the case here or attributing intentions to your post, but I feel it is worth mentioning the context under which these arguments might be perceived.
I think it's problematic to isolate historical events without considering the surrounding history and can inflame tensions between communities/nations.
In terms of The Japanese invasion of China, this event has often been magnified by China in comparison to other brutal events that occurred after and before it. Taken in isolation it is indeed horrendous. But zeroing in on this event downplays the brutality of the other events within China, both by other Europeans and by various Chinese over the past 200 years. Its a distortion of history.
To give an example for a number of decades in china there have been 1000s of films about Japan's invasion of China. How many have there been on Britians cruelty to the chinese?
Encouraging a demonising of a nation is not something I can support.
Hey, this comment is composed of arbitrary claims without any references. Can we have a more constructive discussion where information and data can be shared?
Well that's a fair point. Can I also say that I thought your first comment was beautifully written (I'm being honest here).
Anyway, I don't have time right now right now to provide evidence. So that does weaken my case. I looked into this stuff years ago.
I also am aware that my position might be hurtful to Chinese. That is not my intention either (but it may have happened - and I'm sorry if that did occur). I could try and provide some links Tomo.
Just to repeat I know the Japan invasion of china was horrific. Their treatment of British Soldiers was awful too.
But how this event has been portrayed by the Chinese, relative to other awful historical events and the impact that has had on them is something I feel needs consideration. Anyway I'm just repeating myself.
CCP indeed has a plan for most significant historical events where the party has proper resources to work on. Those were mostly managed by the propaganda department. This is also reflecting my comments elsewhere about China is far more exotic than just being oppressive and authoritarian.
But for all those manipulation, Japanese denial has been extremely insulting and unnecessary, which I have been saying all the time.
> I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.
Not sure how did you get the impression that Chinese don't have the same level of sentiment towards Britain?
I suggest you google what happened in Nanjing and the 731 unit. And see for yourself why they evoked stronger mental reactions.
But still, like I expressed elsewhere, to question people's feeling based on hypothetical political motive is such a CCP way of thinking. I have to say that a lot of people have lost the battle against CCP.
So based on a limited pool of my Chinese friends and work there I have never experienced any resentment towards the British.
Nor do the Chinese show anger towards Koreans who made up a significant proportion of the Japan imperial force.
I'm aware of the history of China. It's telling that it was the USA after the war that played up Japan's aggression in China. Now the invasion was bad, but was it unique in its brutality? The 1850s civil war in China was way worse.
Why the lack of focus on Europeans not apologizing for what they did in Asia/China?
Why the bombardment of films about the evil Japanese invading but not the Europeans?
I've seen anti-japanese posters in China never seen anything on Europeans.
I am not sure what's your motivation of continue this motivation analysis on my feeling towards brutality.
I am always frustrated by the general skeptics applied on any comments where China and/or Chinese people were painted as the victim.
Doesn't it appear universal that feelings of people because of recent historical events should be respected?
To answer your question again, WWII is the most recent historical events... Of course people are going to have fresher memory of them. If people apply same emotional response to all historical events, USA should have a civil between Indian, African Americans, White, and Mexican people all the time.
Why such self-evident rationale automatically excluded from anything related to China/Chinese people? Was this racism? I cannot find any other execute...
Honestly, I found Cyberpunk really underwhelming and basically stopped playing. Apart from 1 or 2 moments (spider bot is cool,hotel theft job alright.)
It's just very run and gun. And uniteresting. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I'd love it to be a mix of syndicate (if you know that game), Detroit, and something like a point and click game. Something with a ton of interaction and only a bit of fighting.
I barely ever run and gun. I squat and hack. But no matter what method you use, it seems you will quickly overpower everything due to AI/balancing issues. still enjoying it immensely though.
I've been in very few fights so far, and most of my "gameplay" has been hiding and slowly netrunning my way through buildings, taking out enemies via hacks.
Of course, I occasionally screw up and end up lobbing grenades until I stop getting shot at, but so it goes.
The only reason I was interested in this game was immersion of a rich world. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it was something like, sit at an ultra cool street cafe, and watch what happens in night city. To let the world come to me if I was only willing to listen and watch. A world where there is mystery and intrigue, but not fed to you. A world where you buy a coffee, later look at your bank statement, find that he's copied your bank credentials, and stealing from his customers in small withdrawals. Only to learn he's a small time side hustler with a thing for nutcracker dolls.
Netrunner (the card game) is what drew me to it. I don't think the interactions in the game are interesting. The AI awful.
I don't find the game play interesting - but I like 'old man' games (Detroit I loved for examples).
Just an opinion
The best quests in the game are the ones that are mostly dialog with characters. Many of those were quite fantastic, in my opinion. The shooting missions were definitely the dominant ones and underwhelming, but the dialogue-centric ones are what made me play to the end and ultimately I was not disappointed.
> I'm sure I'm in the minority
Nah, that sounds pretty cool. I'd play something like that. Especially since as I said above, the interaction-heavy quests were the best ones.
I’d love a modern day syndicate. I’d be afraid though, that they’d ruin it like they did Dungeon Keeper ... better of trying to pick it up on GoG or something ...
Highly recommend netrunner, it's asymetrical with one side trying to hide points face down while the other side tries to find them. Great fun. Having played a ton of Keyforge, Netrunner, Hearthstone, and MtG - Netrunner still is my favorite. However it's the steepest learning curve. It really took us both a while to even get through a whole game. Once it clicked though it became an instant favorite. Also it's discontinued so you can get a whole ton of cards by just buying someone's collection.
I deeply regret writing my novel. It took an agonising 8 years when I was desperate to get it out as soon as possible. The issue was that I wanted a certain level of quality. I ended up self publishing on Amazon :/
I try not to think about what I could have done with the time: study math, programming, do stand up comedy etc. etc.
I understand your pain, but I want to ask: did you put much effort into marketing it after publishing? A lot of writers put 99% of their effort into writing, and by the time they've finished the book they're out of energy to pursue the marketing aspect. This is compounded by the fact that talented writers are not necessarily good at the marketing side of things.
The key is to persist with marketing until it either succeeds, or you've got clear evidence that most readers don't like it enough. If you're not good at marketing, find people who are.
Sometimes, the key to success, especially if you've got a quality product, is to persist after most people would have thrown in the towel.
That can happen. But in a significant (the majority?) number of cases of patients diagnosed with Schizophrenia there is no difference between their brains and 'normal' people when comparing MRI scans. Note this is with early onset - the "medication" provided for schizophrenia is well known to cause large structural changes in the brain.
Totally Agree. I think everyone should go through a 6-12 month period of not reading newspapers and see how you feel. I did that and I felt much happier, and more knowledgeable (instead reading science,math, literature).
The problem with newspapers (even high brow newspapers) is that they encourage negative emotions (anger, fear, envy), are irritatingly political / full of identity politics or are full of repetitive facts (another uniformed brexit article etc.) or plain old hot air gossip.
Instead of daily newspapers take a long term view and look at the news once every quarter or two from a quality publication such as the Economist/ financial times etc.
