That's a norm for Japanese. They receive the unique education since they are small.
Every society and culture have their own norm. We cannot blame their thinking, because this is their norm. But our norm is: "when someone attack me, i need to protect ourselves."
History explain different view of WW2. If you read Japanese history, they will said they force to have a war to extent their country. If you read Chinese history, they will said the Japanese is *** because of their dirty action.
Well, this Japanese soldier's diary is just a personal view, how your view is more important.
In my (non-silliness) opinion, proper history does not favour any side.
We all know about cover-ups countries do to their history books. Malaysia does it. Japan does it. They make sure students only learn what the government wants them to learn about the nation's history. What can be more sickening is when a country hides present situations from the nation, but that's another story.
The problem about history is that historians, being human, have a tendency to favour one side or the other. Thus, some facts may be exaggerated or the wordplay will make the event seem to have a good guy and a bad guy. The good guys will have continued emphasis on how they defeated the bad guys and the bad guys will have continued emphasis on the bad stuff they did.
This means what we learn is not the pure truth. In the end we will be led to think that so-and-so nation is the good nation and so-and-so nation is the bad nation. The only way, in my opinion, to prevent such injustice, is that history is written without adjectives, and basically full of statistics.
Of course, this would be highly unlikely because it would make history the boring-est topic in the world XP
A good way I've discovered about learning History in Singapore however, are eyewitness accounts... from both sides =) (I don't remember having that back in Malaysia) It sheds a whole new kind of light on various topics, and we realize that in history, there aren't really any absolute good or bad nations. Just a bunch of political fools fooling around with their power.
So yes, it is good to read the account by a Japanese =P
店员阻止你抄下来是没错的，你要让这些思想入侵你的脑袋，就需要付$$$ =/
ReplyDeleteThat's a norm for Japanese.
ReplyDeleteThey receive the unique education since they are small.
Every society and culture have their own norm.
We cannot blame their thinking, because this is their norm.
But our norm is: "when someone attack me, i need to protect ourselves."
History explain different view of WW2.
If you read Japanese history, they will said they force to have a war to extent their country.
If you read Chinese history, they will said the Japanese is *** because of their dirty action.
Well, this Japanese soldier's diary is just a personal view, how your view is more important.
我挺同意你朋友的看法。的确，每个社会都存在着各自的思想，背景和文化。但是我们的想法也不能太过于偏激。虽然我也很痛恨二次大战的日本人，他们实在给前人带来太多的痛苦，但也因为这样启发了后嗣的我们。纵使他们刻意改变历史，我们也不能只是一味在抱怨,而忘了现在。当然，你会回顾以前的历史，会有这样激烈的反应，是很难能可贵的。试问现在有多少人会这样做呢？现在的人都忽略了以前，然而才会造成至今仍无法融合的社会。历史是给人们最大最好的启示。希望人们引以为鉴，勿重蹈覆辙咯！这才是最重要的吧？！这只是我的看法，切勿停留这段话太久哦！
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ReplyDeleteIn my (non-silliness) opinion, proper history does not favour any side.
ReplyDeleteWe all know about cover-ups countries do to their history books. Malaysia does it. Japan does it. They make sure students only learn what the government wants them to learn about the nation's history. What can be more sickening is when a country hides present situations from the nation, but that's another story.
The problem about history is that historians, being human, have a tendency to favour one side or the other. Thus, some facts may be exaggerated or the wordplay will make the event seem to have a good guy and a bad guy. The good guys will have continued emphasis on how they defeated the bad guys and the bad guys will have continued emphasis on the bad stuff they did.
This means what we learn is not the pure truth. In the end we will be led to think that so-and-so nation is the good nation and so-and-so nation is the bad nation. The only way, in my opinion, to prevent such injustice, is that history is written without adjectives, and basically full of statistics.
Of course, this would be highly unlikely because it would make history the boring-est topic in the world XP
A good way I've discovered about learning History in Singapore however, are eyewitness accounts... from both sides =) (I don't remember having that back in Malaysia) It sheds a whole new kind of light on various topics, and we realize that in history, there aren't really any absolute good or bad nations. Just a bunch of political fools fooling around with their power.
So yes, it is good to read the account by a Japanese =P
是的，我让自己不轻信“历史”和多阅读更多不同作者编辑的书，吸取和过滤更多的资料。
ReplyDelete小叮铛在不是好咯~
或许这就是所谓的尽信书不如无书吧！感觉上上次我在给错观点，不好意思！看来我不应该在这留言。哈！真排塞！
ReplyDelete浩然啊，介绍你一位对历史蛮有共鸣的对象---涵妮。她在历史方面的知识不逊于你哦。时间若允许，你还可以跟她讨论讨论呢。
ReplyDelete浩然啊...不要听茶叶蛋仙！她老点你而已！
ReplyDelete哇，你的comment这个部分，越来越美味了
ReplyDelete茶叶蛋咖啡冰，哈哈
历史，一窍不通，不过现在正在通着
基本上，日本人民很惨
有一部戏，《东京审判》说关于...二战过后的啦，几好看下的，使中国拍的，可是没有中国一贯的讨厌...
说到这里，还没有借到你悲惨世界，
我现在去拿，哈哈