[lit-ideas] Re: Not very neighbourly
- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:07:08 -0400
Lawrence: You wouldn't know that this is still a Communist country
listening to him. And he only mentions Mao once in passing.
Eric: Nor does he acknowledge that Mao, by latest estimates, killed 50
million noncombatants, bringing him close to Stalin's 62.9 million.
Lawrence, I cited the Martin Jacques' video to present a quick clip on
how the culture views itself.
Resentment goes one way--superiority complex to mask inferiority
feelings--and contempt sometimes follows. The WW2 Japanese also thought
they were the cat's pajamas, the Nazis the master race, just as, much
earlier, British contempt cost them their American colony...all the way
back to the Melian Dialogue, I guess.
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