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Originally Posted by lostalex
What is a country then? maybe it is the language that is dividing us. What is a country and what do you understand the "DNA" of a country to mean?
I would say the "DNA" of a country is judged by it's actions and it's intentions. I would say that Japan could accurately be described as evil on both scores.
So what is your disagreement? spell it out for me.
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If you go back to Nedusa's post which led to my reply, where he said the following:
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The Second World War showed the cruel and heartless nature of most Japanese soldiers and you would have to assume this trait is hard wired into the Japanese DNA .
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I fundamentally disagree that any kind of cruel or heartless trait exists to begin with, or if it did, could ever be hard-wired into a whole nation. People are just people.
A country to me, is just a collection of people who live in a humanly defined piece of land.
There are times in history, when lots of countries could have been classed as inherently evil. England for most of it to be honest, and now we're the biggest bunch of pussies on the planet.
Americans for wiping out the indigenous people, or forcing the Chinese to build their railways and the associated crimes involved there.
We change and we learn.
03-02-2014, 10:23 AM
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