Comments on: Rewriting History: Controversial Japanese Textbooks http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Mescale http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-261317 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:33:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-261317 How does “oh yeah I’m definitely aware” become “I didn’t know” in your mind?

]]> By: Bob http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-261129 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:24:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-261129 How does “I didn’t know” become “it’s alright,” in your mind?

]]> By: Karenator http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-195562 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:17:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-195562 I realize you’re Japanese by the way. But what I had written still applies to those who don’t think that there is a world outside their country and America. We need to realize that there are 196 countries out there.

]]> By: Karenator http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-195557 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-195557 I see in your last sentences here your disclaimer to lesson outrage from those people that would cringe at an American daring to point out that another country just might be a tad, tad less than perfect. I think that your disclaimer was not only appropriate but necessary. However, when anyone criticizes anything-American (including Americans), typically those doling out the criticism want their readers to believe they are talking about an American anomaly. It comes from a place of anger, insularism, and believe it or not — nationalism. Is this an imbalance that only I recognize? It takes open eyes and lots of reading to discover this. At the same rate, since the US has become politically correct, there aren’t many Americans who talk about any country’s governments in any other tone but a highly positive one coming from a romantic place of naivete. Truth is, no government is anyone’s friend. No government is on the side of the people. None. This is all stemming from the gradual change in America’s education as can be found in “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”.

Anyway, I don’t believe that there is one nation that doesn’t hide their true history. You have to ask yourself why this happens to begin with. That is the only way to get half way closer to the truth. The larger conspiracy…. well, nobody would believe that. :-) We all need to find that one out for ourselves attained by digger deeper and asking questions.

]]> By: Joe4TheRecord http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-50932 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:54:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-50932 ORLY?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1088/did-whites-ever-give-native-americans-blankets-infected-with-smallpox

]]> By: Jeremy Rawley http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/22/japanese-textbook-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-50921 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17028#comment-50921 There is no way anyone deliberately infected the natives with smallpox blankets. Germ theory wasn’t known back then. They wouldn’t have known how to do so.

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