Hi Ron!
FT>Hitler had the model you seem to espouse down pat.  I imagine 
FT>that Gengis Kahn did too. 
 RM> A bit loaded, don't you think ..... 
I wouldn't do that Ron -- you know me better than that. 
 RM> Out of curiosity, and
 RM> keeping in mind the traditional Japanese xenophobia 
 RM> (actually it's more along the lines of "we're civilized and 
 RM> the rest of the world is barbarian"), would you also add the
 RM> Japanese to this list?  Certainly they have shown little 
 RM> regard for other cultures beyond absorbing those things they
 RM> felt worthwhile?  And, I suppose, one would have to define
 RM> "culture".....
Education is many things -- a friend of mine once brought a stack of 
photos to work his merchant seaman father had taken in mainland China 
during the 30's.  ...one photo shows a woeful looking young man kneeling 
with head bent before a Japanese officer holding a sword.  The next 
photo showed his head on the ground and while still in the kneeling 
position his neck was spurting blood into the air at least fifteen feet.
Another shot showed a rather simple but attractive young chinese female 
tied to a post, stripped to the waist -- officer w/ sword next to her.
The next pkoto showed he minus her breasts bleading profusely from 
the chest.
I'm not ignorant that the world can be cruel -- just hopeful that we 
can move from that as far and as fast as we can.
The historic photos in our own land of lynchings of Blacks and 
others is testimony we need to take it seriously.
 
Best,
 
-frank:)
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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