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Saturday, November 12, 2011 Swing Girls Japanese band plays ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ The Japanese take American culture very seriously, and excel at just about everything they try.They like it very much (an Orthodox priest I know lived in Japan), which is part of the Engrish phenomenon that comes from people not knowing English well (‘Hello, chief! Let’s talk, why not? I’ll give you premium answer question, 100%!’). They make mistakes either trying to write instructions for a product or trying to write T-shirt slogans in American slang (a sweet girl wearing a shirt that says ‘F*ck’ for example). Like the kanji-tattoo fad here some years ago: the language is decoration that’s not understood. Of course it works both ways: bad Japanese in a gaijin (non-Japanese) accent is sort of a national joke. The original: Reminds me: on Veterans Day I saw a double feature, Tora! Tora! Tora! (again) and The Longest Day. As much as I love the Greatest Generation, I don’t hate the Japanese. Provoked by Roosevelt (God have mercy on him for several reasons) they attacked military targets and had no intention of trying to conquer the US (to compete economically with the British, Americans and Dutch, they wanted an Asian empire like the US dominating the Western Hemisphere). Is the movie true that the Japanese meant to declare war before the attack but a malfunction Amazing that after nuking them (which was a war crime, as decent people then, from Admiral Leahy to Fr Feeney, knew), they like us. As for D-Day and all that, it’s a huge part of our national myth but I’m not sold on the cause of helping the USSR win the war in Europe (worse than the Nazis, with Roosevelt handing them half of Europe – Communists had pretty well infiltrated the government). America first: the Soviets and Nazis could have destroyed each other and that would have been that. Hitler flaked in the Battle of Britain: he didn’t want to squash the British. He hated the Russians and went after them, and that’s what did him in. The Germans were smart and skilled (Hitler was crazy but his generals were smart) but the Russians outnumbered them and had the weather (winter) on their side. 6:53 PM Permalink |
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