Sundar is indeed a Brahmin!, he actually went to same exact college as my dad (IIT Madras, #1 engineering school in the country). And Sunshine is exactly right about their penchant for getting an MBA and just being managerial. My dad is exactly like that. I guess that’s been the standard route for Tamilians, in particular, to escape poverty for a while now. My mom has had a much more exciting and innovative career – despite being in academia – because she loves pushing boundaries in research and discovery.
Also, I had never heard that clip of Nixon. That women in the video is so mad, hahahaha, you can feel the death glare coming off of her 😂
The part where he mentions AU and NZ troops in Vietnam was the subject of a movie called Danger Close. It's excellent - a rare find, made just a few years ago. Well worth a watch.
I saw it on Amazon Prime a few years ago, and I believe they included a new rendition of "I was only 19." I wrote my MA thesis on the war's effect on US-Australia relations, so I appreciate that there's finally a movie on the Anzacs
As a Dutch person I think I have some insight in the resentment or lack thereof in Europr after WWII.
I'm in my twenties, and I think my generation is the first one to really not care about the war. I notice my parents really do have a particular dislike for Germany, to the point thet would not consider it as a travel destination. My late grandfather seemed to have even stronger feelings, but he tended to avoid the topic. Interestingly, they do not feel this way at all about Austria. For quite a while there was a lingering suspicion around Germany. When German Reunification was first proposed, the Dutch Prime Minister was sceptical. Stating: "We like Germany so much, we'd prefer there to be two of them". Ever since the war there has been a meme if demanding back bicycles confescated by German soldiers. At first this had a serious element to it, though at this point it's only used in gest.
Still the resentment us far less than in East Asia. That I would attribute to Germany's attidude after the war. They have been far more apologetjc about the war and about the Holocaust than Japan has been. Every year or so, the Prime Minister of Japan attends a shrine of Japanese WW2 soldiers. Among which are recognised war criminals. I simply cannot imagine Olaf Schulz attending a Wehrmacht Cementary, one where Himmler is buried to boot. If he did, the situation would be quite different.
Secondarily, Germany practically finds most of the EU. This makes little difference in the Netherlands (also a net payer), but I imagine it makes a huge difference to Eastern European countries. Though still Polish politicians demand war reparation (mostly during election season).
Another thing I forgot to mention is that it's a myth that Japan hasn't apologized. They've apologized far more than most Western countries to the point that a former Taiwanese president said that they should stop. Japan is beloved in SE Asia and Taiwan. They paid the Philippines reparation, and in their Friendship Treaty with China in 1979 the Chinese agreed not to seek reparations and Japan apologized. Japan apologized for the comfort women issue in the 90s and offered compensation through the Asian Women's Fund, but leftists in Korea rejected since it was charity.
I visited Yasukuni Shrine a month ago, and it enshrines all Japanese servicemembers who died from the 1850s onward, not just WWIIers. The reason prime ministers visit is to mourn the loss of their citizens who threw their lives away in a disastrous cause. Nobody says the US president shouldn't be allowed to visit cemeteries for Vietnam vets even though it's considered a bad war by most Americans and foreigners.
This all gets back to my original point, which is that Japan is unfairly singled out because people equate its decades long imperial history with one 8-year war and don't allow Japan to do what's normal in other countries, such as paying respect to the fallen. Korea under Park recreated Imperial Japan's system of government in many ways and committed numerous atrocities in Vietnam, but nobody says Korea can't have a military or that Korean society should grovel to this day or that Korean presidents shouldn't be allowed to honor those who died for their country
Er, Japan isn't beloved by a lot of folks in Singapore. They don't mind the Japanese, but the nation itself is another matter. Yes, most of those people are old, but no, there's no getting around the history.
I knew some Singaporean officials in grad school, and some were total weebs. Lee Kuan Yew explicitly stated he was inspired by Japan in creating Singapore's rigid justice system. Overall, most people in SE Asia like Japan because the occupation was so brief, and they mostly associate Japan with pop culture
Weeb is a pretty good word for it. As much work as was put into creating that country by LKY, I fear the younger generation will one day get too soft and let it all slide into oblivion - I would love to be wrong about fearing this. Hopefully the Singaporean affinity for China will be stronger than all things American. Japan would be wise to do the same.
Based on what I've seen; which is just anecdotes, so take it with a grain of salt, young Singaporeans are basically like 2nd gen Asians in the US, which is to say extremely libtarded
It's also anecdotal, but I've been going back and forth to Singapore regularly since 2007 (got relatives there) and it really got worse with the addition of "smart" phones. The Chinese expression translates to "head down generation." Even the lack of muscle tone in the youth is more evident than back then - they do zero physical work and eat far too much carbs, sweets & seed oils.
Overall though, they still have mandatory military service for men, caning and the death penalty. There's no "refugees welcome" signs, zero tolerance for drugs and I'm not sure they ever knew what to make of the bizarre American BLM fad when it erupted, so maybe there is hope.
Hopefully in another generation the full story about WWII and not just the version written by the winners will be understood. In the meantime, we need to do all we can to keep the USA from dragging everyone into WWIII, wherever they determine it should start.
The whole "white" category as a racial identity is deliberste misdirection so long as Jews can turn their "white" identity on and off as it suits them. That's why it's a trap to self identity as "white" regardless of appearance - I won't fall for that. Example, Russians and Ukrainians are mostly all white guys and they're killing each other anyway.
Sundar is indeed a Brahmin!, he actually went to same exact college as my dad (IIT Madras, #1 engineering school in the country). And Sunshine is exactly right about their penchant for getting an MBA and just being managerial. My dad is exactly like that. I guess that’s been the standard route for Tamilians, in particular, to escape poverty for a while now. My mom has had a much more exciting and innovative career – despite being in academia – because she loves pushing boundaries in research and discovery.
Also, I had never heard that clip of Nixon. That women in the video is so mad, hahahaha, you can feel the death glare coming off of her 😂
That’s So Raven was one of my favorite shows!
“I’ve noticed that people here consider me quite attractive” hahah YES niggas love an octaroon
Glad to see the band getting back together
The part where he mentions AU and NZ troops in Vietnam was the subject of a movie called Danger Close. It's excellent - a rare find, made just a few years ago. Well worth a watch.
I saw it on Amazon Prime a few years ago, and I believe they included a new rendition of "I was only 19." I wrote my MA thesis on the war's effect on US-Australia relations, so I appreciate that there's finally a movie on the Anzacs
It had to be a mistake, it was that good.
As a Dutch person I think I have some insight in the resentment or lack thereof in Europr after WWII.
I'm in my twenties, and I think my generation is the first one to really not care about the war. I notice my parents really do have a particular dislike for Germany, to the point thet would not consider it as a travel destination. My late grandfather seemed to have even stronger feelings, but he tended to avoid the topic. Interestingly, they do not feel this way at all about Austria. For quite a while there was a lingering suspicion around Germany. When German Reunification was first proposed, the Dutch Prime Minister was sceptical. Stating: "We like Germany so much, we'd prefer there to be two of them". Ever since the war there has been a meme if demanding back bicycles confescated by German soldiers. At first this had a serious element to it, though at this point it's only used in gest.
Still the resentment us far less than in East Asia. That I would attribute to Germany's attidude after the war. They have been far more apologetjc about the war and about the Holocaust than Japan has been. Every year or so, the Prime Minister of Japan attends a shrine of Japanese WW2 soldiers. Among which are recognised war criminals. I simply cannot imagine Olaf Schulz attending a Wehrmacht Cementary, one where Himmler is buried to boot. If he did, the situation would be quite different.
Secondarily, Germany practically finds most of the EU. This makes little difference in the Netherlands (also a net payer), but I imagine it makes a huge difference to Eastern European countries. Though still Polish politicians demand war reparation (mostly during election season).
Another thing I forgot to mention is that it's a myth that Japan hasn't apologized. They've apologized far more than most Western countries to the point that a former Taiwanese president said that they should stop. Japan is beloved in SE Asia and Taiwan. They paid the Philippines reparation, and in their Friendship Treaty with China in 1979 the Chinese agreed not to seek reparations and Japan apologized. Japan apologized for the comfort women issue in the 90s and offered compensation through the Asian Women's Fund, but leftists in Korea rejected since it was charity.
I visited Yasukuni Shrine a month ago, and it enshrines all Japanese servicemembers who died from the 1850s onward, not just WWIIers. The reason prime ministers visit is to mourn the loss of their citizens who threw their lives away in a disastrous cause. Nobody says the US president shouldn't be allowed to visit cemeteries for Vietnam vets even though it's considered a bad war by most Americans and foreigners.
This all gets back to my original point, which is that Japan is unfairly singled out because people equate its decades long imperial history with one 8-year war and don't allow Japan to do what's normal in other countries, such as paying respect to the fallen. Korea under Park recreated Imperial Japan's system of government in many ways and committed numerous atrocities in Vietnam, but nobody says Korea can't have a military or that Korean society should grovel to this day or that Korean presidents shouldn't be allowed to honor those who died for their country
Er, Japan isn't beloved by a lot of folks in Singapore. They don't mind the Japanese, but the nation itself is another matter. Yes, most of those people are old, but no, there's no getting around the history.
I knew some Singaporean officials in grad school, and some were total weebs. Lee Kuan Yew explicitly stated he was inspired by Japan in creating Singapore's rigid justice system. Overall, most people in SE Asia like Japan because the occupation was so brief, and they mostly associate Japan with pop culture
Weeb is a pretty good word for it. As much work as was put into creating that country by LKY, I fear the younger generation will one day get too soft and let it all slide into oblivion - I would love to be wrong about fearing this. Hopefully the Singaporean affinity for China will be stronger than all things American. Japan would be wise to do the same.
Based on what I've seen; which is just anecdotes, so take it with a grain of salt, young Singaporeans are basically like 2nd gen Asians in the US, which is to say extremely libtarded
It's also anecdotal, but I've been going back and forth to Singapore regularly since 2007 (got relatives there) and it really got worse with the addition of "smart" phones. The Chinese expression translates to "head down generation." Even the lack of muscle tone in the youth is more evident than back then - they do zero physical work and eat far too much carbs, sweets & seed oils.
Overall though, they still have mandatory military service for men, caning and the death penalty. There's no "refugees welcome" signs, zero tolerance for drugs and I'm not sure they ever knew what to make of the bizarre American BLM fad when it erupted, so maybe there is hope.
Hopefully in another generation the full story about WWII and not just the version written by the winners will be understood. In the meantime, we need to do all we can to keep the USA from dragging everyone into WWIII, wherever they determine it should start.
The whole "white" category as a racial identity is deliberste misdirection so long as Jews can turn their "white" identity on and off as it suits them. That's why it's a trap to self identity as "white" regardless of appearance - I won't fall for that. Example, Russians and Ukrainians are mostly all white guys and they're killing each other anyway.
As a prospective passport bro I guess I will have to check this out 👀.