🇯🇵 I often see endless third world resentment toward the West and feel only pity.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. We lost everything. We didn't scream about trauma or demand endless reparations. We rebuilt. Today these cities are beautiful.
So, drop the victimhood. Stop blaming history. Change and build something or otherwise get used to being disliked.
No Japanese person forgets Hiroshima.
No Japanese person forgets Nagasaki.
But that doesn’t mean I’m going to look at an American kid, student, tourist, or friend living today and aim 80-year-old hatred at them.
Some people see that and say, “Japan is just bowing down to America.”
No.
We simply don’t mistake endless hatred for pride.
Remembering the past and being ruled by the past are not the same thing.
And if you can’t even understand something that basic, maybe that’s why your country is still stuck behind.