> What's wrong with being competitors?
Nothing. My point is that they are competitors AT BEST. Unlike say our fellow anglo nations like canada/britain/new zealand/etc who are our "family/friends" at best.
My point is that china will never be our "friend/family".
> Japan gained the most public respect in the U.S. when it looked like they were kicking America's ass in manufacturing and high technology.
They did? Asians were mistaken for being japanese and killed. Doesn't seem like "respect". I know plenty of people who still hate the japanese to this day and blamed them for the decline of american industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Vincent_Chin
Sure, the chinese have overtaken the japanese now, but the "respect" is highly superficial.
> I was mainly saying that you don't tend to see the language used as a tool for propaganda.
Really? You don't see people mocking chinese for sounding "silly"?
> I'm just saying that their languages aren't being used in propaganda like German was used in anti-Nazi propaganda.
That's because there are other differences to attack the chinese. Germans are fellow white northerner europeans. We can't attack them for being "white like us". We have to find something different about them to attack. With the chinese, there are plenty of differences to attack.
> The only people I hear complain about (South) Korea are Japanese people
Really? I know military personnel stationed in south korea. I have friends who visited south korea on business. Many of them had bad things to say about them.
> Maybe I live in a bubble, but I would think I'd run into somebody with one of these prejudices over the years, if it were a big thing.
Maybe you do. I'm from NYC. Where did you grow up? I'm not saying EVERYONE hates them. I'm saying there are plenty of anti-chinese, anti-japanese and anti-korean sentiment in the US ( including highly liberal areas like NY metro ).
Why do you think Trump got elected bashing china, japan and korea?