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> I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.

Not sure how did you get the impression that Chinese don't have the same level of sentiment towards Britain?

I suggest you google what happened in Nanjing and the 731 unit. And see for yourself why they evoked stronger mental reactions.

But still, like I expressed elsewhere, to question people's feeling based on hypothetical political motive is such a CCP way of thinking. I have to say that a lot of people have lost the battle against CCP.

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So based on a limited pool of my Chinese friends and work there I have never experienced any resentment towards the British. Nor do the Chinese show anger towards Koreans who made up a significant proportion of the Japan imperial force. I'm aware of the history of China. It's telling that it was the USA after the war that played up Japan's aggression in China. Now the invasion was bad, but was it unique in its brutality? The 1850s civil war in China was way worse.

Why the lack of focus on Europeans not apologizing for what they did in Asia/China? Why the bombardment of films about the evil Japanese invading but not the Europeans?

I've seen anti-japanese posters in China never seen anything on Europeans.

I am not sure what's your motivation of continue this motivation analysis on my feeling towards brutality.

I am always frustrated by the general skeptics applied on any comments where China and/or Chinese people were painted as the victim.

Doesn't it appear universal that feelings of people because of recent historical events should be respected?

To answer your question again, WWII is the most recent historical events... Of course people are going to have fresher memory of them. If people apply same emotional response to all historical events, USA should have a civil between Indian, African Americans, White, and Mexican people all the time.

Why such self-evident rationale automatically excluded from anything related to China/Chinese people? Was this racism? I cannot find any other execute...

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