• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Is there anywhere that wasn’t or isn’t fucked up at some point in history?! Humans are shitty. Ancient humans were even worst (very boring, smelly and short life)

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    10 months ago

    I mean Japan it this way with USA / Korea, and China probably as well? USA doesn’t really learn Asian history enough to get the backstory.

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      In total, between 1965 and 1973, 312,853 South Korean soldiers fought in Vietnam; Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture and Communications in an unofficial investigation[6] estimated they killed 41,400 enemy fighters and 5,000 civilians.[7] After the Vietnam war, there were thousands of children of mixed Korean and Vietnamese descent, called Lai Dai Han, born of Korean workers or soldiers and local Vietnamese.[8] Reportedly, many resulted from widespread “My Lai-style massacres” that[9] involved the rape of Vietnamese Women by South Korean soldiers.[8] Various civil society groups continue to hope for a formal investigation and apology into these events.[10]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea–Vietnam_relations

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      South Korean (ROK) soldiers were heavily involved in the US-Vietnam war and had a reputation for being effective but brutal. Maybe this is related to that?

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    I mean, even from their own perspective, they’ve had a very unpleasant history, especially the last hundred-fifty years or so

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      They’ve reached the point of deserving it. Modern Korean society is completely brainrotted by capitalist and right wing influence.

      In the next 10-15 years we are going to see what real late stage capitalism is like, and it will be in South Korea.

      A toast to the future.

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        10 months ago

        Are you a tankie or do you just think it’s cool and edgy having takes as immature as “government bad therefore they deserve it”

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          It’s unnecessary to assume they’re a tankie. My guess is someone who has experienced that life first hand? If you’ve seen movies like Parasite you get an idea of mindset and culture OP is talking about. Of course it’s not all as extreme as OP says, but there are reasons why the term Hell Joseon is part of the culture there, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Joseon

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    10 months ago

    For anyone wondering about the anime girl’s source, she’s from Future Diary.

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    10 months ago

    America absolutely wrecked the situation in Korea and for little other reason than rabid anticommunist sentiment.