On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why is it then that many blacks obviously support US imperialism? Anyway as > you yourself admit Japan was imperialist. Is there some gene in blacks that > makes them anti-imperialist? >
Non-whites supporting imperialism would be like the classic black white-supremacist from the Chappelle Show: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/291638/clayton_bigsby/ Japan is a bit complicated; from what I understand, the Japanese elite in the course of the so-called Meiji restoration consciously adopted a policy of mimicking Western imperialist strategies for their own national development. Whereas in the West, imperialism was a somewhat spontaneous development, in Japan this was engineered from the top in a relatively short time-period. Indeed Hitler granted them the status of "honorary Aryans" to justify their alliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_Aryan -raghu. -- Q: What did the apple say to the orange? A: Nothing, apples don't talk. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
