Interesting Videos Thread

[Sapphire]

I watched this in class. American soldiers watched this video before they went into war during WWII.

[Uchiha Barles]

I watched this in class. American soldiers watched this video before they went into war during WWII.

I'm not quite sure what to think about this. After watching it, all I see is a video about a clearly different people with a different culture, detailing the leader in what is almost certainly a 1-sided, biased fashion. I guess if I had gone through basic training and all the molding that comes with it, the video might have a different effect.

[Sapphire]

I'm not quite sure what to think about this. After watching it, all I see is a video about a clearly different people with a different culture, detailing the leader in what is almost certainly a 1-sided, biased fashion. I guess if I had gone through basic training and all the molding that comes with it, the video might have a different effect.

I think your first sentence is the biggest point of the video. I think the whole point of the video is to make the Japanese seem inherently different in every crucial way, less human, even. Anti-freedom, hive-minded, anti-democratic, etc. Easier to kill when they conflict your every American ideal.

[Uchiha Barles]

I think your first sentence is the biggest point of the video. I think the whole point of the video is to make the Japanese seem inherently different in every crucial way, less human, even. Anti-freedom, hive-minded, anti-democratic, etc. Easier to kill when they conflict your every American ideal.

For the life of me, I cannot see how the video was successful in doing that. At it's best, it made me respect the resilience of Japanese soldiers, and love some of the pretty costumes and dances. At its worse, it made me want to see the emperor dead, but even this feeling existed only momentarily before the application of any higher form of thinking. I wish I could see testimony of how actual soldiers of the era responded to this.