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In some European countries, in elder generation there was also a custom that gentlemen, instead of a handshake with a woman, used to kiss a lady's hand (actually, it didn't have to be a real kiss, just a peck or bowing to her hand and pretending to kiss it). It was very common in the past, as a sign of respect to a lady, even in formal situations. Probably the origins of this custom was from the old times of the knights at the royal courts, and so on. Now it's of course considered as really outdated and the younger generations do not do it at all. But still, in my country quite a lot of elder men, like around 70 years old, practice this.
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In Poland birth rate per woman is currently 1,475 (so it's still much better than in Korea, although definitely not enough). I'm also from Poland, and I think it doesn't look like in the comment above, maybe in some cases, but not in all. A lot of people have quite good jobs. But they still don't want to have many children, very few have more than two, from different reasons. And of course, in our country most of people, so both men and women, do work. Because one have to work up till certain age to be able to receive own retirement pension later (it's a system of public retirement insurances). As a woman I would also be afraid not to work, to quit a job and be totally dependent only on a man, I think it would be irresponsible (because various things may happen in life, like a partner's death, illness, unemployment, divorce etc., then a woman will stay with nothing, no job, no proffessional experiences, no retirement pension etc.). But in the whole EU, unlike in some other countries, we have quite good system of maternity and parental leaves, leaves in case of a child is sick and others. So there are regulations aimed at safeguarding somehow the work-life balance, also to enable a woman's come back to work after having a child. So the topic of people not wanting to have many children, and it goes for both, so men and women actually, is much more complicated. Solutions are also not easy.
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Of course, I know the history and I've read about genocide acts committed then. Nevertheless, the consequences of the war started by Japanese and their acts during this war was also the dropping of the atomic bombs, in result of which all the civilians, no matter who they were, including women, children or infants perished in horrible sufferings, and those that survived still suffered a lot for many years. The scenes, pictures, films of this, as we all know, are horrible. So always in wars, started by various regimes now and then, in the end, as a consequence suffer the most the weakest, especially civilians, women, children, elder etc.
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About missionaries in Japan, the most well known Christian missionary from my country that came to Japan was saint Maximilian Kolbe. He came to Japan, to Nagasaki in 1930 and spent there six years. He learned Japanese. He founded in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono), that's still existing. To build the monastery he chose a place on the outskirts of Nagasaki, on the slopes of a mountain Hikosan (although it was said then not to be the best place for that). But thanks to this the monastery survived the atom bomb attack. And the Franciscians, after the atom bomb attack, were helping the victims. Maximilian Kolbe is known worldwide (among Catholics, but not only) also because of his heroic death in 1941 in the German death camp of Auschwitz when he volunteered to die in place of another prisoner (who had wife and children). And another Polish missionary known in Japan was friar Zeno Żebrowski, who also came to Japan in 1930 and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war. He died in Tokyo in 1982. In his work he cooperated for instance with Satiko Kitahara, a Japanese woman, whose beatification process has been opened by the Pope and is still ongoing.
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What a total rubbish. LMAO, just made up lies. Upper Silesia is only one region of Poland, from all the Polish regions, and it had a specific history for centuries - that's why there were people of various nationalities living there, since many centuries. But after the I WW, there were three Polish uprisings against Germans (so-called Silesian uprisings), and finally in 1922 these region came back, after centuries, to Poland. And in September 1939, when Germans attacked Poland, many of the Polish inhabitants of Upper Silesia were fighting against Germans. For instance, famous was the defence of a Parachute Tower by Polish scauts in Katowice - and those young boys and girls, fighting heroically with much bigger German forces, were murdered by Germans. Up till now, when You walk through the forests in Katowice and its surroundings, You can see many places, with monuments commemorating Poles mudered by Germans there, places of mass executions and exhumated later graves. But of course, in Silesia, being a specific region because of its history, lived also many Germans. And many of inhabitants of that region were forcefully taken by German Nazist to Wehrmacht (they had often no choice). But saying that some of inhabitants of Upper Silesia who had to serve in Wehrmacht is more than all Polish armed forces, Home Army, underground state or resistance movement fighting for the whole war against Germans with enormous sacrifice - it's the biggest lie that one can make up. As well as some fake rubbish about some imaginary truce of Poland with Hitler (it's like Putin's alternative version of history and reality, so one big lie). By the way, I live in the Upper Silesia.
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It seems that for interviewed Japanese people relationships or marriage is not about being really close to each other and to really care about your partner. Such relationships or marriages seem to be rather for reasons of social status or some economic interests, or at most only to have and raise children and to share a household - but not to be real life partners to each other. And if people spent most of their lives in their work and then after work they go to prostitutes or cheat on their partners, they in fact do not have much in common and are indifferent to each other, like strangers. They live not with each other, but only next to each other. That is no real partnership, relationship or family. In real, serious, adult relationship you cannot just separate such aspects as feelings, emotions, love, mutual trust, intimacy and sex as well, these all should just naturally go together between people who really want to be with each other and really care. And in this interview, it was so terrible when one of the girls was saying that she has a boyfriend, but she cheats on him, because she doesn't like him at all. It is so superficial and terrible to this person. Why she just doesn't not have enough respect to him as a person to break up with him. It is so fake and doesn't make sense at all to call something like that a real relationship and to stay in it. And also it is so cringe when one of the girls said that an important reason to go to a prostitute may be when men go there with their boss. In Europe, it would be considered completely unacceptable and just sick - having such experiences with your boss, having your professional and private, intimate life so mixed up.
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It's interesting to read about Japanese saints and beatified - like Satoko Kitahara (her beatification peocess is ongoing) or Ukon Takayama (beatified by Pope Francis in 2017). Or about another Japanese Catholic, Takashi Nagai. Also about Polish saint (known by many Catholics, in many countries) Maksymilian Kolbe - who came to Japan in 1930 and spent six years there. He established in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono - The Garden of the Immaculata), still existing. To build a monastery he chose a place on slopes of a nearby mountain Hikosan (although it was said then them it's not a good place for that). But thanks to such decision the monastery survived, not destroyed, the atom bomb attack. After the attack and after the war also the Franciscians were helping the victims of the war, orphans, homeless, sick etc. Saint Maksymilian Kolbe himself came back in 1936 to Poland - he is worlwide known for giving his life voluntarily for another prisoner in Auschwitz German Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered (in a hunger bunker) on 14th August 1941 (the prisoner he sacrificed his life for, thanks to him, survived whole war). And another Fransiscian friar who worked for his whole life in Japan, was friar Zeno Żebrowski - he came to Japan in 1930 together with saint Maksymilian Kolbe, but he stayed, and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war, he was also cooperating with above mentioned Satoko Kitahara (who is going to be beatified by Pope). He died in Tokyo in 1982.
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@casper-z9rkls6gl I don't know the names You wrote, only Mother Teresa - which for me is obviously, without any doubt, a saint in Heaven. I've read a book, with her writings, titled "Come Be My Light. The private writings of the saint of Calcutta". I am Catholic, and as I've mentioned above, for me the true Christian Church, established by Christ, is the Roman Catholic Church (by the way, most of people in my country are Catholics, since centuries). But I also believe that even a murdered can sometimes be saved, because of great God's Mercy - although it's not easy, such things to happen, because such person must truly regret, be able to regret because of the harm done (not just because of fear of punishment), for what such person did. Which not often is possible, just pretended. But we cannot say it for sure, only God knows. It's doesn't mean that such person, if truly regretting and asking God for forgiveness, will be in Heaven, just after his death. Because everyone can face God only if his soul is pure - that's why there's also the Purgatory, where God's Mercy and Justice can be fulfilled both, and the soul can be cleansed. But it's doesn't mean that a sinner cannot be saved, so not condemned for eternal hell, if he asks truly for God's forgiveness, regrets for all the sins, and asks for God's Mercy.
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@Volkbrecht That's true, it may indeed be also like this, in not so rare cases. And also without people's aware decision and their will about it, it just happens. And it's not easy, for sure. But also we can see nowadays that in the younger generations, being now in their twenties, there are more people saying they don't want to have in future any children at all. And also in fact there are really few families who have more than two children. Many people, since longer, have only one child or at most two (in case of majority of eople I know it's actually like this). By the way, I also don't have any brothers or sisters. However, immigration policy, especially such as is being forced currently in the EU (so accepting big waves of illegal immigrants, coming from all over the world, very often from cultures hostile towards European values, culture and even legal order) is not any solution, but it only brings more serious problems and threats, especially now when there are also so many serious risks coming from hostile undemocratic regimes.
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@leno_o17 Yes, as You wrote. And there are more differences, like religion and historical baptism of Poland (which in case of Poland was from Roman Catholic Church, not Orthodox one, which meant in history not only religion itself, but cultural sphere), alphabet (in Poland Latin, not cirillic), and many other differences. So it's definitely not like the person above wrote. Just the opposite - after the WW II for the rest of the world countries that used to be at the communist side of the Iron Curtain started to be "Eastern Europe". But communism lasted fortunately only 50 years, and history of Poland is over 1000 yeas. So rather those that being Polish have some complexes, still call Poland "Eastern", which is wrong.
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It was really interesting interview, with some interesting opinions. For instance, about perspectives of Japan in future. Probably, it's impossible, even if people wish so, to leave everything completely unchanged. However, I agree with the comments saying that a wise, reasonable immigration policy is indeed required, not such as in some European countries, where uncontrolled immigration and no real assimilation of immigrants with the country's culture have been causing a lot of serious problems. And I also didn't know about these drinking habits in Japan. In consequence, is there in Japan a bigger social and health problem with alcoholism, if people tend to drink almost everyday? In my country people of course drink alcohol, but I think that few people drink so often, like six days a week (it's easy to get addicted soon in this way). And you usually don't go to drink with your boss, unless there is some special occasion, for instance some integration trip once a year or sth like that. I like also what he says about visiting some places other than only those most known tourist attractions and big cities. I'd like to go to such places one day where you can see also the beauty of Japan's nature.
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@GetUnwoke It's not like that. Most of the modern, developed countries, including those the richest as well, have problems with low birth rate. So it's not at all like this. And about immigration, it poses many, also very complicated problems, which we can see for instance in Western European, also in some Scandinavian, countries. So the authorities must think over really carefully about sound, wise, appropriate immigration policy, not resulting in severe risks and problems.
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@Darur1308 OK, I understand what You mean. But the video is not at all about this really, but only about some people saying just that they converted, mostly because of marriage reasons, that's all. So it's not really about difficulties in practicing any religion in Japan. And I think it would be more interesting about different religions, also about Christianity of course, because it may be interesting if people are able to practice their religion if they go for a longer time to Japan. So it's not only about Muslims. For instance, in case of Christianity there are different churches, like Catholic, various Evangelical ones that differ a lot, Orthodox etc., and probably it's not so easy for everyone to find a church they belong to and that's not far, especially outside the biggest cities.
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I speak Polish, English and German. I also know a bit of French, as I had it in my primary school, and in my secondary school I had some Latin. It also depends much at what level someone really knows a language. Because it's not so very hard to learn more languages, when it's only about some basic phrases, in basic everyday life situations. Much harder is to master a language to be able to use it in advanced, proffessional situations, with proffessional vocabulary in various fields, like for instance law, medicine, accounting and financial reporting etc.
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I personally cannot understand why some people, especially younger generations nowadays, are not more interested in learning foreign languages. It's a real pleasure to know other languages. I know two foreign languages, namely English and German (German more passively, as I don't use it in my professional life, mostly I like to read books in German, just for fun). At school, I had also some French and later also some Latin. But if I find more time, I'd like to learn some more foreign languages. So in this video, there should be also another question - if they can speak any other foreign language. But if they are in fact taught English for many years at schools, they should know it at a communicative level.
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It's not true about air pollution. Poland is a member of the EU since 2004 and had to apply the EU common environmental policy and standards. There's only an issue of using coal to heat some of the private houses (not all, some only of the older ones). But it may be some problem with it only under certain atmospheric and geographical conditions, definitely not all the time and not everywhere. So only when it's more cold and people heat their houses more, so only on same days in winter, and when there's for instance low atmospheric pressure and no wind. And in places located in a valley or similar. So not everywhere, not all the time, only in some places, only on some days, only about coal usage in some private houses. And actually the same problem is also in other European countries with similar weather, atmospheric and geographical conditions, where people use coal to heat the houses. So it's a stereotype about all this generally called "air pollution" nowadays in Poland.
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@holoinfinity4691 It's a bit surprising that people in the US have such attitude as You say - taking also into account that they, as a nation and a state, have different origins and system of acquiring citizenship (so-called "ius soli" rule, so by birth at the US territory) than in many other countries, being historically ethnically more homogenous. So it's obvious that in country having such origins and rules about citizenship like the US, there are people whose ancestors came there from all over the world, but they all became a part of one nation. So it's understandable that assuming, just by someone's ethnicity, that they cannot speak English or are not American can ideed be regarded as very rude. It all just shows ignorance of people and unfortunately, as You've mentioned above, flaws in education of many people (not only in the US) about the world, geography, history and different cultures. But actually it happens also in Asian countries as well. For instance, I watch sometimes the channel of an American YouTuber "Oriental Pearl", and she is so often called by various passersby (especially in China, but in other Asian countries probably it happens as well) "a Russian" - just because she is blond, while in half of Europe, in so many nations, there are people with blond hair as well. So something like this unfortunately may happen everywhere, to many people (of different races, nationalities or ethnicities). But it's definitely not pleasant. After all, each nation has it's own identity, history (sometimes also much difficult relations with other nations of a region), traditions and culture - so it's understandable that no one wants to be confused (intentionally or not) with other nations/ethnicities, being so much different. And as You wrote, especially at such an international event it's indeed really shameful for the organizers.
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Yes, Akita is well known. And I can add for instance a name of Satoko Kitahara, whose beatification process is ongoing (there's an article about her in Wikipedia, also in English). She cooperated for instance with Franciscans from Nagasaki, especially with Friar Zeno Żebrowski - who came to Japan, to Nagasaki, in 1930 together with St Maksymilian Kolbe (Father Kolbe came later, after established a monastery in Nagasaki, to Poland, and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp by Germans, giving his life voluntarily in exchange for another prisoner there). The monastery survived the atom bomb attack on Nagasaki, and I think it still exists.
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@lindarussell4735 Well, I know much about the Second World War. I come from the country that suffered the most, from both Germans and Russians (cooperating with each other in invasion, in September 1939, on basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), during the war, where multiple terrible, unimaginable, inhuman mass genocide acts were committed by both of these invadors in that times. And most of the people in my country know a lot about the Second WW (much more then people from Western European countries), also about campaigns, fronts in different countries, battles etc. - as our soldiers fought in many war fronts, in many important battles, in various countries during the Second WW. And history is very important to us, as we need to remember the suffering and sacrifice of so many.
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@IzzyKawaiichi It's Your opinion. Catholics believe there's purgatory. Of course, I'm not any theologian, but in the Bible there are more places, where there's mentioned the need of praying for the souls of those that are already dead. And it's obvious it's not about those who are already pure in Heaven, because they don't need this. And not for those that are in hell, condemned, apart from God forever. So although there's no such word used "purgatory", but there's a notion of purification after death before one is ready to enter Heaven, to stand before God. And the prayers and sacrifices of those still living can aid in that cleansing, of those souls that need it. Without that notion it would be hard to talk about justice as well as about mercy of God, it would be definitely unjust or merciless. So we just know it's in the Bible, and believe in that since thousands of years already, and will believe. But of course, no one forces You also to believe in that, after all everyone has his own free will. And everyone of us will know themselves, sooner or later, if we want or not, we will see ourselves.
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@IzzyKawaiichi As I've read about it (but of course, as I've mentioned already above, I'm not any theologian, just an ordinary person), it's for instance already even in the Old Testament, in the Second Book of Maccabees, some other also. But of course, I know that Protestant Christians don't believe in it. We do. And also not being a Catholic, You don't believe in any apparitions of Jesus or Mother of God, srill happening - but we do, it's enough just to mention Fatima or St Faustina Kowalska, or Father Pio of Petrelcina, and other. You don't have to believe in it, but we do. But I don't believe in it of course only because of these apparitions. For me it's just totally logical, that's why I agree with the Catholic Church views on that matter. Because most of us (only some living a saint live already on this world), when we die, we won't be so pure to be ready to stand before God. That's why souls, those not deserving to be condemned, not chosing to reject God and going to hell, need to be purified in order to be able to stand before God, to stay with Him. That's why we pray for our relations and other people that passed away, but are still in purgatory, need our prayers, we are the one Church with them. Of course, You don't have to believe in it, but we do. And as I've already said above, it's not even worth any quarrels, because afterall we will find out all ourselves, in not such a long time, how it really is. For us, purgatory shows both, God's Mercy and His Justice as well.
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It's so sad. It seems that many of these children and teenagers experienced much violence and mistreatment, and often probably also earlier at their home or school environments. And everyone does nothing, no one cares, but they just pretend not see or even further abuse them. These youngsters suffer, have severe psychological problems, resulting in hurting themselves, commiting suicides, ruining their young lives with drugs and prostitution. It shouldn't be like this. The state and the society should do much more to develop and implement a healthy system to prevent such problems and solve them, starting from early stages, when violence, mistreatment, psychological or mental problems begin, not leaving them alone. And it's very often not easy to help such teenagers, who already experienced so many bad things in their lives. So there should be people who are taught and prepared how to be able to help such teenagers, how to get to them and who would care. The state and society should really care about such young lives. Also taking into account that they do need young people, because of demography showing that their society is getting old and there's much too little young people who will work in future for the retired. So it does matter that lives of such teenagers are not ruined.
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You know, despite all the development some people, of some nations, haven't unfortunately changed. Watching the pictures and scenes from the invaded Ukraine is like watching the scenes from the II World War, in countries which were then invaded by the Soviet Union. The same pictures, the same scenes - of genocide, crimes against humanity, mass graves of victims, destruction, rapes, violence, torturing of innocent people, killing of civilians, stealing, and so on. Although almost 80 years passed, it looks like nothing has changed. And it's tragic. Now we can see that all these aggresive imperialisms indeed tend to escalate, which is so sad, that even after all horrible things that the humanity already experienced in the past, especially the II WW, still nothing has really changed.
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@Tito_michi LOL. What a "paradise". They have also a totalitarian state, schools where children are taught mainly rubbish about how to worship their dictator, purges, genocide, gulags, forced labour, tortures, terror, totalitarian control over people's lives, massive system of denunciations, very often fake ones, lack of basic goods, empty shelves in shops (unless you're a communist prominent), and so many other "wonderful" things under such a regime. We in Europe experienced all these communist "good" ourselves, since the very beggining of communism, especially during Stalinist times, and for next 50 years. So we know very well how the reality of such states look like. Although in Europe it was still much better than in North Korea.
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@TedEhioghae Of course, there are differences, because of various schisms that occured thoughout ages, because of various reasons. But the most important is that all these Christian Churches believe in Christ as God and Savior, so we try to look for what we have all in common, in ecumenical cooperation, rather than concentrating only on the differences. Of course, for me as a Catholic, the only true Church, established by Christ Himself, is the Catholic Church. But it doesn't mean I cannot respect other Christians, although we do differ, in various dogmatic issues.
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SabinaS.N.O.W. I'm also a viewer, subscribed already since some longer time, and as such that's obvious I can express my opinion, like everyone else. After all, that's the point of such public, international channels. And as I've already stated above, I think that generally religion is a very sensitive topic. So taking into account that subcribers are also different, from many different countries, of many religions, it should be about more of the religions, in a fair proportion (at least about all those biggest ones), or about none of them. That's my opinion to which, like everyone else, I'm entitled, and which I can express freely. After all, this is why there are the comment sections on YouTube channels, for everyone.
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Yes, it's often like this. If a woman has a stable relationship/marriage, with a trustworthy partner, being able to earn for living of the family (but also not in such a way that he is not a part of a family, but has to work as slave for long hours everyday, not being able to spent time at home, with his family) - then she is more willing to have more children. But in really rare cases it works like that. Usually both of the parents just have to work. And in that case there should be proper labor regulations, safeguarding women the ability to combine being a mother and working, like protection of their posts while being pregnant, safeguarding the ability to return to work after maternity leave, appropriate system of paid leaves, work conditions etc. And a woman should have a choice if she wants to come back to work, always. Because she also may just don't want to become completely dependent on her partner.
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@emigrant4life It's just not true. There are stereotypes like this about Polish, because they generally oppose to the EU current immigration policy, accepting big, sudden, uncontrolled waves of illegal immigrants, that causes many problems and threats about state's safety and public order, seen in some other European countries. And also because Poland is quite homogenous ethnically, while in other European countries it looks different - because Poland was never a colonial state and never had any overseas colonies. But ordinary people, at least vast majority of them (because there can always be some marginal exceptions, everywhere) are definitely not racists. Just as an example, You can check YouTube channels: "Kim jestem" - of a Korean living since years in Poland (and also his Korean parents are living with him in Poland) or "Ignacy z Japonii" - of a Japanese also living since more years in Poland. On both channels they have so many so positive comments, from so many Polish people. And there are more examples like that. Generally, Polish people accept those immigrants, that respect their culture, values, country and legal order. I can only admit that Polish are for sure much more doubtful about muslim immigrants (because of their often hostile attitude towards other religions, culture, values etc., and problems arising because of that). And about Ukrainians Polish are so "intolerant" (it's of course irony) that when the war started all the Polish opened widely not only the borders, but private houses, taking whole Ukrainian families, for more weeks, directly to their houses, helping millions of them. Making so many packages with necessary things, like food, medical products, cosmetics, collecting private money to help invaded Ukrainians - doing this within families, at workplaces, at churches. Almost everyone was doing this in Poland, to help the Ukrainians. They received also many social and other benefits from Polish state, could learn for free at Polish schools, could get health care, and many others etc. So all this was indeed, so "intolerant".
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I generally agree with everything that was said in this video, about forcing insane leftist ideology on many other countries (and I am from the EU country). And I can say that there are European societies, being within the EU, that also struggle with similar problems, where most people just don't accept such ideology - when for instance a man can say that he identifies himself as a woman, or as one of several other so-called "genders", not having to do anything with biology of a human, where homosexual couples would be allowed to adopt children, when there are demoralizing, weird parades of sexual minorities at the streets, being more important than freedoms of the majority, even than protection of children, and so on (fortunately, lwe don't really have all of this yet so much in my country, but there's a risk it may change also here) - so societies that want to preserve their values and identity. So please, when using the term "Western countries", define what you mean by this term. And remember that the countries and their societies on other continents, so not only in America, but also in Europe, also within the EU, are much different and divergent, especially with regard to such ideological issues and views. Saying generally "Western" about all American and European countries, their societies and people is like saying that all countries, societies and people in Asia are just "Eastern" and exactly the same, in all the aspects, and share the same agenda in everything, which is obviously not true. And as it was said here, the SK has already anti-discriminatory rules embedded in their Constitution and other acts, for instance with regard to employment.
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@ignisilluminati Not all European countries had colonial past. My country (Poland) never had any overseas colonies. And despite distance, we have nowadays more contacts, and there's even cooperation between our countries, including military one (we buy currently quite a lot of military items from SK). Also more and more people, quite a lot currently, travel to South Korea as well as to Japan. And there are even some interesting, quite popular YouTube channels about SK and Japan in my country: about South Korea - "Pierogi z kimchi" and "Pyra w Korei" (of two Polish women living since years in SK) or "Kim jestem" (of a Korean living since years in Poland, with both of his Korean parents who also moved to Poland, and he speaks Polish perfectly). And about Japan, the most popular channel is of Gabriel Hyodo, who is half Polish - half Japanese (his Japanese father lives since years in Poland and has a Japanese language school in Cracow). This week Gabriel went also, as a tourist, to South Korea for the first time (usually he visits Japan, where he has a grandpa), and there's a whole video from SK of him. And also "Ignacy z Japonii", a channel of a Japanese who also moved to Poland, and he also learned to speak Polish perfectly. So nowadays people do travel, are interested in the world, learn languages (also in Poland there are language schools of Korean and of Japanese), and there is cooperation especially between states that are democratic ones. And there's even a factory of kimchi in Poland, of a Korean brand "Jongga" (a Polish-Korean factory), near Cracow (because we generally like pickled food). A lot of Koreans live also in Wrocław, where's an LG factory, so there are some Korean restaurants in this city. So nowadays various countries and people may cooperate, if they share views.
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@leelee12123 I visited Madeira few years ago (before Covid), and I really loved it. There's indeed much to do there, the island is diverse - it's for those who like ocean, as well as for those who like trekking and walking. The whole atmosphere was great there - although I think it's not for those that like some noisy, big parties in big resorts, it's more peaceful, which for me was an advantage. The views were great, people really nice, food tasty, especially fruits - I loved passion fruits, there's plenty of them there. I definitely would like to go there one more time - and maybe I will in future, because it's still much to see (for instance, I didn't manage to go to Porto Santo, or Ponta de São Lorenço, and some other places worth seeing also). By the way, I've recently heard in the news about problems with fires of forests there this year, I'm really sorry for the local people.
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@user-cnksi223 Wow, what a bunch of ignorant fake stereotypes, and what an attitude. Europe is not a country nor a nation. But a whole continent, where there are a lot of nations and countries with completely different history (since many centuries or thousands of years), traditions, languages, culture, landscapes, food, even appearance etc. So there's no such thing as "European pride". And You write that according to You Europeans (generally) treat Asians not good enough, when You Yourself having such a ridiculous attitude towards millions of people, towards more than 40 countries in Europe, that are so diverse, it's just a big joke. In fact, it looks like You are extremely xenophobic and nationalistic. And someone really must be completely blind, or spending whole time sitting in one room maybe (not going out, when being abroad), to say that people in the whole Europe don't have any nightlife, no social or cultural life. LMAO. When such nations as for instance Italians or Spanish and many, many others as well, are famous for they liveliness and very sociable nature, and for having rich social and cultural life. And there are so many various concerts, theaters, galleries, art, cultural life, sightseeing places etc., not mentioning pubs, clubs, and similar. So it's just ridiculous. What's the point at all to travel to other countries with such a horrible attitude, and in fact hate towards others, being just some of xenophobe and nationalist, not being able to see anything else. Yeah, and really, in Europe there are no shops opened 24-hours a day, it's an Asian invention. LMAO. And in my country in fact there live Koreans, quite a lot, some even decided to stay here for good - I watch for instance a YouTube channel of a YouTuber, who lives since many years in my country, and also his Korean parents are living with him since many years (I think that more than for 25 years already), and he has so many, only very positive comments - so really, very bad treatment, indeed (and there are many more examples like that). But they are just nice people (not having such hateful attitude like above). I really never met such an enormous xenophobe earlier.
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@alexandrakim4567 Parents shouldn't put too much pressure on their children's life, to the extent that makes their children completely unhappy. After all, it's not their life, these are not they who would live that life, but their children themselves. And often parents really want the best for their children, but despite that they are not able to see everything and properly understand how the world is changing. For instance, parents often want their children to have respectable and stable proffessions, like becoming a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant etc. But if someone really hates such proffession, and would like for instance some more creative or even artistic one (and are gifted in this direction), they will be always unhappy and hating their job. The same with other life choices. So really, parents shouldn't put such pressure as deciding about their children whole life, not taking into account what the children want. It's not their life. But probably not in all societies it looks like this, there are for sure differences.
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@homie3461 Generally, around the world there are two approaches to citizenship - one is so-called "ius sanguinis" (in Latin), meaning the citizenship by bloodline and the other is so-called "ius soli", meaning the citizenship by place of birth. So in the USA is "ius soli" system, and also in Canada and some countries in South America, like Brasil or Argentina. In European countries the main approach is "ius sanguinis" (with some rare exceptions, for instance when the parents of a child are not known or have no citizenship, and the child is born or found in a country). And allowing the double nationality is another thing. Actually, nowadays most of the countries, with some exceptions like Japan and few othe countries, allow having double citizenship.
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@small_fries7573 What You write just doesn't make sense and I must say I don't agree with it. Such thinking that because Jesus Christ died on the Holy Cross to redeem us, took our sins on Himself, doesn't mean that we will all go to Heaven no matter how we live our earthly life and what we do. How can You write that it doesn't matter if we keep the Commandments or not? In the Commandments all is about destroying by human acts the relationship with God and with the others, about doing harm, like killing, stealing, betraying, not respecting God and worshipping other, often evil, things more etc. So it's definitely, completely, obviously wrong, such way of thinking. That one can be a bad, horrible person, doing for his whole life only harm and evil, even killing, one can be an egoist not caring about anyone at all - and he don't even have to repent, ask for forgiveness and try to repair the harm done, and it all doesn't matter at all, because no matter what you do and how you live, you have quaranteed in advance a place in Heaven. So what kind of morality, not even religion, is it, such way of thinking? Of course, it matters much how we live, what we do, if we harm the others, what are our true intentions, how we act, if we help the others around us etc. And I am a Catholic and I love the Holy Catholic Church, established by Christ (although it doesn't of course mean that Catholics, being people, like all the other humans, are not sinners, because we all are). I really hope I will stay in the Catholic faith till my rest breath at this world. I love also the Mother of God, the saints to which we pray, the sacraments, the rosary. I believe that the Divine Mercy is the greatest feature of God, so everyone, even the biggest sinners, can be saved. But it most be also their will to be saved by God and His Mercy. God doesn't force us to be with Him, for eternity, against our own choice and free will. If we reject Him, live our lives bad and die not regretting for all the harm with done, don't ask God, with our free will, to forgive us, don't ask for His help and Mercy, don't care about it, it will be our choice, according to our free will given by God Himself to every human, to be condemned, by rejecting all the good, evil and love that God is. So it's not enough to just believe in God's existence, because even Satan knows that God exists, but he rejected God. And I also think that even those who were born in different cultures and in consequence don't know God, if they live a good life, allow the God's light and love in that way to their souls, will be saved, not condemned, because of God's Mercy. But it does matter how we live, what we do in our lifetime, what our heart, soul and intentions truly are. And also, because of God's Justice as well as God's Mercy, all those who die with their souls not being pure enough to stand before God, to be in Heaven right away, but who didn't reject God completely, their souls will have to be cleansed first in the purgatory, and it's fair and just. Because our earthly lives and intentions do affect the purity of our souls, it does matter how someone lived at this Earth, how he made use of the time given Him by God here, in his earthly life.
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@DutifulCommentsI think that in my country we have already over 130 000, or more, of professional soldiers, and we plan to have more, in this year at least 250 000 (not counting in foreign, NATO, soldiers stationing here). And fortunately we still don't really have muslim immigrants. We tried to oppose to current EU immigration policy, accepting such immigrants in an uncontrolled way in big numbers - but it's possible that it will change also in our country, that we won't be able to stop this anymore. And it's actually hard to imagine, taking into account current threats. Already we can see that Russian and Bellarusian regimes are misusing illegal immigrants, bringing them from all over the world, to the external borders of the EU, trying to destabilize in that way the situation at these borders (in more countries having external borders of the EU on their territories), and later, if they would manage, within the EU states also. And even few days ago I've read that the ministries and services of NATO countries are warning about Russian strategy of trying to use local groups from such environments in the EU countries to conduct various hostile operations and attacks, to bring chaos to the EU countries and their societies (sometimes even such radical local groups may not be exactly aware that they are in fact just working for Russian regime). For instance, in the last weeks we had a series of various strange bigger fires in different parts of the country (so services were even checking the possibility if they were not artificially started in such a way). So it just shows how many risks wrong immigration policy may bring to state's security and public order. It's hard to imagine that so many don't understand this.
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And having just such attitude towards life, that the main goal is to collect new experiences all the time, over and over again, she may also find out later that it didn't bring her really happiness. After all, such things as another trip, another restaurant visited, another party, another new car etc., they all become similar to each other, when the time passes. So in fact the most important are relations with people - but those true, close one, not just superficial.
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@anewmindsetforeveryone The words are not really so similar. I know, because I've learned both of the languages, English and German, and I like both. By games You can learn for sure some vocabulary, and so on. Agree that games may be sth good to start with. I started to learn English when I was 8 years old, and it was indeed much easier as a child. I see the difference in the way of learning - because learning German I started later, when I was not a kid anymore. But if someone wants to learn at the higher level, for proffesional purposes, You have to also learn all the grammar. And for sure, German grammar is more complicated than English. That's why I believe it's easier to start with English. But of course, if someone has time, it's best to learn more languages at the same time, and the best in the childhood.
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@HIMANSHU79879 According to data accessible in Internet, in Japan fertility rate is currently 1,374 births per woman (in South Korea 0,68). To compare, in my country it's currently 1,475. So in Japan, in my country also, it's also not enough, but for sure better than in SK. And generally to safeguard replacement of generations there should be more than two children per a couple (even two is currently not enough, because always not all will have children). But it's not possible that people will have nowadays so many children, in most of the cases. In some of the developing countries they have more (not in all of them, because for instance some of the South American also have low birth rate), but in these countries also the mortality is bigger (so in such countries birth rate alone is also not enough, if for instance many of people die there, even in young age).
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@HIMANSHU79879 No, of course I'm not from Japan. After all I've written above data for my country, different from those for Japan (accessible in Internet). And about immigration, it's completely different, and also complicated issue, with many serious problems, especially in Europe. To have a sound immigration policy, not posing risks to public order and state's security, is not an easy task at all. And birth rate of own nation is not the same as accepting sudden great numbers of immigrants (mostly illegal economic ones, not any refugees), especially if these immigrants later don't intend to adapt at all and don't accept (or sometimes even are hostile towards), values, culture and even legal order of the welcoming state, or come just to live of social benefits there. And also, when we're at potential risk of war (that came back after some decades), such hostile regimes, as Russian and Bellarusian, are using illegal immigrants, bringing many of them from all over the world at the external borders of the EU (in several countries), to bring chaos and destabilise situation, firstly at the borders, and then within the countries. It actually happens currently, all the time. So there are a lot of very serious problems about proper, sound, wise, safe immigration policy, at least in Europe. It's not easy. So a lot of people from Europe write, at different channels, that the immigration policy in their countries is completely wrong and brought only problems.
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Yeah, people 100 years ago were nothing but well and happy (it's of course irony). Especially in the times when there was great crisis (by the way, even called "Great Depression"), when so many, in various countries, were unemployed, couldn't find any job, had no sources of living, were hungry and even starving, were living in poverty and bad conditions, when plenty of people were even committing suicides because of that. And in the result it was also one of the factors that allowed such parties, as the Nazists in Germany, to win the elections, which, as we all know, led to the world war. So it was really so great then, people had no severe traumas, where not suicidal (irony again). And in some countries in that times were numerous acts of genocide committed, like for instance in the Soviet Union, especially when Stalin cane to power. So all that times were really such a "paradise".
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@yangqingluo6577 Actually, about Germany it is not really so nice as it seems. After the war, they maybe cared more about Israel, but not about the other countries and nations, despite enourmous harms they caused to them during the war and occupation. In fact, they did nothing to repair the harms and damages caused, so to restore justice. For instance, in Poland they killed about 6 milion of Polish citizens, about half of them were ethnically Polish. Polish were the second nationality, after the Jews, with the greatest number of victims murdered by Germans in Auschwitz (and also in so many other German mass death concentration camps). They ruined the whole country. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 they completely destroyed, as a punishment to the nation, the capital - Warsaw (more then 80% of Warsaw was completely destroyed, in ruins). They never paid any war reparations for these enormous harms. They even haven't punished at all many of the war criminals, responsible for horrible genocide acts. For instance, Heinz Reinefarth, who was responsible for murdering of 200 000 civilians during the Warsaw Uprising - especially during the Wola Massacre (one of the districts of Warsaw), where just in few days more then 50 000 people, including women, children, even infants, elders were murdered one by one in a most inhuman way. Such people as above mentioned Heinz Reinefarth never have been punished, he lived peacefully in Germany after the war for many years until his death, undisturbed, and was even a respected mayor of one of the German towns. Also many of the criminals being the Nazi crew of the concentration camps have not been punished at all. And also because of the war (started in September 1939 by Germans, in cooperation with Russians), after the war Poland and other countries of the region have to suffer for many decades under the communist regimes. Also during the war German invadors stole a lot of paintings and other cultural heritage items, but they have never given them back. So there are many harms in case of which justice have never been restored at all. They are just good in propaganda showing that they did so much and changed so much, but the reality is different.
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@russellward4624 Really, it's so easy to defame the others nowadays, and especially those who cannot defend their good name anymore. What is hard it's to go and sacrifice so much, in such extreme conditions, like Mother Teresa and other sisters did, in the poorest slums, among lepers, rejected by everyone. There would always be such attacks and attempts to destroy and hate towards those that do such God's work like her. So of course, You can believe in everything You want, it's Your free will and Your opinion. I myself read even one or twice such "revelations" and Internet sensations about her, but I'm totally convinced - among others after reading her writings, and also taking into account that during the beatification and canonization processes, that are formalized and are conducted under detailed rules, after thorough investigations concerning the life of each beatified or canonized person - that's it's obviously not true. And if there are really proven any defraudations of money caused by her, the congregation would have to pay it back, even after her death, which just didn't happen. So that's my opinion. Afterall, we all know that she was so extremely rich, she lived in luxury and she was spending so much money on her pleasures, sure (it's of course irony). And we all know she received the Nobel Prize for nothing, was canonization for nothing, is revered much by so many people just for nothing, sure. But I don't say that You cannot believe in such defamations, it's a free world.
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@ns-4438 Probably problem with low birth rate is more complicated. After all, all the developed countries, where the standard of living is higher, face such problem. But not also them, because I've recently read that even some South American countries, like e.g. Chile, have low birth rate. However in South Korea it's said to be the worst situation about this. And I've also recently watched an interesting video about the potential reasons of such a low birth rate in South Korea - at the above mentioned YouTube channel of a woman coming from my country who got married and lives in South Korea (it's: "Pyra w Korei"). She mentioned more reasons, economic and societal as well. It was interesting. But the solutions are not easy. Definitely, just giving people money, like social benefits, will not really cause a change. In my country some years ago such social benefits were introduced, but it didn't really helped much (although we still have higher birth rate than South Korea). For instance, important is also an issue of being able to have a flat (which is big enough), appropriate work-life balance, ability of women to combine work with having children (not being forced to leave their job and just stay at home, not being able to come back to work after having a child), costs of education of children and many other factors. So it's a complicated topic, not just one-dimensional.
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Well, apart from race there is also ethnicity. So saying just half Japanese and half white (which is so very broad, and includes so many completely different, also ethnically, nations) doesn't also seem right. And what about people, in whose families, in earlier generations, like grandparents (or even earlier), were people from different race, ethnicity, nation - how they should be called? I think there shouldn't be such divisions of people.
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@MROEnglishLessons But even when talking about ethnic Europeans, just to call all "white" is such an oversimplification and it's biased, there are so many nations, completely different, there too. I think that probably the least controversial and the easiest is the use of citizenship (because it's defined legally). And I also think that nation is not only about ethnicity, but about sharing the same culture, language, values and traditions (but also, the individual cases may be different, like with regard to nations that in the past had for instance a history of bigger emigration etc., they look at it also a bit different). Anyway, I think that the term Japanese - white would be also biased, from many reasons.
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@emigrant4life Yeah, indeed, Ukrainians or Bellarusians have reasons to complain, really (irony). If they do so, one should ask which regime they actually support (because among them are also many Putin followers). And it's just in that case also huge ingratitude. Because Polish people and Polish state spent already so much resources to help them (not being the wealthiest country themselves), not mentioning great military help. And also don't write things that You just don't understand, because relations between Poland and Ukraine are much more complex, also because of historical experiences - just read about the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia genocide on Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalists in the years 1943-1945 (more than 100 000 Polish civilians were murdered then, in the most inhuman, unimaginable, bestial way, one by one), especially about so-called Bloody Volhynian Sunday. And watch the movie "Volhynia". So it's just easy to repeat senseless, fake stereotypes.
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@emigrant4life Shouting "Polska dla Polaków" (Poland for Polish) - I've never met and don't know anyone behaving like this, among all ordinary Polish people. So You maybe say this about some kind of very narrow margin, like some specific environments for instance sometimes maybe, in some individual cases, of some radical football fans. And also there was one political party that was using such similar words (about Ukrainians, like "stop ukrainization of Poland"), but they were actually probably supported and financed by Russia (unfortunately Russian propaganda and trolls serving the Putin's regime are quite active currently), and they didn't get many votes in the elections at all (and as I already said about, relations with Ukrainians are complicated, from different reasons, also historical ones). So of course, You can always find, everywhere, some very marginal radical example. But this is not the real picture, at all.
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LOL, really. What You write just shows how ignorant You are about Poland's history. Poland occupied Ukrainian or Bellarus territories, really (LOL). Ask historians and just learn more (I actually know history quite well). It's historically completely untrue. And saying that Poland or Polish committed ever, on anyone, such genocide as Ukrainian UPA in Volhynia - it is such an enormous, extremely harmful historical lie, such a fake propaganda. And for sure we don't call anyone harmfully, just like that "Gypsies", because of their nationality, including people from Your region. I actually met some people for instance from Romania, liked them, made friends with them and I was even in Romania. So it's another stereotype. And also we have not bad relations with Moldova (even Moldovian President Maia Sandu was visiting our country more times, as being also at risk of Russian threats, like Ukraine, neighbouring with Transnistria).
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@chillout914 Well, unfortunately it's not so easy. Because in some Western or Scandinavian European countries immigrants, despite of living for more decades or even generations there, do not want to assimilate at all, don't even respect legal order and values of these countries - which we can see in TV news, like riots on the streets, burning of cars, violence, security threats and so on. And also many do not really contribute to a state's economy, but just live of social benefits, not working. So this is indeed a complex, difficult and sensitive topic.
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@INSTITUTE-2277 Indeed, it seems like it's a Russian (so hating Poland, as a part of his identity). Because many of Russians are currently trying to sell to the rest of the world (counting on that many people nowadays are much ignorant about history) their fake, alternative version of reality and history - like here, writing about Poland cooperating with Hitler and Germans (I've seen it at many other channels recently, real attack of auch Russian trolls). While in fact these were Stalin and Russians who started the II World War together with Hitler and Germans in September 1939, invading Poland in collaboration, from both sides (having signed earlier, in August 1939 the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact with a confidential protocol about the division of Europe between them). So these were Soviets who were the allies of Hitler and who were committing similar, horrible atrocities, mass genocide as Germans did - just to mention the Polish Operation of the NKVD in the years 1937-1938 (with over 111 000 of Polish civilians murdered by Russians) or the Katyn Massacre in 1940 (with over 20 000 of Polish murdered by Russians), and other.
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@TedEhioghae Of course, I know. For my whole life I attend Church, and my family also. But no one in my country (where 90% of people are Christians) thinks like this, that such things as makeup or hairstyle or clothes (unless someone would come half naked to a church, which of course would be inappropriate and disrispectful) has anything to do with faith. And what right someone has to judge the others, according to their appearance - it has nothing to do with Christianity. What really matters is what someone has in his heart, not how he looks like. It's not Christianity, to judge the others in such a way. Even Christ Himself was criticizing such attitude, calling Pharisees the whitened tombs, pretending with their empty gestures and clothes to be close to God, when in fact there was no love to God and people in their hearts. So it's definitely not the right attitude.
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@mj405 It's not only for herself, unless she is single. Well, maybe I don't understand such attitude, because in my country it's more about a man and a woman being partners, going through life together, often starting their common life with little and working on it together. Like many of people I know started in a flat in an old block of flats, and later they save money and many are able to buy some piece of land and built or buy a house. But they do this together. And in my country both a man and a woman usually work proffessionally. But our work culture is probably better, meaning not so very strict, than in Korea (e.g. in the whole EU we have a system of paid leaves, for both parents). Even after having a child a woman usually comes back to work. So people just support each other, build life together, start with little and step by step try to move forward together.
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@bigbattenberg Well, it's a complex problem, with not so easy solutions. And it's not about population in general, but about individual society. Although the adverse effects of unfavourable demographic structure will not be sudden, from day to day, but appropriate analysis show that it's already not easy to mitigate them and that some measures should be undertaken already in order to be able to cope with it in further decades. Because such demographic structure will have impact on various aspects of life of all, for instance on systems of retirement pensions, on public services and generally functioning of the state (financed after all from taxes paid by those professionally active). But I fully agree with You about attitude towards immigration. We all know how many problems, risks and changes it already has in many European countries. And recently new problems arise. Because also hostile regimes, like Russian and Bellarusian are misusing illegal immigrants, bringing them from all over the world to the external borders of the EU (in more countries), to destabilize situation at these borders and also within the EU itself (there are warnings about such new risks officially published, by authorities of more of the NATO countries currently, that such hostile regimes use such immigrant groups as a tool of hybrid war and of bringing chaos within the EU, to undertake various actions such as arsons of various objects etc.). By the way, yesterday a young 21 years old soldier died in Poland, being stabbed in his chest to death by illegal immigrants, wanting to cross the border by force, at the border between the EU and Bellarus. And there are also many other threats, fir instance connected with terrorism or spying. That's actually current reality, already happening. And also not mentioning how many problems are brought by immigrants coming from those countries and cultures that don't intent to adapt and integrate at all, that are hostile towards European culture, values and even legal order. So it's definitely difficult problem.
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@JJ-hb9in Well, my country is mostly Catholic, and many people still go to church (although of course it also changes a bit, especially among the youngest generations). And also our national identity is for us much important. And we have generally such attitude that of course, we should help people from other countries in crisis, but helping doesn't mean allowing, in a totally uncontrolled way, half of the world to the EU area. Help should be provided in those countries or at least regions from where they come from, so that they could live within their own nations and cultures, built their lives there, not just leave their countries deserted. And of course, "migrant" is a very broad, undefined term - because it contains not only real refugees, but also all the others, also those that come with hostile intentions and pose serious risks. So that's obvious that really wise, sound immigration policy, not posing threats to state security and public order, is essential, and not all this insane policy, like forced by some EU countries, called policy of "Herzlich willkommen" to all the migrants, no matter from where, no matter with what intentions and no matter how many of them, allowed with completely no control. It's indeed sad to see what's happening in some of the European countries, struggling with huge problems mostly with muslim migrants. And about migrants from Syria, only part of them may be Christians, because a lot of muslims also live there (I've read that there was only about 5% of Christians in Syria, now it's of course less). So it's (and used to be) only a minority religion there, most were muslims. And what You write about Christians not caring about anything, thinking that there will be end of the world, with the second coming of Christ, soon - it's probably about some crazy sects thinking like that. I don't know anyone like that. We just live our lives, as good as we can, that's all. And also it doesn't make sense to make any such apocalyptic assumptions. Definitely the Church, at least Catholic one, doesn't teach such attitude, to think that the world will end soon and to concentrate with fear on such predictions. Afterall, in the past, in history there were also so many horrible periods, like during the WW II, that people could think that's the end of the times, end of humanity. So there were more times, periods with wars, bloodshed, genocide etc., that seemed to be the end and Apocalypse coming soon. But it's not what we should concentrate on, not on some apocalyptic fears, but how to live our everyday lives well. So I think that You have a bit strange vision of Christianity, not like it really is, at least not as I know it from my Church and country.
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Crime rate has nothing to do with Christianity, for sure. And many Christian countries, also those being much Christian, have also low crime rate. And if the crime rate goes up, it's often connected with many other factors - for instance, as we can see now, with accepting huge waves of immigrants from completely different, often hostile, cultures, or some crises, poverty etc. So it's not like this.
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@cardenova Not only Jewish people, but also millions of people of Polish nationality were murdered during the II World War in a most inhuman way. Polish, after the Jews, were the second nationality with the biggest number of people killed in Auschwitz. Many were killed also in other German death concentration camps, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Ravensbrueck, and others. There was also a special German death concentration camp just for Polish children (Litzmannstadt Konzentrationslager fur Kinder). During the Warsaw Uprising in August - October 1944 about 200.000 civilians, mostly women, children, infants and old people, were murdered just in few days in one of the districts of Warsaw (the Wola Massacre). After the fall of Warsaw Uprising the capital was destroyed completely, with almost no stone left upon another, as a punishment for the uprising. So even now, more years after the war, it's not so easy just to forget what happened only few decades ago. Especially if members of one's family has been murdered in a bestial way. And also consequences of war destruction of the nation and the country still lasted for many, many years after the war. In both, economic sense as well as in sense of great demographic loss of so many people. So of course, the nations shouldn't hate each other anymore. But it's also not right just to forget about such sufferings of so many innocent people just few decades earlier. And it deserves proper understanding. Also in order to ensure that such horrible things will not happen again in future (by the way, the Russians during the war and later the communist controlled by them committed similar crimes, killing and torturing a lot of innocent people).
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@ii4826 If You have any doubts, not knowing history, about German mass genocide acts, please come and visit the Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum, the Museum of Warsaw Rising in Warsaw, the Museum of the Ulma Family in Markowa (Poland), and many others. See also a lot of authentic, original photos and films, listen to the testimonies of the thousands of victims (those who managed to survive, but suffered often till the end of their lives, for many years).
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As a Catholic, You really shouldn't think and pay much attention to such things as curses etc. Just believe in God's Mercy, which is greater than anything. Do You know the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy (and saint sister Faustina Kowalska and her diary about the Divine Mercy)? You shouldn't also think too much about the past, past decisions, past events - it's something You cannot change anymore. The only time that belongs to us is present. And what matters is not if we succeed in everything and don't make mistakes, but what our real intentions are, if they are good. If we wouldn't make any mistakes and were ideal, we wouldn't be humans, but some kind of cyborgs. And also about suicide - of course no one should commit such acts, because everyone's life is a gift, is worthy and precious and we should cherish it. However, even if someone committed suicide, nowadays in the Catholic Church we still can pray for such person's soul. Because we don't know what the mental state of such person really was, if it didn't affect one's ability to use his free will (and it also matters, when talking about sin, what were the intentions and if there was free will really, because mental disorders can much affect this, so in such cases it's not such person's fault). And also we don't know what were the last moments of such person - as saint Jean-Marie Vianney was saying: we don't know if someone in his last moments, with his last breath didn't manage to ask God for help and forgiveness. So definitely we shouldn't think that such person's soul cannot be saved and that it is already hopeless, because God's Mercy is greater. We shouldn't despair. And such mental disorders as depression are not rare in modern societies, many people suffer because of this much, so it's important to have proper understanding of such issues and for sure not to stigmatize anyone because of such suffering of him. Especially in cases when in people's life there's no real work-life balance, much stress and pressure, these are all risk factors, that make it easier to get sick. After all, our mind is part of our body and it can also get sick, and can need proper health care. We shouldn't blame ourselves for that, that's for sure.
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It so much oversimplified view of people's lives and problems. For instance, being married doesn't mean at all that someone will have children. And people who are not married often do have children (and they as well as their children shouldn't be discriminated). As well as a problem often is that many would like to have a partner and children, but from many various reasons, often such that are not depending on them (also medical reasons), they just can't. They also shouldn't be discriminated, it would only worsen the situation within the society, resulting even in the growth of suicide rates etc. So it's not so obvious and easy as it may seem. And often if there are various social benefits for people having children (even such as a certain amount of public money payed to parents on each child every month, like in some countries), the reality shows that it doesn't really change much, the birth rate doesn't really goes up (only maybe in the first years after introducing such social benefits, but later it goes down again). So it's not so easy, solution, within developed societies, are not so easy to find, most of the developed countries struggle with low birth rate and unfavourable demographic structure.
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Also the most widely acknowledged language of the academic community, at all of the global and most of the regional important conferences, of international scientific journals, of publications, of international scientific committees and organizations and so on - is English. So if someone wants to have current knowledge about word's development in many fields, like for instance medicine and many, many others, or to do anything relating to academic career, he should know English. And it's not new at all that people want to be able to communicate (not only while meeting face to face, but also by reading for instance scientific or other works, diplomatic correspondence etc.) across boundaries in one language - now it's English. In the past it was for instance Latin. Later, in Europe it was French, as most of the elites, like in XVII or XVIIIth century, were learning this. And before English became so widely spoken across the world, there was even a special, artificially created in the second half of the XIXth century, language - with a purpose to enable people from different nations to be able to communicate in just one language, instead of having to learn many of them - this artificially created auxiliary language was called Esperanto (You can read about it in English in Internet, also in Wikipedia). The creator of Esperanto was Ludwik Zamenhof. And I just cannot imagine that nowadays someone doesn't want to learn any foreign languages at all - it also broadens one's horizons. For me for instance it's a pleasure to able to read books in foreign languages. And I would feel myself disabled not being able to talk to people from other countries at all. It's also important when someone wants to see something outside just their own country (which great majority of people do).
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@johnyoo3300 What are You even talking about? Mixing Christianity with horrible, totalitarian regimes and ideologies, like communism based on marxist notions, responsible for death of millions, mass genocide and so many inhuman atrocities, bestial tortures, system of gulags and other concentration camps. Of course, Christians oppose to such horrible regimes and ideologies, resulting in genocide, enslavement, torture of millions. By the way, my country is in majority Catholic, since ages, but we were fighting with bolsheviks since the very beggining, since 1919. So we know very well the reality, better than anyone, and what such totalitarian regimes and ideologies bring with themselves.
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SabinaS.N.O.W. I do watch this channel since much longer time. And if I would like to watch videos about islam, I would choose different channels. It's not the first one, but another, again, about similar topic. I want to watch this channel like I used to, but not videos about islam. And as stated above, religion is a sensitive topic. If it's only about one religion again, it shows that the channel is different that it used to be. If it would turn into a channel for muslims, for sure I won't watch. And it's also discriminatory - there are many more religions, so there should be videos equally about them also, or no videos about any religions.
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@OrientalPearl For sure, I also agree that people shouldn't hate each other anymore. However, the relations between nations and states, being the consequences of earlier wars and genocide acts committed then, are often much more complicated. One thing is a feeling of hatred. And the other thing is restoring the justice. Restoring justice applies not only to harmful acts committed to the others within a society. Also to relations between nations and states at the international level. So between states, justice should be restored by such acts as appropriate war reparations, authentic acts of apologies, not glorifying of individuals who committed genocide and war crimes, but condemning them officially and punishing, proper teaching next generations about historical facts, and so on. Without such true acts of restoring justice, the deep wounds often stay within the harmed nation and its society even for more generations. I don't actually know how Japan really tried to restore justice after the II World War, I only know, from an European perspective, that it can be still problematic (like in Europe - in cases when the reparations have not been paid, when some of the war criminals, committing terrible war crimes, could still live peacefully, unpunished, after the war in their countries or even be respected mayors of towns, when there were some attempts of manipulations about the undoubtful facts, and so on). And also the spread of communism and establishment of communist regimes after the war can be seen as a consequence of the II World War, caused by certain countries, and people living under such regimes suffered greatly for many decades after the II WW (Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain for 50 years). Of course, I also understand that it's difficult to restore justice, including paying reparations, when it concerns relations with a state which is not democratic, but still under a communist regime. However, what I want to emphasize, is that such historical issues are very complicated and sensitive, and it's not necessarily about individual feeling of hatred. And what is worse, is that such sensitive problems between nations, if not really solved earlier, can often be used later by regimes to additionaly antagonise the people and to manipulate them easier. So such post-war relations between nations and states are often indeed a complicated issue. Anyway, I hope that nations, also in Asia (because various parts of the world and events are nowadays much more connected with each other then in the past), are able to keep peace, now and in the future.
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@林奥-d1j My comment was about all modern countries, not only South Korea, definitely not even only Asian ones. And the fact is that it's just the reality of many societies, in some more, in some less. It's very important, if a society cares about its members, to be aware that mental health care should be part of health policy. Because brain and its functioning, including human mind, is a part of body, and health is not only about physical aspects, but about mental health also. Many factors may influence mental health, such as constant severe stress, overwork, various traumas, depression, for instance after death of close person, various addictions (which is not only about physical aspect, but also psychological) etc. And often, if such disorders are not dealt with properly, it may lead even to suicides, in all generations, because it concerns not only middle aged, but even children or teenagers, and sometimes even old people. So it's just important to be aware of this, in every modern society. And people, not in so rare cases, complain for instance about no work-life balance, strict working culture, long hours of overwork, no possibility to go on a longer leave, or even at all on any leave etc. So it's not also good to just ignore such problems and to pretend they don't exist, because they do. And such issues should be addressed by appropriate health care policies, in particular in countries that have a problem of decreasing birth rate and aging society.
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@林奥-d1j LOL. Your statement that "whole world is Korean" is so exaggerated. Of course, in many countries there are fans for instance of kpop, but these are definitely not about all people, only some of them, usually those the youngest, and also not all of them. Just like there are many fans of many other music genre, other kinds of music, other bands. After all the world is very diverse. And music, as well as films, dramas, movies also.
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@dank2476 Of course, there is no one living who is without a sin, we are all sinners, no one is perfect. That's obvious. But still, the main feature of God is mercy. The Divine Mercy is greater than anything, and He is not some horrible judge who intends to condemn the sinners. He wants to save them, because every soul lost is also a hurtful wound to His Sacred Heart. And it's easy to say if someone was born in a Christian culture, family etc. For someone born outside Christian culture, it's not always so easy to convert. But still, all people are the children of God (He didn't die on cross only for Christians, but for all), and all have His voice in their hearts and souls, as His children - it depends on them if they want to hear it and go along the right path in their lives or not. For not Christians it's just harder. But it doesn't mean that they cannot be good people, living according to God's will, even if they are not Christians. It doesn't mean that they must be condemned by God, just for not converting to Christianity, apart completely from the way they lived, it's not like that. In my country many people pray at 3 p.m. (the Divine Mercy Hour when Jesus died on the Cross) everyday with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, with the words: "Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and the Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world.". So we pray for all people, not only Christians.
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@dank2476 Well, as Catholics, we don't believe in such determinism. Of course, we cannot redeem ourselves without God and His grace. And He is willing to give all the graces to us, because He loves us and wants to save us. But He gave also every human a free will. So every human may choose, in his heart and soul, to reject God, to reject all the love, good and light He is the source of, it's each one's own free will. And God gives us graces, to save us from bad, sinful live, but we must accept it - He doesn't force it on us, because it would be against our free will, given by Him. We must ask, in our hearts, for His forgiveness, for his help, for ability to accept his grace, for a change of heart. God doesn't force anything on us, we are not His slaves, but children, who have free will. And like the prodigal son (in the Gospel parable), we can choose to leave and go our own, wrong path - but if we are willing to come back, even after long time (sometimes even with our last breath on this world, if we truly want this, and not always it's possible to be in the church, because situations in human lives on this world are different), He will always accept us, as the loving and forgiving Father, full of mercy, not just reject and condemn.
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@dank2476 For me, with such way of thinking it would mean that God loves only some of the people, and He doesn't care about others, and they are born already condemned. It's horrible to think like that. And it is not true, because all are His children, He died on cross for everyone, not only for some chosen ones, He wants to save everyone, He loves all His children (but some, with their free and aware will, choose to reject Him, so they reject all good, love and light He is the source of, till the end - and only this can make them be condemned). We believe that every sinner (and we all are sinners, some are more, some less) has a chance till the end. But sometimes, if someone did horrible things all his life, he just can't change his heart anymore, he is not able to regret and to ask God for forgiveness, and he rejects God, after having nothing but bad heart for his whole life. So in fact, it's not God who condemns him, but a human chooses himself, with his free will, to totally reject God and His Mercy.
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@dank2476 No, it's not like that. It would make God some unjust, horrible creature, choosing some of the people discretionarily, for salvation and all the others for eternal suffering, no matter what they do. And it's definitely not like that. We don't believe in such horrible God, but loving one. Such vision is horrible. In fact, the God's Mercy and His Redemption must meet with a person's free will. And we also pray for the others, so that are able to let God to their hearts, so that are able to understand that they need Him and ask Him for help, that's all, it can be often enough to save them.
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@dank2476 We don't believe that anyone is condemned already when he is born, just the opposite. And God doesn't choose anyone to be condemned, just the opposite. We believe in God, who is loving and merciful, for everyone. Who come to save the world, not to condemn it. In such faith, saying that anyone, when born as an infant is already condemned to hell, based on such horribke determinism, it would mean that no matter how a person lives, no matter if a person believes or not, it means nothing, as being already condemned. We don't have such vision of God, for sure. It's terrifying, not giving hope and strenght to live well, despite our weaknesses as humans. We believe that there's always hope, for everyone, and God will help everyone, if only such person truly wants this and asks about it. He doesn't want any soul to be lost, He suffered so much for us, for everyone, to save us, not to condemn. But unlike Evangelical Churches, Protestants, we as Catholics believe also in purgatory (which is a balance between God's Mercy and His Justice, so two features of God, however His main feature is Mercy itself).
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@dank2476 Original sin means that our nature is not perfect, but prone to sin. But it doesn't definitely mean that it's enough for a human to be condemned by God for eternal hell, for instance innocent infant that dies. That's definitely not like that. Original sin means that we are not able not to have any sins in our lives, that's why we must ask God for help, regret and ask for forgiveness for our sins - no one can say that he is without a sin. But just being born with the original sin, meaning being prone to committing sins, doesn't mean at all that anyone is condemned, for sure. God is not a monster who would condemn infants and children and good people with pure hearts and souls to hell. And unlike other Churches, we also believe in Holy Sacraments, like confession and Eucharist (the Holy Communion), so being able to unite with forgiving God, even on this Earth, during our lives.
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Wow, what a bunch of rubbish. And how completely ignorant. Christianity and communism and LGBT - as a cause and result. You have even no idea what communism means. And also the more Christian, especially Catholic, society is, the more they are against LGBT being promoted, like in other countries. But the most hilarious thing (although there are more like this) is combining Christianity and communism together, while religion, in particular Christianity (but not only, because other religions also), is seen by communists as their greatest obstacle, enemy, that should be totally eradicated and destroyed. Just learn more about history and sorrounding reality.
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@mvl6827 One should understand and give the source of the citation - and whole this saying that "religion is opium for the people" is Karl Marx. His ideology, and communism based on it, led to horrible things, deaths and suffering of millions. So one should give the real source of this citation and the context. And I come from the country that was fighting with the Bolsheviks and Red Army almost since the beginning, we know better that the others what such ideologies bring with themselves (many people in the Western European or even American countries just don't understand this, not going through such historical experiences themselves). We were at the communist side of the Iron Curtain for 50 years, so we know how it really was - what such ideologies bring. Many totally innocent people, men, women, even teenagers, were brutally tortured, murdered, especially during the Stalinist times, but later also. And the Church was much persecuted, the priests, giving hope to people, were also often brutally tortured, kidnapped, murdered by the communists, even till the end of communism, till 1989. So I just think that one should give full context of the above mentioned citation.
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@mvl6827 No, it's not the same. Because this is not just about a piece of music, but about very specific phrases, used in a very specific context - even by You, to oppose to every religion, not taking into account anything. And I just don't agree with these specific phrases. For my nation religion (we're mostly Catholics, since centuries) always was a source of hope, that hepled us to survive, to go through the most horrible moments in history. And such ideologies, saying like above that "religion is opium for masses", were in fact really this "opium", bringing real hell to this world - and it's both, about nazism and communism, because both of these horrible ideologies were trying to destroy the Church and religion, bringing only unimaginable horrors. So we just have different perspective. And I don't say that You don't have the right to Your own opinion (by the way, like most of people I of course also like all these old songs, of the Beatles and Lennon). But I just don't agree. We in my country experienced very well how the world without God looks like.
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@homie3461 About "borrowing" something from Prussia, this was probably true in certain aspects, especially military, but regarding the second half of the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century (so in the times of Prussia, and later Nazi Germany). And we know how it all ended. So being influenced by Prussia (in terms of militarization of the country, expansion of the army, authoritarianism and strong nationalism, that were so characteristic for Prussia, and later Nazi Germany) was not a good idea - especially in the aspect of humanity - as history has shown and led to tragic times for millions of people. So choosing this path, it was probably one of the reasons they did during the II World War the same things to people as Germans did in that time. But after the II WW, so in the modern times, their "structure" was influenced by other countries, not by Germany that fortunately lost the war. So it doesn't seem really true to say that "modern structure" of Japan, in modern times, was borrowed from Prussia (as said above, only some aspects of "structure", before and during the II WW). And after all, Japan is an old, unique civilisation, with its own unique traditions and culture, so saying that their "modern structure" was based on Prussia example doesn't seem really right, or at least a big simplification out of context.
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@homie3461 I do not speculate and I know history quite well. And of course Prussian state is not the same as Hitler and Nazis, which was much later (and, as all know, was completely sick, insane ideology). But when You write about Prussia and modernization in the past taking into account this state as an example, You shouldn't mix various periods in history. An authoritarian, old state cannot be called an example for modern, nowadays states and their structure. And of course in Japan there were, during the II WW, no Nazi party (such as in Germany), and this is not what I meant. But when mentioning such states as Prussia, it is about militarization, authoritarianism, nationalism and so on. But this was before the II WW. Not after. And the real modern times were after the war. And for sure, I do not say that for instance colonialism of some states (Poland didn't have any colonies) and colonial leadership was anything good. But also definitely no one can say that there was anything good in the II WW - taking into account terrible genocide acts committed in that times, and death and tragedy of so many people.
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@homie3461 I do not think that such matters as constitution of a state or education are mundane. In fact, there are very important. And I've read about development of constitutionalism in the history, also about first Japanese written constitution, which was considered probably one of the first in Asia. By the way, Polish first written constitution (of 3 May 1791) was first in Europe and second in the world. But I think that what was considered modern in some time in the past and along with that time authoritarian, absolutist systems and different values, in different era (like in the times of first transition from feudal systems in XIXth century), cannot really be considered modern later, especially after the II WW. And as I said, I do not think of course that colonialism was good and justified at all. But also I definitely cannot agree that it was anything good in the starting of II WW. And I can only be sorry if someone has such opinions. Such person should visit at least once so many German Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau (or many other similar places, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and so on, where hundreds of thousands of people, of different nationalities, were killed in the most inhumane ways). And also, regarding Japan, the atomic bombs this was also terrible death of many people, because of war. And there were also some terrible experiments on people. So I just cannot agree that anything can be called worth of such sufferings and such hell on earth. But I should add that I do not have anything against Germans nowadays, I can speak German and I like reading books in German. But I just believe that it is important to remember what really happened in the past, and what led to this, so it will not come back, at least on such terrible scale in the future, when another wars can happen. Because it can be back.
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