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Originally Posted by MuRaSaKiiNkI;832671"China Says Japanese Textbooks Distort History"[/URL
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History is written by the conquerors, my professors say, and I am beginning to believe that every country is guilty of distorting history. Who really wants to remember the gory details? What country would admit to their atrocities completely? And personally, I threw up in my World History class when we learned about the Rape of Nanking, same as the Holocaust, and the two World Wars--It's horrible! Yes, it's important to learn from our history, but being forced to learn every gory fact...it's torture.
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Yup. History is written by the winner, and China is the winner of WW2. Also, if you truely believe China's democracy and it's freedom of speech is anything comparable to today's Japanese's, I think you should think twice. In any case, I don't think you should base your opinion on Iris Chang's book as it contains many notions even Chinese scholars in People's Republic of China don't support.