Some of the best Italian food is made by Ethiopians and some of the best sushi, I think, is made by Koreans. Colonization and conquest, while never pretty, often have complex features and exchanges that can't be reduced simply or easily.
My wife is Chinese, but she is the biggest Anglophile on the planet. The fact that the British empire fought the opium wars and colonized parts of China never really bothers her. Should it? Or does a new era mean that we can look at other things and move beyond the kinds of resentments that stem from a past we never participated in ourselves?
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Date: 2009-01-14 08:25 pm (UTC)My wife is Chinese, but she is the biggest Anglophile on the planet. The fact that the British empire fought the opium wars and colonized parts of China never really bothers her. Should it? Or does a new era mean that we can look at other things and move beyond the kinds of resentments that stem from a past we never participated in ourselves?