Chinese and Japanese interactions, is there a feeling of inferiority? I would like your opinion & observatio?

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Chinese and Japanese interactions, is there a feeling of inferiority? I would like your opinion & observati?
I have both Japanese and Chinese colleageus in my work place. I have often noted that the chinese have very strong negetive feelings for the Japaense when they talk among themselves, however, they seem to treat my Japanese colleagues with great deference in social interactions. I would appear to me, and maybe I am wrong, that the Chinese view the Japs as somewhat superior at the same time they dislike them. The Japanese on the other hand do not very openly mention their attitude towards the Chinese, but, I did get hints from their conversation with such words as "The crime rate in Japan has incresed because of foreigners (Chinese)" or "OH! He is Chinese" with a shrug.
It is obvious that there is more beneath the surface. My question is,
1. If you are not chinese or Japanese, have you also observed similar things
2. What is going on here, and what is the cause?
3. If you

Sorry the lsat question was cutt of here it is:
If you are Chinese or Japanese your view point and corrections to my assumptions if you consider then wrong?

Sorry about using the word "Japs" I did not mean to be impolite, was trying to save space.

Answer 1

first of all, I'm Chinese. what I'm going to say maybe biased. I'll try to be objective though.

yes, it's true that Chinese, as a race, is hostile toward Japanese. It all should trace back to WWII. There was the Nanjing Massacre. In December 1937, Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese army launched a massacre for six weeks. According to the records of several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre, around three hundred thousand people, mostly civilians and POWs, were brutally slaughtered in various inhumane fashions.

Even the Japanese Foreign Minister, Hirota Koki, reported after an inspection trip in January of 1938 that the "Japanese Army behaved . . . in [a] fashion reminiscent [of] Attila [and] his Huns. [Not] less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians slaughtered, many cases [in] cold blood."

Over twenty thousand cases of rape were reported. Many of the victims were gang raped and then killed. The figure did not include those captives who were sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations").

The Japanese government has never made any formal or official apology to the Chinese people for their crimes committed during the war. Japanese may still think that they are the real victims of the war and they still dream that they could have conquered the world if without the U.S. atomic bombing.

Instead, a number of Japanese politicians and writers denied not just the Massacre but any of their wrong doings in the Second World War. They claimed that they had "liberated" Asian peoples from Western colonialism. The Nanjing Massacre is one of their so-called "liberations".

Worst still, Japanese government had fooled the nation for almost 60 years without telling them the real truth about the massacre. They always want to "rewrite" history, attempt to review the content of history curriculum for their new generation, either by not mentioning the massacre or giving untrue information about the incident. In China and some other Chinese communities over the world, there have been protests on this issue from time to time.

so yes, it is natural that Chinese people don't like Japanese much. Some Chinese hate Japs. Some treat Japs with contempt. For me, being a Chinese in Hong Kong, brought up under British colonial culture, I don't HATE Japanese. I actually appreciate their culture.

But to answer your question, it is, to a certain extend, true that Chinese on the whole have a feeling of inferiority. But this is due to another series of incidents happened in modern Chinese history. Chinese people always feel inferior that we are lag behind since the time western powers came to China. (remember, Chinese was still thinking that we were one of the strongest countries in the world, like in the old days of Ghenghis Khan) And there was a series of political / cultural revolution, which were literally power struggle within the government, that lead China into its dark age of cultural and economic development.

all the events happened to Chinese in the past century dealt a blow to Chinese morale.

Answer 2

I am now living in New Zealand. I have lived in both Japan and Australia.
In Japan the Japanese dont rag on China too much, but it is in the news. in Hokkaido (Japan) if there is ever a crime, fingers are usually pointed at the Russians or the Chinese. Truth is, its usually them that are the guilty of the petty crimes. (usually due to "cultural misunderstandings").
in Australia, it is so multicultural no one has those issues.
In New Zealand majority of my Chinese friends (young adults) love Japanese things, and wish they were Japanese.
Very few Japanese are learning Chinese in Japan, mainly English and Korean (due to popular Korean Drama, Yonsama etc).

That is just what I have observed in my 22 years of life.

Answer 3

1.I am not oriental, but I have noticed these things.
2. The countries are very hostile towards eachother. This has been going on for year. In 1938, Japan encroached, pillaged, and raped the entire city of Nanking China. This is called "The Rape of Nanking" or "The Nanking Massacre". It is estimated that up to 100,000 chinese were raped. This included old woman, old men, young women, men, and children as young as 6 years old. Various objects would be thrusted into them such as bamboo roads and beer bottles that were shot into. The japanese soldiers also brutally abused the chinese by burning them alive, burying them in a hole and pouring hot boiling water over their heads, being eaten alive by german shepards. The lists of brutalities that occured were horrendous. These incidents were reported, but the Japanese government denies the claims.
The reason why they did it? Japan felt that they were racially superior to the Chinese. Japan felt a strong sense of nationalism.
Japan, being a small archepeligo, was running out of room for it's evergrowing population of people. The increase was due to the industrial revolution that occured in Japan. Japan needed more room for it's people, so it encroached on Chinese land.
The japanese government to this day does not teach about this event in school, nor does any one of that generation know about what happened.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

1. Yes, of course.
2. It goes back to the early days -- Japan occupied China, Japan used Chinese as slaves for sex and labor, Japan used China's resourses... on and on like that. Japan has limited land-mass and a lot of national wealth. China has a lot of land and a lot of laborers but, has historically not as much national wealth. The Chinese were forced to learn Japanese when their country was occupied by the Japanese, too. They didn't groove on that very much and they still harbor some residual hostility about it.
3. If I... what? What's the 3rd question? (I think that, as you are mystified about this behavior at your office, it is equally mystifying that you have used the term "Japs").

Answer 5

It goes back to WWII. The Japanese military did unspeakable things to the Chinese people. It was a long time ago, but the negative feelins are still there...

Answer 6

It may be something to do with the size, the Chinese being shorter than the Japanese may have feelings of inferiority. Japanese being a martial race are also more advanced in martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Taekwondo and Samurai. Please see some of the older movies of Akira Kurosawa for more elaboration: & samurai etc.