The distinctly ‘fascistic’ elements of Japanese racism – defined as ‘fighting spirit’ – was imported into the West as being both ‘transcendent’ and ‘spiritual’ – and presented as an example to be followed by those Westerners interested in the practice of Japanese martial arts. Overnight a number of serving or ex-serving US Servicemen sprang-up in the US wearing the white ‘gi’ and black belts around their middle.
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Taiwan: Love Has No Limits
Gay Rights in the Taiwan area of China. 酷影音 | 真愛是沒有限制的 牧師獨子愛上佛教徒男友的求婚愛情故事
The Racist Rhetoric of the Pro-Tibetan Movement
This essentially ‘Cold War’ rhetoric presents the Tibetan people through a highly racialised filter, very much in the mould of WWII era Japanese militarism and fascism (which depicted the Japanese people as being both physically and spiritually superior to all other ethnic groups). It is also something akin to Hitlerism, and the notion of a ‘pure race’ and of a race of ‘supermen’.
Transcendental Illness
However, illness for many (even within privileged societies) is an everyday reality, particularly if there is no cure, or the case that medicines can only ‘control’ the situation for a time. Even in China where Daoism is an ancient medicalised spirituality, people who are ill keep themselves as ‘free’ of angst as possible, and seek to detach a ‘clear’ mind from an ill body as much as possible.
Japanese Buddhist Monk Apologises to a Grateful Chinese People
If Japan apologised to the Chinese people and strove to make amends for their war-crimes, the world would be a better place.
When Britain Ethnically Cleansed Its Chinese Populations
Polish people may well be from another country, but their European ethnicity runs the UK – albeit in its distinct British form. I condemn any and all crimes against Polish people, but do not believe that they are the victims of post-Brexit ‘racism’ in the manner that Black, Asian and Chinese people in the UK are (a subject the British media is quiet about). To the British media it seems that hate-filled prejudice is only reportable if white people are suffering it.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 