They still got us …
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010I was supposed to check out this interesting free seo software but I wasn’t in the ‘trying new stuff’ mood so I watched videos on youtube. Videos relating to Japanese studies, people and some histories. Then I came to this particular video regarding Japanese invasion in Singapore and Malaya (Malaysia as she was known back then.)
The Japanese occupied us for 3 years. And within that three years, they tried to assimilate the Japanese culture into the local society – make them work hard, teach them to speak Japanese. If you ask any 70 over year old person, he or she would tell how horrible it was to live under the Japanese occupation (My maternal grandparents included). Some of these old timers would even express how much they hated the Japanese.
Interestingly enough, 60 over years later, although the Japanese didn’t physically occupy us, but they still ‘got us’ in the end. Japanese language is being taught everywhere around the world, and people love their culture, people love their animes, their music, their dramas,their technology…. Heck, some people even want to be Japanese. 
I wonder how people would feel towards the Japanese and Japanese culture after 60 years from now…
