Dirt? Slave? Puppet? Friend? Why?

Day 1,648, 01:09 • Published in Japan China • by Chise E Tamai

So.

Has anybody wondered why Taiwan goes like "Hey we want to be your friend" on one hand, but also goes like "no we don't trust you" at the other hand?

If you do wonder, raise your hand. I will give it a count.

Anyhow, I will start by making a quotation from ahava3233, because I believe that the statement does represent what a significant amount of eJapanese citizens think of the current situation:

"If Taiwan wants to be our true ally, they need to treat us as such, not like dirt, suspecting us at every turn of working against them...."

Yes. I believe that people would all hold some degree of curiosity as to why things are the way they are now. Some of you had decided that it's just Taiwanese being evil; however, my experience with life had told me that things never are as easy as they look. People are not flat - that is, simply putting an attribute on a target, and symbolize them as such, would usually cause you to miss other more important stuff. People, organization, or country are never really just pure evil; complicated reasons almost always follow behind.

No; everything has a reason.

It took me a great deal of time to do the investigation. I found an answer; it's my way of explaining things. It might be wrong, but it would probably make some sense in explaining the chaos we have now. Whether or not the answer I found is truly true, is a subject of debate, but I believe that it's an answer that would make things make more sense.

So.

Well, basically, Taiwan treated us badly, because we used to treat them badly.

No, it has nothing to do with US. Not me, not you; only the country. Most of us who are active now are irrelevant, and thus clueless, to those past incidents. It's like as if your father was an asshole, and so people don't trust you by default, even through you have done nothing that's worth that kind of distrust yourself.

Unfortunately, the past incidents did make some bad images of eJapan, so we suffer from history. The past had created enmity, and we who live now suffer from the consequence, even though we are not the ones who did it.

I would not go into the details; but for anyone who is interested, do a bit of research on your own on the previous presidents of eJapan. Some of them were nowhere near Taiwan-friendly - especially those ones who were in power immediately before Sophia Forrester came to term (the month that the war started). They might have good reasons of their own to treat Taiwan like asshole, but I don't know; what I do know is, they made Taiwan wanting to treat us like asshole.

The blacklist that Taiwan provided us with from the election last time, had names of some rather ancient and non-active politicians, which was the evidence of how people from the past had created grudges, and now we suffer from them. It's not the decision, nor the wish of us, the current eJapan citizens, to have such hatred planted on us by default, but it's still something that we have to face.

It's a bias. It's a bias that exist with a reason. It's not directly our fault, but it's there.

Let's deal with it together, people.

This should also explain why Taiwan's attitude seem a bit odd - "we want to be a friend" on one hand, but distrust on the other hand. I suspect that those who trust us less are older in eRep age, whereas the newer players, those ones who are less relevant to the history, are the more friendly ones; well, all is possible.