[I/OOC] Incidental Bits

[Black Aeronaut]

You're going to force me to read something - anything - by Mercedes Lackey, aren't you? Mark him as a tentative.

*Mutley Snicker*

And Kuroha isn't as nasty as I implied in that snippet; she's just Japanese in a world where Japan still has some of its old prejudices.

Oh yeah, kinda figured that.  Now I just wished that I knew where that one article was - where a Japanese sociologist or historian or something sees an old American training film for the military that is supposed to teach American servicemen the basic gist of the Japanese psyche during WWII....

....And, to his abject disappointment, he proclaims that they as a people have not changed.  At all.

"Look, I know it's bad.  Because it is, right?  But that's the thing.  People like us?  We actually care enough to point this out to you, because we want you to be better people.  As Charlie Chaplin once said in a film made on the eve of that horrible war, we want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery."

"Who was Charlie Chaplin?"

*Grins*  "Kuroha, my dear?  You are in for a treat."

Oh, and relevant: