07-26-2021, 07:45 AM
** 25-Jul-2021 World View: Identity groups
Your observation that your relatives in Taiwan don't seem worried
about an attack is very interesting.
This corresponds to the discussion in my article about the fact that
the Japanese don't seem to fear an attack, and in fact have a "bring
it on" attitude. So we can conclude that, for the time being, the
attitudes of the Taiwanese people are in sync with that attitudes of
the Japanese people. This makes sense, since China is planning to
attack both of them.
During a generational Crisis era, populations generally form identity
groups with other populations of the same religion, race, ethnicity,
skin color, etc. So we would expect the Chinese people of Taiwan to
form an identity group with the Chinese people of China.
It's the Chinese Communist government that has screwed this up. What
the people of Taiwan have in common with the people of Japan is that
their governments are both part of the international liberal
democratic Western community of nations. In fact, "the West" can be
thought of as an identity group, joined together by common democracies
and "Western values."
So, for example, Israel is part of this identity group, but Saudi
Arabia is not. Ukraine is part of this identity group, but Belarus is
not.
However, the fact that neither the people of Taiwan nor the people of
Japan fear an attack by China takes this concept a step further, and
suggests that the two countries may be actively preparing to defend
themselves from China.
Guest Wrote:> My relatives in Taiwan don't seem worried about an attack...
> I have moved gold and silver bullion to Singapore. It won't help
> me if i'm dead, but if that hapens, I won't have any more
> worries. Besides, it's not enough to "start over". Just a little
> something to help me survive for awhile until I can figure out
> what to do next. Other than that, I don't know what to do.
> I once spoke with a refugee who said that he saw a family of
> refugees trapped by hillside with a river below it. The soldiers
> were approaching and they would do unspeakable things to the
> husband's wife and two daughters. The whole family was crying and
> screaming. The father speoke to them. The man couldn't hear what
> was said, he was faraway, but he watched as they all held hands
> and jumped off the hill into the river. They didn't try to
> swim. Sometimes there is no solution.
> I would like to hear from Navigator too.
> Thank you, John.
> --Guest in Asia.
Your observation that your relatives in Taiwan don't seem worried
about an attack is very interesting.
This corresponds to the discussion in my article about the fact that
the Japanese don't seem to fear an attack, and in fact have a "bring
it on" attitude. So we can conclude that, for the time being, the
attitudes of the Taiwanese people are in sync with that attitudes of
the Japanese people. This makes sense, since China is planning to
attack both of them.
During a generational Crisis era, populations generally form identity
groups with other populations of the same religion, race, ethnicity,
skin color, etc. So we would expect the Chinese people of Taiwan to
form an identity group with the Chinese people of China.
It's the Chinese Communist government that has screwed this up. What
the people of Taiwan have in common with the people of Japan is that
their governments are both part of the international liberal
democratic Western community of nations. In fact, "the West" can be
thought of as an identity group, joined together by common democracies
and "Western values."
So, for example, Israel is part of this identity group, but Saudi
Arabia is not. Ukraine is part of this identity group, but Belarus is
not.
However, the fact that neither the people of Taiwan nor the people of
Japan fear an attack by China takes this concept a step further, and
suggests that the two countries may be actively preparing to defend
themselves from China.
