11-17-2018, 07:16 AM
(11-16-2018, 04:24 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: We have plenty of excellent movies from the early 1940s that portray Germans and Japanese in an unflattering light. Do most Americans except that the unflattering light about America's wartime enemies is relevant today? Of course not.
There was a LOT of bad things about traditional German and Japanese culture. The reason it is not relevant today is that the Americans forced them to change after 1945.
Cultures can also change under the pressure of internal forces. Hopefully this will happen to the Muslim world. I suppose anybody who takes humanistic and democratic values seriously would find it hard to respect Mohammed. Do modern Germans respect the Teutonic Knights?