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6/18/2025, 1:16:36 PM
>>17773167
>after WWII, when every nations was getting their own countries.
Except that didn't apply to the majority of nations, only to a minority of nations. Most countries in the world today still aren't nations-states, but a collection of many different regional nations under one state, and many of the kind of nation-states we do have achieved it relatively recently through harsh assimilation policies (i.e. France, Italy, Han-China, etc.). The ones that got it were mostly the result of communist collapses, and European decolonization where the Europeans mostly gave up far off non-European places that they never even wanted to have as integral parts of their own countries. It's not at all comparable to contiguous internal territory of a non-communist country officially treated as an equal integrated part of the country. Korea wasn't a separated colony, it was annexed into Japan itself. Koreans were not colonial subjects, they were Japanese nationals and citizens with the same rights etc. Koreans could rise to high positions in the Japanese government and military. Due to a successful (despite not being flawless) combination of propaganda, modernization and economic uplifting, carrot and harsh stick, Korean resistance was already gone and basically non-existent a couple years into it, with both the political class and the public as whole having been co-opted by Japan and accepting the status-quo. Just like the Scots and Welsh, just like the Bretons, Normandians, Alsatians, Occitanians, etc., just like the Venetians, Sicilians, etc. among many others. And this is in fact precisely why some Koreans afterwards are so much more defensive and insecure over Japanese stuff.
>after WWII, when every nations was getting their own countries.
Except that didn't apply to the majority of nations, only to a minority of nations. Most countries in the world today still aren't nations-states, but a collection of many different regional nations under one state, and many of the kind of nation-states we do have achieved it relatively recently through harsh assimilation policies (i.e. France, Italy, Han-China, etc.). The ones that got it were mostly the result of communist collapses, and European decolonization where the Europeans mostly gave up far off non-European places that they never even wanted to have as integral parts of their own countries. It's not at all comparable to contiguous internal territory of a non-communist country officially treated as an equal integrated part of the country. Korea wasn't a separated colony, it was annexed into Japan itself. Koreans were not colonial subjects, they were Japanese nationals and citizens with the same rights etc. Koreans could rise to high positions in the Japanese government and military. Due to a successful (despite not being flawless) combination of propaganda, modernization and economic uplifting, carrot and harsh stick, Korean resistance was already gone and basically non-existent a couple years into it, with both the political class and the public as whole having been co-opted by Japan and accepting the status-quo. Just like the Scots and Welsh, just like the Bretons, Normandians, Alsatians, Occitanians, etc., just like the Venetians, Sicilians, etc. among many others. And this is in fact precisely why some Koreans afterwards are so much more defensive and insecure over Japanese stuff.
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