Molson Hart

I've been to Manchuria and Japan. They seem quite different to me, but I don't speak Japanese and my Chinese sucks so what do I know.

If Manchuria is a "country" (as it's not de jure recognized as one) like America is, sure, all the Japanese born in Manchuria in the past 100 years (and I know there were many, I have met some) are Manchurian.

Because you are a laowai, you don’t understand us. The differences you see are superficial. The Japanese archipelago are islands right? They must have come from somewhere else. Now look at a map. Plus the Japanese language is very closely related to the Altaic Manchu

Linguistically, as is the Korean language. Korea was poor as fuck, but now it has grown into something close to Japan. Manchuria was richer than Japan itself before 1945. The differences you see were caused by communism and Chinese occupation. Otherwise we should haven been

Still richer and better than Japan.

More resources, but is that anything to be proud of? Saudi Arabia is a rich country by that metric. I think of things in a typical laowai way. I don't even view myself as white. I think of myself as me. It's individualistic vs. collectivist thinking.

I like Dongbei. In a way I love it. I miss it a lot. It's a got a warmth to it that Japan does not have. But as far as I can tell, it's quite different from Japan. In some ways Dongbei feels more like parts of America than Japan.

I personally admit that Japan and Manchuria are sufficiently different. Japan lacks the fusion of multi-civilizations. As a Manchurian, I feel easily the chemistry among Mongol-Korean-Han-Russian cultures even within on city, say Harbin. But in Tokyo, I got easily bored by the