Bryan Callen
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But I never forgot when it comes back to Chinese stuff.
I remember when, so if you look what the Chinese did to Manchuria in the 30s, Iris Chang wrote a book about it.
I think it was called The Rape of Nam King.
I'm sorry, the Japanese to the Chinese.
And Iris Chang ended up killing herself.
And I think her mother or someone said it was because of the, just the trauma of doing the research of what they did.
It was the most ferocious killing besides, I think, Rwanda in history, but a concentrated number.
And I said to my Taekwondo teacher, I was in college, and he was Korean.
And I said, why haven't the Chinese asked for some kind of reparation?
Why haven't they sort of like asked for formal apologies and stuff?
And he said, because in Asian culture, Chinese, Korean culture, Japanese culture, the idea is this.
The Chinese said, oh, well, that happened to us because we allowed it to happen.
We didn't have our guard up.
We weren't strong and it'll never happen again because you're never doing that to us again.
And it was really fucking wild.
I was like, damn, man, that's a crazy thing.
inherent to that culture, which is radical responsibility.
Like you're responsible.