I suspect we have merely scratched the surface. If we delved deeper, who knows what aspects of history could potentially be explained by comparative penis size issues?
I mean, look at the Cold War - all that stuff about … missiles. If the “missile gap” isn’t the working out of anxieties about penis size, what is?
Perhaps we have been handed the “key”*, if you like, to deciphering history.
*also about penises.
I assume that the Vietnamese also fall into the category of Orientals with penis envy.
And how big could your penis be when you are being stripped naked at gun point in a POW camp (or is my penis only one that responds to life threatening situations by hiding behind my Adam’s apple?).
During those years, Dad made seven beach heads, carried shrapnel in his leg, had recurring malaria. He saw things he couldnt even talk about, In his 70s, he and Mom were walking downtown, when he stopped, started shaking, pale, Mom had to prop him up, He saw a Japanese man whe looked like a soldier he had interacted with during the war. The cruelty was beyond comprehension. His patrol had gotten behind emeny lines, the natives hid them until they could return to their unit. After all those years, Dad was still affected by an image, the worse part is, he lived with horrible memories did he died, and he isnt the only one. Iam telling you this, so you can understand that the cruelty was real. And I weep for My Dad, his unit, and the native people who had to live thru this, the war never ended in their minds. Yes, atrocities happened. I could say more, but to write them is hard.
Since you quoted my earlier post, I wanted to update it even though this is not a direct response to your post.
I had a discussion with my (now legally married) husband about the Japanese sense that what you do away from home somehow doesn’t count, and he was quite open about how this is a real reflection of their culture. He couldn’t say where it comes from, my guess would be that it comes from their centuries of isolation. My opinion also is that Japanese daily life is controlled by concepts such as duty and self-effacement as “proper” but without much in the way of moral underpinnings. The word that Japanese parents say to their little children to tell them not to do something is “dame” (pronounced “dah-MAY”) which means “it isn’t done.” Not that it’s morally wrong, but that society disapproves or that it is useless. So when they are away from their society, they have nothing to fall back on to tell them right from wrong when dealing with individuals from other countries and cultures. Most people are not deeply enough involved with Buddhist teachings to have absorbed a moral basis of action from them.
Most of this is my opinion based on observation. As I said before, most Japanese I have met have been very nice people to other Japanese and to other favored people (like me, an American) but were capable of saying shocking things about, say, Koreans or Chinese or black people.
