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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Readers of a certain age will recall the cadences of the satirist Tom Lehrer's "National Brotherhood Week," and perhaps also his indelible punch line: "And everybody hates the Jews" (though fortunately that is not an East Asian problem). You may notice that my adaptation of the ditty leaves out the United States, which made war in East Asia from 1941 to 1975, and during those wars hated "the Japs," "Red China," Korean commies, and the Viet Cong. All such hatreds were nicely reciprocated by East Asians, and, by the 1980s, the Americans had even contrived to be hated by the South Koreans.
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