‘I Don’t Like Japan, But We Need To Know The Disparity’

One of the most forwarded, shared, and commented Sina Weibo microblog posts yesterday…

@趣味儿经济学: I don’t like Japan, but we need to know the disparity. Japan’s territory is 1/25 of China’s, but the GDP/productivity of one Japanese person is equivalent to that of 33 of our countrymen. Japan’s illiteracy rate is zero, while the percentage of those who receive elementary and middle school education is 100%, and 48% of their total population have college educations. Japan has 12 Nobel Prize winners, while China’s education system is comparable to 1920s Japan. Forests cover 12% of China, 67% of Japan, and yet China exports massive amounts of wood to Japan.

Comments on Sina Weibo:

我佛那个去：

The government leadership needs to seriously reflect on this!

大都会太阳系赵娟：

Japan indeed has many areas where it has done very well, we should really reflect upon ourselves, but of course, on the precondition of not forgetting our national humiliation!

6002the米米：

History cannot be forgotten, but Japan’s level of development cannot be denied.

Jeffrey_Leo：

Some of China’s fenqing have been brainwashed by the government, and they say they dislike Japan? If you have the ability, surpass them.

Mr矮锋：

But China’s niubi rate is 100%.

可爱的PUPPY-SAM：

This kind of comparison has been going on for a hundred years now, yet China remains the same.

宝球：

I also really don’t like little Japan, but the disparity/difference still ought to be acknowledged.

sherry海狸：

How come there aren’t radiation statistics?

lnbj：

Because the Communist Party “kills the chicken for the egg” [short-sighted, only cares for certain things] to maintain their corrupt regime.

pyyboo：

The circumstances for each country are different. A country’s development cannot ignore population factors. Moreover, China is constantly groping its way forward, coming from a state of feudal arrogance against invading foreign powers and frailty of its democratic politicization, so time will tell everything. Everything Japan has now are the “spoils” of the crimes it committed during its era of militarism. Okinawa is a very good example. This is an old debt!

Big-hand：

The disparity is in the people’s values!

lily640923：

In awe of ordinary Japanese people’s level of civility.

浮云流水_桌游：

Having a lot of people is not an excuse, what we need is time.

糖三淡定种树：

Although I definitely do not believe these statistics, I definitely believe Japanese people are higher in terms of character.

我只是个剑客：

Don’t blindly worship the foreign, one must see both the good and the bad.

魏氏军刀：

At least 50 years of disparity, this can’t be changed!

小赵同学V：

Using numbers to make a point is the most persuasive.

卢某是我：

China’s population is 10x that of Japan’s, our overall economy jumped to the world’s second largest long ago, so may I ask where did this absurd conclusion that one Japanese person’s GDP is equivalent to 33 of our countrymen come from?

岁时散记：

Why do you have to first say “I don’t like Japan”? Why not just talk about the disparity?

屌丝的逆转：

We have the leadership of the Party, the guidance of advanced ideology, what do they have?

淡如水9716：

But our country also has areas stronger than Japan, for example corrupt officials.

丁南明新浪个人认证：

Because we are the most advanced socialist country, whereas Japan is a degenerate, declining capitalist country.

邵雪云golf：

The last sentence deserves consideration. We keep using up natural resources, while others are protecting natural resources~

白粥走米：

Just facts that must be accepted. We’ve disliked Japan since we were small, but after growing up and seeing things objectively, we discover that a lot of things are not so black and white like in textbooks. This is how the world is.

瞳_趣：

Never fear, we have the all-powerful Party Central Committee…

爱涪江Nancy：

Only with comparisons can there be a sense of urgency.

果断伤不起：

If some people don’t start rumors and promote anti-nationalism for a day, they get uncomfortable…