Posted on Jan 2, 2017
Do you believe that your exposure to other people and other places by virtue of your service has made you more tolerant?
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Absolutely. It also showed me that some of the problems we have, like racism, are not just American problems, they're human ones. The Japanese are some of the most racist people on earth...although they're VERY polite about it.
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LTC David Brown
Koreans are also racist. That being said I liked Korea and the Korean people. A very adaptive and creative people. A heart history (movable type printing press 200 years before Guetenberg) and the only Asian people with a phonetic alphabet.
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PO3 Justin Taylor
I spent my time in Japan and sis not experience such racism. If anything, I had the opposite experience!!!!!
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tolerant yes accepting no, there are way too many people in these united states that need to travel abroad and see how people live, maybe they will gain an appreciation of what we really have as compared to them, my time schools, food, safety the freedom do be, those young people in Iraq I met had none and ive got the pictures they haunt me ervery day
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MCPO Roger Collins
Couldn't agree more, my travels over the past six or so decades have shown me, despite how we feel today, it is the best place to live on the planet.
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MCPO Roger Collins
SN Greg Wright - Is or was. Our welcome has been rebuffed twice by the Philipine government. Lots of those places I loved, but didn't want to live there. My more recent visits to Germany and Japan convinced, we have it all right here.
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I've been to a fair amount of places and I'd say it has made me more tolerant. Some places make me happy to live in America and some we could learn a few things from too. Not everything, but a few things.
Generally I've found people are people. We won the lottery being born in a good place. That doesn't make us better or more deserving, just lucky.
Generally I've found people are people. We won the lottery being born in a good place. That doesn't make us better or more deserving, just lucky.
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CDR Jon Corrigan
I don't happen to believe 'luck' had anything to do with it. We have had, in our rather short history, many leaders who risked and lost everything to get us to where we are.
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SPC Kevin Ford
CDR Jon Corrigan - I was speaking to the luck of being born in a wealthy country. Many leaders may have done things to make it that way and we benefitted from that, but we had nothing personally to do with the fact that we were born into a first world country and benefitted greatly from that. We just were and some poor SoB born on the same day as I did in the plains of Mongolia probably had very little possibility to change that reality for the rest of his (likely short) life regardless of what he tried to do.
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