Sunday, March 3, 2013

The way Peter describes the way that the Chinese are fascinated and look up to Hitler repulses me, honestly. I feel like it is ironic how they also love the Jews; since Hitler tried wiping out all the Jews. Being Jewish and reading this section it was very confusing and I didn't enjoy reading it. It makes no sense to me how the Chinese can not only put Hitler at the top of the list of who they admire but that they put the Jews right below him at second! I do not think they fully comprehend the vulgarity of what Hitler did not only to the Jews but also to the homosexuals, handicapped, and gypsies. I believe that Peter Hessler is also intrigued as I am; I feel that the Chinese shocks everyone who knows what truly happened and what Hitler was doing and was capable of. Now I do understand we need to take into consideration that the Chinese are used to communism and dictatorship, but at the same time I cannot comprehend the fact that they still see him as an amazing ruler when he caused such destruction and genocide. The Chinese culture is used to a dictatorship but I do not think they fully see the effects it had on Europe and Jews along with the other minorities I had mentioned before. 

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