A nation should not be arrogant, but neither should it. Although the Japanese have their merits, they also have their ugliness. Although China people have many shortcomings, we should also see the inherent advantages of the Chinese nation. We should learn from the advantages of other nationalities, but we should not belittle ourselves, belittle ourselves and dwarf ourselves, which will make people feel inferior and lose self-confidence. Western democracies are keen to build up their sense of pride and honor. They describe their nation as the best nation in the world in textbooks and media opinion, so as to enhance their national self-confidence and sense of racial superiority. In this regard, we should learn from western democratic countries.
It is a fact that Japanese society is more developed than China and Japanese people are richer than China people. However, we should realize that this is not because the Japanese are excellent, but because the Japanese are too lucky and China's national fortune is too unfortunate. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan extorted 200 million taels of silver from China for national education and infrastructure construction, which laid a human and material foundation for Japan's modernization. China, which is poor and weak, has made it worse, and the national luck has gone from bad to worse. The brutal Japanese aggression against China in A.D. 1930 brought great disaster to China.
After World War II, Japan escaped punishment, while China, as the victorious country, got nothing. What kind of victorious country is China? It is a victorious country with no compensation and no apology, a victorious country with only sacrifice and no winner's rights, a victorious country that is ready to reconcile with Japan at any time for the civil war, and a victorious country that will not punish the enemy and will only kill each other between the two sides. What kind of defeated country is Japan? It declared "final war" instead of surrender, and Emperor Hirohito, a war criminal, remained indifferent, and a large number of war criminals took to post-war politics. Japan forgave reparations to China, concentrated on economic development, and embarked on the road to prosperity.
In the golden age of 1960s and 1970s, Japan's economy developed at a high speed, but the Japanese people were busy killing each other in the name of class struggle, and the gap with China was widening. After the reform and opening up, China focused on economic construction, catching up, and the national strength gap with Japan gradually narrowed. But because of too much debt, there is still a gap. This gap should not be used as an argument that China people are worse than the Japanese.
The people of China are an excellent nation, and the people of China attach importance to education. I often see my parents running around, worrying about their children's studies, even at the expense of blood; The people of China are industrious and intelligent, and dare to break through the world. Even in the most desolate Africa, you can see the footprints of China businessmen and China laborers. China people are very hardworking. In 1960s+0920s, Indian writer Tagore saw a group of China laborers carrying heavy goods on the dock in Singapore. He said with emotion that this hardworking nation will definitely rise in the future!
The people of China have gone through a bumpy road and suffered various disasters and setbacks. Looking back on China's history of nearly a hundred years, people were constantly tossed about by revolutionary war, warlord melee, foreign invasion, civil war, Great Leap Forward, Great Famine and Cultural Revolution. However, in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, they have maintained political and social stability, concentrated on economic development, improved people's living standards, and narrowed the gap with advanced countries in the world.
At present, China is in a critical period when domestic troubles and foreign invasion are at stake, and the risk of international competition is related to the national movement. The national rejuvenation is accelerating, but the "last few laps" are also the most difficult. In this critical period, the people of China should establish national self-confidence and believe that the Chinese nation will surely achieve great rejuvenation and stand among the world's outstanding nations.