Four-day Spring Festival holiday, the concept of water, my wife and I first trip abroad mm with a tour in the Pacific Ocean Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan and Tinian. I feel a prominent are: the beautiful scenery and the brutal history, as no as performed here, as conflict. the so-called cruel history, for these islands and the Caronia indigenous Chamorro people, not their own history, but others history, specifically, the U.S. military and the brutal Japanese forces fighting in World War II history of late. Each nation would not be without its own history, but in today's Saipan and Tinian, historical narrative of the space, has been 60 years ago, the United States and Japan is full of guns, like the Second World War, the various war sites, indicating the graves of the Japanese signs, monuments full of the same two islands. As spectators of the original history Residents of the history, nature being marginalized, appears unimportant, as if they do not have their own history mm as they do not even have countries.
Indeed, Saipan mm the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, I can not fluently called an nation has a country, it would not all need a national (own) country. at least from the island in 1565 after the Spaniards landed, this is the one and a Western colonial powers, has been Germany, Japan's long-term colonization and the United States long-term custody, until 1986, the Northern Mariana Islands, by referendum, naturalized United States. So now, the people of these islands are U.S. citizens, these small-government organizations over the island, flying American flag, these islands and the sea coast of the U.S. warships parked, even though most of the world know that the United States, far from their thousands of miles away in the American continent. The United States needs this strategic stronghold in the Pacific, and the local people just carefree and peaceful life. We Saipan island's highest point, three U.S. military supply ship that stopped in Saipan motionless offshore. It is said that Saipan see this every morning as long as three U.S. warships on the well stop there, it will be the heart an air that everything is fine. if the day suddenly can not see the U.S. warships, and that is an accident: One reason is to reinforce the war off the coast; the other reason is that a typhoon the need to shelter the other side of the island. Therefore, it is almost three U.S. warships and weather Saipan's assurance, relations with the island people and stability, can not move easily.
I think that in the original Saipan This long-term residents were colonized, was hosted in the historical context, the concept of nation-state, the needs of the nation-state had already disappeared mm perhaps, never existed. In fact, the concept of nation-state is itself a product of modern history, is a national awakening, the product of the history of national struggle, not always there. especially for a small nation, they might make a suitable choice of their own.
World War II history, as a and aboriginal folk dances of different, in fact, the nation-state with a strong legacy of sound, is a strong national will in the beautiful scenery of the strongly expressed: including the U.S. bombing of Japan in Tinian atomic bomb load to the site, the U.S. military more than just bomb the ruins of the Japanese air force headquarters; Long live Cliff in Saipan Japan's Cliff Japanese soldiers, women and children. This brought in from mainland Japan, with the meteorite carved monuments and the next several monuments, I felt a little suspect beautify the war of aggression. tour guide told us that it has been called Monument the body of the gum. the two country's national will and emotional history, which is still antagonistic to express this monument. And these are not a beautiful part of the landscape.
Chinese saying sayings, called unpleasant. Saipan is more open than others, so that their territory as a space for freedom of expression others do?
in my opinion, this is a difficult Japanese scenery as tourist destination, but a sad place. because striking findings are all too high-handed in this decades ago, the national expansion of the remains of the tragic downfall. for the Chinese people, these are not very easy. I do not feel schadenfreude, as general not just as the ancients The rise and fall of the flu. I'm just in the history of the tragic death of those who deeply feel the worth of life. destroy the country by people, how can we know when the man of the destroyer! I am also thinking: an overly tyrannical thoughts, beliefs, ideology should be responsible for those victims, should be responsible for the lives of all victims should be responsible to history. human at any time, should be ignored for this person (fellow with others) the life of too much , beliefs and ideologies remain vigilant.
[Shaohua Note: Yesterday I wrote that I have deleted the word. apologize to the friends! February 4]
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