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I'm not. I'm just stating the sad fact that acknowledgement of past crimes is mostly done in western democracies. I've never seen, for example, a similar speech

• chadlavi 6y ago
  Those nations also haven't lost a war in which the rest of the world told them, "hey, stop, you're being really evil and you're wrong." There's probably nothing special about Western Europeans/Germany in this regard except for the fact that they were forced to come to terms with their crimes.
  • luckylion 6y ago
    > Those nations also haven't lost a war in which the rest of the world told them, "hey, stop, you're being really evil and you're wrong." The Ottoman Empire did, they were allied with Germany in WW1, lost and Turkey was all that remained of the empire. It hasn't change the tune, though. Japan did as well, and they're also ahead of the world average, but I believe it's still quite a way off from the Western approach. They have become more pacifist than Western countries though. > There's probably nothing special about Western Europeans/Germany in this regard except for the fact that they were forced to come to terms with their crimes. I don't think that's accurate. The US, France or the UK did not lose a war either, yet they very much did look at their past atrocities. Not enough, I'm sure some will argue, but still a lot more than the world average.