My Chinese wife’s irrational hatred for Japan is concerning me
I am an EU citizen married to a Chinese woman. This morning, while nursing a hangover from New Year’s celebrations, I saw news about the earthquake in Japan and multiple tsunami warnings being issued.
to take care of an injury or illness 调治，调养（伤病）
Several weeks after the match, he was still nursing a shoulder injury.
比赛过去几个星期了，他仍在疗养肩伤。
You’d better go to bed and nurse that cold.
你最好上床睡觉，把感冒治好。
figurative
She was nursing her hurt pride.
她的自尊受挫，正在慢慢恢复。
I showed my wife some on-the-ground videos from the affected areas. Her response was “Very good.”
I was taken aback by her callous reaction. I pointed out that if I had responded the same way to news of the recent deadly earthquake in Gansu, China, she would rightly be upset. I asked her to consider how it’s not nice to wish harm on others that way.
She replied that it’s “not the same thing” because “Japanese people killed many Chinese people in the past, so they deserve this.”
I tried explaining that my grandfather’s brother was kidnapped and died in a Nazi concentration camp, even though we aren’t Jewish. While this history is very personal to me, I don’t resent modern-day Germans for what their ancestors did generations ago.
I don’t understand where this irrational hatred for Japan comes from with my wife. I suspect years of biased education and social media reinforcement in China play a big role. But her inability to see innocent Japanese earthquake victims as fellow human beings is very concerning to me.
used to describe sb who is the same as you in some way, or in the same situation 同类的；同事的；同伴的；同情况的
fellow members/citizens/workers
同一组织的成员；同胞；同事
my fellow passengers on the train
和我同火车的旅伴
I’m not sure how to get through to her on this. Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation with a Chinese spouse? Any advice would be much appreciated.
This woman would be simply an unimportant freak, were it not for Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, J.D Vance, Marco Rubio and other US Republicans who spout similar nonsense with one hand on the Bible1.
If it were not for Mike Johnson, this woman would be simply an unimportant person.
对现在虚拟
informal disapproving to speak a lot about sth; to repeat sth in a boring or annoying way 滔滔不绝地说；喋喋不休地说
~ (off/on) (about sth)
He’s always spouting off about being a vegetarian.
他老把自己吃素挂在嘴边。
What are you spouting on about now?
你这会儿又在唠叨什么呢？
~ sth
He could spout poetry for hours.
他聊起诗来一聊就是半天。
She could do nothing but spout insults.
她只会没完没了地骂人。
You are a homosexual man twisted by drugs and REsurgery into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.
perfection:
the state of being perfect
again
reapply
reincarnation
转世化身
reassuring
使人放心的
Footnotes
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