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Topic: MAGICAL NEZUMI AND TDLFAN REPORT HERE NOW!!

#	Author	Message
11	The Goddess Mara Sat 9/1/2007 8:36a	What kind of film was it? Flat? 3D? In theater effects of any kind? I consider myself lucky to have seen the extremely odd Meet the World.
12	Mr X Sat 9/1/2007 9:10a	Me too! It was an ideal place to cool off and take a nap on busy summer days. :D
13	Bob Paris Sat 9/1/2007 9:16a	I saw it once. I really liked that they had the English headphones. I would have appreciated something like that for 20K, Stormrider and JttCotE at TDS.
14	WorldDisney Sat 9/1/2007 4:16p	LOL, this thread was funny!! Mr. X summoned two people who actually has never seen it and he never bothered to ask someone who lives with him and probably been going to the parks since she was a teenager. Priceless ;D Yeah, count me in to one of those people who saw Meet the World too....and let's hope we all never have to meet it again ;).
15	Mr X Sat 9/1/2007 7:13p	lol.
16	The Goddess Mara Sat 9/1/2007 7:31p	From a technical point of view, Meet the World was a fascinating failure. From a political point of view, it was a historical whitewash. All Japanese agression simply didn't exist. That would've gone over real well had it been built at Epcot as planned. Fortunately they figured that out--after they built the building, but before they put the show in.
17	Mr X Sat 9/1/2007 7:36p	Well, it's still a magic kingdom attraction, after all. Wouldn't really expect to hear about the rape of nanking or nothin. ;) (although I did find that comment along the lines of "then our wize Japanese leaders decided peace was preferable, and put an end to the war" a touch ridiculous)
18	TDR_Fan Sat 9/1/2007 7:50p	I find rather odd and insulting that they do not teach their children what really happened. In the school textbooks, anything that's less than positive has been erased from history (taking over China, Pearl Harbor, etc). Instead, they act as if nothing ever happened.
19	WorldDisney Sun 9/2/2007 12:50a	^^Yeah, it is odd TDR_Fan, I lived in Japan and Korea and BELIEVE me the countries are opposite extremes about this lol. In Japan, kids aren't taught all that much, its barely mentioned and when it is, there is a huuuuge chunk of it missing and even adults don't really know all that much (although they certainly know more and learning more) whereas in Korea children are taught all about the past evils of Japan and what they did from the early age of 6. They learn all about the colonization of Korea, the comfort women issue, Japan's wartime aggression against the other countries, Pearl Harbor, aligning with the Nazis, all of it all by the ripe age of 8. Every Korean kid is fed a full plate of hate for that country before they are old enough to know better while the average Japanese kid at the same age doesn't realize Korea even exist or anything their country did to most of Asia around the same age. One should a little less at such a young age and one should A LOT more. It is strange.
20	Mr X Sun 9/2/2007 1:15a	I agree, TDR_Fan, but Disney would be the last place I'd expect to get an education on that stuff. ;) Anyway, the way they treat the schooling is much like the way the government treats the whole shameful past...very much a "that was then, this is now" attitude.

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