When people think about Japan and the Japanese people, this is what they have in mind:
Source: Deviant Art
Or:
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Or probably:
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People who have traveled have this in mind when they think about Japan:
Source: Cure Byte
The Cove will take these stereotypes out of your mind. Instead, you will see Japanese as:
(the fishy things in the boat are dolphins, the boat is floating on a blood-tainted beach, and the people on the boat are Japanese dolphin hunters)
Dolphin hunting is an very important part of Japanese culture, and the Japanese government subsidizes it to annoy the West.
It could be worst. They could be working on getting atomic bombs like Iran, building a mighty navy in the Pacific like China, or opposing Security Council resolutions against nasty Arab dictators like Brazil, India, South Africa, Russia, China (again) or Germany (Germany is not really Western; if they were, they wouldn't be sitting while the European project collapses).
The Cove is a great documentary. And the website is here.
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