Essays on Dower

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the western media reported the Sino Japanese war and how China and Japan were portrayed. Several news reports portray the Chinese as being aggressive and violent individuals thus presenting the perception of the Chinese as being less victimized in the war. In contrast, the western media portrays the Japanese as being a rational and courteous group of people while their negative roles and atrocities in both world war II and Sino Japanese war have been overlooked. This paper will further identify the underlying reasons for ideological inclinations of wartime reporting. ...

Question 2: World War II- A Race War

Dower’s assertion was calculative and well informed. It is a true that World War II was pertinently motivated by racial pride and arrogance posed by the main participants particularly the America and Japan. Dower’s work provides a clear description of the effect of ethnicity and racial pride on the war. The scholar explores various situations with the intention of explaining motivate behind the decisions and practices assumed by each side. He presents sentiments that the two countries were equally wrong because they were all motivated by stereotypic assumption of viewing the other as polarized. Dower, feels that ...

The war between Japan and USA was not any ordinary war like any other which was mainly based on power and leadership. According to Dower, this conflict was fueled to the heights of the unforgettable Atomic bombing by the US on Japan by o9ther factors other than power and show of military might. The reason said to be behind this is racial discrimination. The difference in race is between the Americans who believe to be whites and Japanese who are believed to be apes and primitive creatures. This racial difference which appeared to exist even before the First World ...

Iran War was not worth it because it increased Iran’s Influence due to the removal of Saddam Hussein as a regional “balancer.”

The United States has for a long time used the tactic of shifting alliances between Iraq and Iran so as to balance power in the Persian Gulf. This can be traced back to 1953 when the United States overthrew the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq and substituted him with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.1 This move by the United States to overthrow Mossadeq was meant to contain the influence of the Soviet Union in the Persian Gulf and also ...