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Originally Posted by niftydrifty  what are you talking about? |
he says Americans (but not only Americans, everybody does it IMO) talk much more about Nanking or Auschwitz than Dresden.
I've read in my psychology book that when you're talking about nice things about you, you are likely to explain them with internal factors ("I'm intelligent", "I've worked a lot" and not "I was lucky") but when you're talking about bad things that happen to you, you explain them with external factors ("bad luck" and not "I've not worked enough")
And when you're talking to bad things about somebody else, you explain them with internal factors ("He's dumb") and not external factors ("He was not lucky")
So, about Nanking: "they
are barbaric"
And about Dresden: "we
had to do it"