I think Nobunagun took place in Taiwan? The first episode did at least but I didn't watch past it.
Wise choice. Nobunagun looked horrible and i bowed out @ episode 2.
The Peru example wasn't meant to link back to Japan in any way except as an abstract example of how we automatically devalue suffering of "remote" people, as part of the Just World Fallacy. I was actually thinking of how Americans react to these big earthquake stories in non-Anglo countries differently than if it was to white Europeans. And there is a definite racist undercurrent. If ONE American died in that earthquake along with the 30000 Peruvians, we'd be all "oh no, John died!", even though we don't actually know who the fuck this "John" is, or why we should value his life more than the 30000 Juans, but this is what we see people doing. People tend to group the dead by race, which is a way of compartmentalizing and dealing with the scale of the tragedy.
Americans ALSO relate to Latin America and other people that they have oppressed in a similar manner to Japanese racism against their previous colonies, so looking at the "general" case is relevant since colonialism and racism are definitely NOT just a Japanese phenomena. America is reknowned for it's respectful language towards Mexicans for example
, who are actually amongst the people they conquered a big chunk of the USA from.
The Just World Fallacy works on two levels - the first level devalues people who had bad things happen to them - but (and this is critical)
only if they did nothing to cause it. It kicks in for "unfair" punishments. People subconsciously devalue the recipients of unfair outcomes, but if you do something silly and cause your own circumstances, there's no devaluation of you
as a person. This way we maintain our sense that the world is a predictable, orderly place - i.e. It "bad things only happen to people who deserve it, so they won't happen to me". the sense that we can self-control of outcomes as opposed to feeling every is random catastrophes over which we have no control. The latter may be true, but it's not a healthy worldview.
The second level of the Just World Fallacy is seen where the subject believes they've are the cause of the suffering, or they've benefited from the suffering. Rather than feel responsible, people lower their estimation of the worth of the target. This is the part that's relevant to Japan and it's interaction with post-colonial areas where Japan committed atrocities. We see it wherever there's a colonial situation, and the natives are propagandized as sub-humans, it's the same deal.