Japanese mindset
@luisga814 (6913)
Quezon City, Philippines
July 31, 2022 2:44am CST
I'm not a Japanese. I'm a purely blooded Filipino. While responding here in myLot, I'm also browsing Facebook wall posts and found out the love of a brother during the Second World War.
In Japan, during the war, this boy carried his dead brother on his back to bury him. A soldier noticed him and asked him to throw the dead child so that he wouldn't get tired. He replied:
He's not heavy, he's my brother!
The soldier understood and burst into tears.
Since then, this image has become a symbol of unity in Japan.
Let this be our motto:
"He's not heavy. He's my brother... He's my brother."
If he falls, pick him up.
Even if you are tired, help him,
And if his support is weak,
And if he makes a mistake, forgive him
And if the world forsakes him, carry him on your back, for he is not heavy
he is your brother...
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@Greencindere (669)
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31 Jul 22
We studied this picture in school. The idea was to teach us to take care of our family and that blood is thicker than water (a popular saying in Serbia).
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@Greencindere Oh really? That's shared in school? What subject?
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@Greencindere (669)
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31 Jul 22
@luisga814 history. Yes we have this picture in our 8th grade textbook when we learn about WW2
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@Greencindere Wow. That's cool to know. You're from a different country but you've studied a picture of a Japanese.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
31 Jul 22
This is so sad. I wonder if that is where the song comes from.
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
Yes. This is so sad. What I live is the attitude of the older brother.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
31 Jul 22
@luisga814 Is that the real picture?
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@misunderstood_zombie Yes. This is a real picture but this is not mine. I just captured in one of the Facebook posts of one of my friends.
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@LindaOHio (156202)
• United States
31 Jul 22
Those words also found their way into a song, "He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother".
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@LindaOHio I hope that all brothers will feel that.
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@akanetuk I agree with that. They're doing their best to get their fallen comrades as strong as they should be. If they left a fallen soldier, they blaming themselves.
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