Well WWII was a long time ago as said before times change, but the whole world is still pretty stuffty to eachother. I guess comparing it just to china is kind of one minded. All the countries have loons just some more than others. :P
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don't hardly change. That's what WWII demonstrated. The same stuff is going down in Africa and the Middle East. The same stuff is happening in India. The same stuff happened in America not too long ago, and America is a young nation compared to many of the rest. If China had 5000+ years to get their stuff together, and we expect America to top their progress in less than a twentieth of the time, then we must be pretty crazy to think that. We were, we are, Germany was, Japan was, along with countless other examples.
It all starts in the mind. Once we believe we are above others in morality, it is that morality that is corrupted first. It is at the moment that we decide that our sense of morality is even the slightest better than others' that we give in to corruption.