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    A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



    To this:



    A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?


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    Quote Originally Posted by justansweritplz View Post
    A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?
    I'm sure more than half of Filipinos based in the Philippines would love to live at LA/San Fo if given the chance...

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    Quote Originally Posted by justansweritplz View Post
    A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



    To this:



    A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

    parang za relationship lng yan. move-on na lng

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    Hmmm the area destroyed was from Sta Cruz to Sta Ana... which isn't really "big" as to the size of Metro Manila now. Binondo, San Miguel and Sampaloc was spared. Many old Pre-war structure still remain in Manila.

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    Two things:

    1. It's not 1899 and we're not at war with the US, and
    2. You do know that Japan was the occupying force in Manila during WW2, right? The US was (and still is) our ally during that time. Manila was destroyed as a result of Filipino-American joint forces weeding out Japanese soldiers still hiding in the city. Japan has since then, provided war reparations. Whether it's enough or not, is probably subject to another debate

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    Don't blame the Americans, blame the Japanese.

    During the opening of the war, the Americans decided to make Manila an "open city" so as to spare Manila of destruction and make Bataan do all the fighting. On the other hand, in the final months of the war, the Japanese decided to make Manila the battleground instead of just leaving it open.

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    Ilang beses ka na bang na-deny sa US visa application mo at galit ka kay uncle Sam?

    No seriously, even if assuming we have the capability to wage war with the US (like as if we have 10,000 nuclear warheads stashed in camp aguinaldo), why destroy an ally's city? Would the effort be put to better use by improving what we have instead?

    Buti sana kung Beijing pa yan ok lang, we do have an issue with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by justansweritplz View Post
    A lot of Filipinos on YouTube blame the US for why Manila turned from this:



    To this:



    A lot of Filipinos are still angry that their beautiful city was reduced to rubble and never rebuilt. If so, why don't Filipinos take revenge and destroy LA or San Francisco to make themselves feel better?

    The japs stubbornly made a last stand in intramuros and outlying areas in manila which led to the destruction of manila.

    The bushido code calls for embracing death rather than surrender because its shameful.

    The Americans funded the rebuilding not just of Europe but also the philippines and japan after the end of world war2

    Your premise about the destruction of manila is utterly misguided. It exemplify your poor knowledge of history

    After world war2 america became a super power and an industrial behemoth. Japanese empire knelt to Americas industrial might then (70 years ago), do you honestly believe a weak nation such as the philippines can muster enough weapons to do the same (destroy an American city)?

    You must be hallucinating dude

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    The TS does believe that china will be good for the philippines. Shows where he is coming from, no?


    All about CHINA "land of the red dragon"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monseratto View Post
    Hmmm the area destroyed was from Sta Cruz to Sta Ana... which isn't really "big"
    Isn't really big?







    Look at what they did to your beautiful bridge:





    That not big enough for you?

    And if your excuse is "well, they are just buildings", think about the 100,000 of your countrymen who died because of them. If they were not in your country, Japan would have spared you. Think about that for a moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ice15 View Post
    I'm sure more than half of Filipinos based in the Philippines would love to live at LA/San Fo if given the chance...
    They wouldn't if they knew how horrible the place was.

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