As a Chinese-American, I often encounter casual racism against the Japanese in my day to day life. This distaste extends to my Korean and even Taiwanese friends. Yet, while studying in Europe, I find Germans are widely admired, though thought somewhat robot-like. I find this disparity interesting. I know generally the Japanese never "apologized" as it were, but I'd like a more detailed breakdown if possible.

I know they say hindsight is 20/20, but it seems like they just went "well surely they won't do that again" for arbitrary reasons. If not, was there a specific reason/reasons that they ignored that possibility?

I mean, the human is the most intelligent 'animal' probably but it's the only one to survive from all the species of the homo genus. Were the other ones just stupid?

Why is it that Iran has not had a large Zoroastrian minority (5-10% or more of the total population) until this day the way that Mideastern countries such as Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and certainly Lebanon have had large Christian minorities to this day? Surely, Christians made up every bit as much of the pre-Islamic Middle Eastern population as Zoroastrians did in pre-Islamic Iran, and Christians and Zoroastrians have been equally looked down upon by many Muslims. My guess is because Christianity has had other centres (e.g. Europe) while the only Zoroastrian centre was in Iran?

I was interested to see whether these existed, but I couldn't find any on Google news or Google timeline. I just want to see what op eds in favor of really abhorrent stuff looked like, especially if it was in like the NYT or something.

As a Lutheran, many pastors and family members have told me that Martin Luther had the New Testament memorized and that it is what helped him translate the Bible into German. I asked my Western Civilizations professor this question, and she couldn't give me a definite answer. Is there any evidence to back this claim? Thank you in advance for any answers.

I've been following The Great War on YouTube and this pops up now and then, and I'm genuinely curious if this was a real thing or an overblown fear of certain German generals, disregarding other Russian inadequacies in armament and industry.

This is probably an easy one to answer, but I was just curious, the Wikipedia articles weren't exactly insightful on how they might differ. I was reading some stuff on the Fatimid Caliphate and Ayyubid Sultanate when I realized I never even questioned why there were two different names for Islamic political entities. Any information here would be nice, thanks in advance.