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Nice parade SKS's
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fat tony said:
I was going to say something about race relations in Asia, but we are in polite company. :eek:
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Never date the daughter of a Taiwanese intelligence officer, it won't end well.

Oh, wait, you were talking about a different kind of relations. Forget I said anything.
 
Those guys live in a different universe. I went to university with a guy from Taiwan who had never heard of Hitler. Their view of the world is very foreign and very interesting.
 
MarkCNP said:
Those guys live in a different universe. I went to university with a guy from Taiwan who had never heard of Hitler. Their view of the world is very foreign and very interesting.
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The mainland Asian cultures are very much centred around the group and the society. Individualism, and the sense of the individual, is greatly suppressed to a degree that Western raised cultures have difficulty understanding.

Imagine a grade school (kids from pre-school age through high school), with 36,000 students, and the primary curriculum is Shaolin kung-fu:


It's from schools like this that the Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Taiwanese, militaries draw their primary soldiers from. There may be mandatory service for the masses, but most of these soldiers are only in for a short time, receive rudimentary training, and are used primarily in logistics roles, or as highly expendable meat-waves in the case of a conflict.

The officers, non-coms, and elite units, are all drawn from these academies, and form the true core of their militaries. These are kids who's life path is dictated from a very early age. It creates a very specific kind of individual.
 
Do I hear the strains of "I can't get no satisfaction ...." by the Stones .... ? Where's the surf board?

"Charging a man with murder over here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500." Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now".
 
^ It belongs to a local museum and is Russian we tried to get it hooked to the kettenkrad but the German tow hook is to large and the holes at the ends of the trails of the gun 1. do not align and 2. are to small to fit a ketts hook. It certainly would look the part and role. I took the picture yesterday at the Tulip Festival in Ottawa.
 
XRCD011 said:
^ It belongs to a local museum and is Russian we tried to get it hooked to the kettenkrad but the German tow hook is to large and the holes at the ends of the trails of the gun 1. do not align and 2. are to small to fit a ketts hook. It certainly would look the part and role. I took the picture yesterday at the Tulip Festival in Ottawa.
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You know anyone in that re-enacting group?
Many a familiar face and paw in that group to me.
 
Actually no, I met these folks, great guys to lend a hand loading up at the end of day and very respectful to the vehicle when the fellow brushed the grass off the bottom of his boots to sit in the saddle which I thought was very nice and professional. Sort of a nice win/win for them and I very much wanted to bring both of The Boys of 1944 out but with the weather being dodgy and the distances to shuttle back and forth thought having the kettenkrad out in public was the way to go. Good turn out from the public (again considering they where calling for thunderstorms and 80-90 POP all afternoon), keen interest from the public and good questions asked. Seems the Tulip Fest people are starting to fire on all cylinders and I hope it grows each year as it starts the season off nicely.
Sorry Dan but the card has never been found which is a shame as there is now a gapping hole in the record of the restoration. But I take comfort in knowing I have the best kettenkrad in Canada.
 
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