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Erm well no, I used to date a German many years ago, one of my neighbours is German (a more respectable woman you'd struggle to find) in terms of the 2 world wars I'm very proud of the reasons, war aims and successes we achieved. I love my country (it's true) but I don't hate others, I don't know how I've given you that impression, but my future wife is born and bred Chinese and I'm very proud of her.
I do still like a good war film so long as those films are about truth, honour, fraternity, redemption etc. these I'm fully aware are quite jingoistic (escapist?) notions and wholly unrepresentive of real war conditions but they do offer a view of men fighting for goodness, driven by duty to create a better day, if you channel a boys aggression to a positive end he will achieve positive things? I think he will.