Multiple Perspectives

I thought Caruth's passage on Hiroshima mon amor was quite interesting. It intorduced a concept of trauma that I didn't think of before. Caruth talked about the impact of the Hiroshima bombing in terms of the French people and then in terms of the Japanese man. It should how the French cheered and raved at the end of the war; and how it signified a new beginning for the people of the world. While on the other hand the same event was traumatic for the people of Japan and the Japanese man who lost his family, and his entire life in Hiroshima.

I thought this passage kind of flowed with the quote "One man's Terrorist is another man's Hero"

This is why I thought Jeff Dunham's Achmed the dead terroist appropriate for this blog. Especially since we went to the American Military meseum. There was on display i found a little disturbing, it was of a Japanese uniform, and the tag in the case said "taken [from the field] off of a Japanese soldier. I then thought of this skit that Jeff Dunham performs, It may be funny for us American's, but is it funny for the families that had a family lost do to terrorism or succomb to the terrorist mvement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go