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* ValuesDissonance: The captain worries that the aliens might appear "nice and friendly and polite", but underneath have the "sneaking brutal ferocity of a Japanese." The line was understandable when memories of the attack on Pearl Harbor were still raw, but comes across as [[ZeeRust bizarrely]] racist now, when Japanese people fall more in the stereotype of capitalists or nerds.

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* ValuesDissonance: The captain worries that the aliens might appear "nice and friendly and polite", but underneath have the "sneaking brutal ferocity of a Japanese." The line was understandable when memories of the attack on Pearl Harbor were still raw, but comes across as [[ZeeRust bizarrely]] racist now, when Japanese people fall more in the stereotype of capitalists or nerds. For this reason, references to Japanese were removed in later editions.
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* ValuesDissonance: The captain worries that the aliens might appear "nice and friendly and polite", but underneath have the "sneaking brutal ferocity of a Japanese." The line was understandable when memories of the attack on Pearl Harbour were still raw, but comes across as [[ZeeRust bizarrely]] racist now.

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* ValuesDissonance: The captain worries that the aliens might appear "nice and friendly and polite", but underneath have the "sneaking brutal ferocity of a Japanese." The line was understandable when memories of the attack on Pearl Harbour Harbor were still raw, but comes across as [[ZeeRust bizarrely]] racist now.now, when Japanese people fall more in the stereotype of capitalists or nerds.
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* ValuesDissonance: The captain worries that the aliens might appear "nice and friendly and polite", but underneath have the "sneaking brutal ferocity of a Japanese." The line was understandable when memories of the attack on Pearl Harbour were still raw, but comes across as [[ZeeRust bizarrely]] racist now.

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