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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jsnggltt, post: 964004, member: 8637&quot;]I think you mis-interperate my meaning.</p><p>I was speaking of the &quot;demonization&quot; of war time enemies:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]204343[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]204344[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It would have been quite natural for the Indonesians to be argy at the occupation. But it would be equally natural for Sri Lankan people to imagine the Japanese as evil for bombing their island and for that sentiment to show up in the theater/ceremony of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the war the masks might have been given to the Brits as tokens of appreciation or when over time that sentiment passed away those masks would have no cultural relevance and would then be sold off to the touristas that did not know any better <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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