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There is a difference in that European wars were fought by nations that more or less were on even footing with eachother and in peacetime heavily exchanged people, ideas, and culture, while in East Asia you had backwater nations that were at the mercy of the modern European powers and Japan. That's why I said in my OP nationalism is perceived differently. In Europe, especially the obvious candidate Germany, there is a sentiment that nationalism created unecessary conflict when the nations had so much in common with eachother.
On the flipside, immigrants to Western countries already feel a sense of humiliation being discouraged from speaking their native tongue, so imagine for several decades a foreign army made it so that people couldn't even speak their native tongue in their own land. Since many Asian nations only recently came out of colonialism, that's why nationalism is held more closely to the chest.
It took a war for Europe to get out of its mindset and I doubt one in Asia will pop up that's devastating enough, nor should we hope that one does. That's why I say the mutual enmities and nationalism no matter how far we develop might be here to stay. Pop culture exchange can only go so far, since political interests will be there to stay and determine policy.
