That's so un-American!!!

So, today in class we played "war games." One team was the good team (blue) and one was supposed to be the "enemy" (red). In this game, Red wanted control of island Green which had declared independence. Blue wanted Green to stay independent and out of the hands of Red. The teacher did, though, imply that Blue was the US (as it generally is in military games, apparently), Red was China and Green was Taiwan. The funny thing about this experiment was our group. We divided into two groups- Red and Blue. Red was told that they were to attack first. On our team (Blue), there was a Chinese student and a Canadian. So the Chinese student wanted to know why the US cares so much about Taiwan, but mostly just went along with us (our goal was to decide what we would do in different situations. The funniest thing, though, was the Canadian student. He said that if Red attacks us, we should just give up Green because Green is not officially our ally so we have no responsibility to it. That definitely did not fly with the American students. But it was funny. He kept insisting that we just let Green go. Which, technically, makes sense I guess. But the rest of us said, "yeah, that's sorta true. But that is NOT what America would do. It's unrealistic." So it was just interesting because we as Americans think, "no, we can't back down. Fight for Green's independence!" but non-Americans don't really think that way...

Also, I'm currently watching The Jungle Book for the first time in years...very entertained. I don't remember ANY of this! Wow....it must have been longer than I thought...I think "Bare Necessities" is coming up...