[DISCUSSION] Biggest fears/worst memories

[boscaresque.livejournal.com]

So I was reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earlier (yes, I know :P) and during the parts involving boggarts and dementors, I started thinking about Hetalia and what each nation would see if they encountered either of those creatures. What would their boggarts turn into and what would the dementors force them to relive? I feel so nerdy for even thinking of this

Basically the question is: What are each nation's biggest fears? What about their worst memories? And alternatively, what are their best memories?

Comments

[letthemhavepie.livejournal.com]

Second this. He would probably see two versions of himself: One in Union blues and the other in Confederate grey.
After all the civil war had more deaths then any other war the U.S had combined.

[letthemhavepie.livejournal.com]

*Really Existentialist comment*
But isn't that Humanity's fear...
*cue in dramatic music*
Sorry I had to.
That is very true that Alfred would fear that in the modern sense. I would disagree with you if you said always because America was a pretty die-hard isolationist from the 1800's to Roosevelt but even so America wouldn't break out of the, "isonlationist mold," until WWII.
*random history is random*

[bigfangirl.livejournal.com]

On the contrary America actually was hoping for trade with Japan in the 1800s to early 1900s. Milard Filmore even sent a letter to the japanese emperor preposing friendship and "commercial intercourse" *is doing the homework for history at the moment*. He wanted in with the big powers and saw his opportunity as an industrialized nation to carve a niche for himself in the world.

[letthemhavepie.livejournal.com]

Should not laugh at "commercial intercourse," but totally did.
Yeah we did hang out with Japan with a bit but compared to European countries we only really cared about South American, central America, and the Caribbean and we didn't care about them until late 19th century.
Truth be told one of the majors factors in going to Japan was to show, "how advanced we were."
And to shove it in the face of the Europe who couldn't ge in because of Tokugawa Shogunate...I may be wrong with the name though. Truth be told I suck at Japanese American relations...and off topic post is off topic

[bigfangirl.livejournal.com]

My whole class giggled like idiots. I'm dead serious. I was the first one to laugh though.
That is true, we were like shy nursery schoolers back then. Shy and adorable but very easily attached once conversation is made.
During that time The Tokugawa fell and the Meiji took over. The samurai lost a lot of power then but the nobles remained untouched for the most part. The Shogun stopped being the de facto ruler and power was restored to the emperor as well. The bureaucracy was streamlined as well and after a series of somewhat unfair treaties Japan was opened up to the world at about a dozen or so ports, i believe. America was the first though- aside from the dutch whom the asians seemed to like for some reason. This was when Japan industrialized and i think the russo-japanese war was also at this time. Japanese industrialization was very successful in the end.
/fail/ sorry for being off-topic.