This article http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676001/Despite-tragedy-LDS-family-from-Taiwan-finds-comfort-in-fellowship-of-Japanese-members.html I have to love. Japanese and Taiwanese showing love for each other is probably not exceptional, although not all in Taiwan have forgotten the oppressive nature of Japanese colonialism.
Still the myriad ways people in both countries show caring and love for each other shows the Church reaching into the hearts of the people.
This is also why my favorite LDS film is "Freetown". It is the least burdened by Americans of any LDS film I can think of. True, it has an American director, but all the characters are non-Americans, except the mission president and his wife, who have bit parts at the end. All the other characters are Sierra Leonean, or in almost all cases Liberian. However beyond that all the actors were pretty much from those countries or Ghana. The cast is also not American. Only about half the cast is LDS, but I am surprised that they found even that many LDS actors in those 3 countries. They may have also recruited a few Nigerian actors, but it was actors from those countries, not from the US, that were the cast.
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