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Subject:
About ruining Japanese culture - to USN-MID
Alexis
7/7/2004 10:18:34 AM
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About your statement that Japanese culture was ruined by Meiji and post-WW2 modernizations, I strongly differ.
What does ruining a culture mean ? If it means changing life, then Western culture must be ruined by now, since we do not build many cathedrals these days, and do not appear to be very obedient to our baron, count & dukes lordships ?
I would say the surest way of ruining a culture is to prevent it from coming to grasps with the challenges of the time, from integrating them and answering to them in a way that is precisely adapted to the country's culture.
If that is the definition of ruining a culture, then the most f***ed-up culture now is probably the Arabo-Muslim one, since its main answer to today's challenges is presently a lethal drive to recreate a statist "golden age".
What ruined part of Japanese culture was the early-17th century decision to totally close the country and its culture and answering the challenge of those strange long nosed white people by closing oneself out of history.
On the other hand, the changes brought about by the Meiji reformation, just as by the post-WWII reformation (even if the latter was foreign-imposed) enabled the tackling of their problems by the Japanese, the birth of local responses, including e.g. a form of capitalism which is quite particular to that culture (and the South Korean one, to be fair) ... and finally gave power to Japan, and enough DESERVED self-assurance to protect their culture the natural way.
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