Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | Morgil |
| Date | 2002-05-25 09:30 (2002-05-25 10:30) |
| Message-ID | <3CEF3D93.72692EF1@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
| Followups | ?jevind L?ng (3h & 17m) Flame of the West (15h & 58m) |
"?jevind L?ng" wrote:
?jevind L?ngPerhaps 'western influences' was a bit uncorrect term. They did copy western things but they got rid of western people who were trying to control them and the weak leaders who were unable to stop this.
"Morgil" wrote:
[snip]Morgil?jevind L?ng
Besides, Japanese started with strenghtening their religious traditions and building a spirit of extreme nationalism by getting rid of western influences, just like the Arabs are trying to do now...
No, the Japanese did not start by getting rid of western influences. On the contrary, they started by copying things western, sometimes quite slavisly. Incidentally, one thing they imported was parliamentarism, which, after some hiccoughs, started to work and did so until the militarists took over in the 1930's.
After the Second World War, the Japanese Parliament once more worked the way it was supposed to to - as a democratically elected insitution for law-making and debate. Alas, at present few Arab countries seem interested in something similar. That might change, of course.I blame Israel. ;-)
Seriously though, the everlasting conflict between Israel and Palestine is one major thing that is preventing this kind of progress.
Morgil
2002-03-30-
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