Damn these industrial imperialist island nations
Damn these industrial imperialist island nations
First to industrialize
The Japanese were dumbstruck when the Dutch showed them machinery. They had been handpicking rice and painting lewd pictures of octopi up until that point.
96First to industrialize amongst their neighbors. And mechanization of rice harvesting is a very late invention.
As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
67First to industrialize amongst their neighbors.
The OP is still misleading to make his point.
As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
Most famous example from 1814 (NSFW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife Although I bet that for a popular artist to be able to publish this openly, it probably means it was already floating in the culture before. The article mentions earlier netsuke, but without dates and the sources are books.
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Some of them still do the second one. And it may have rubbed of on everyone else
19They might be the fastest to industrialize, at least.
7They were so late to industrialize that they were using mules/donkeys to taxi new zero planes from the factory to the runway during WW2.
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The whitewashed curry came to Japan via the British Royal Navy.
26Well it is good stuff. Best currys outside their country of orgin are being cooked here.
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Fried fish was introduced to England by the resident Jewish population in London, along with fried chips. They had migrated to England from the Netherlands, and Portugal/Spain before that.
20You should probably reread the last part of the post
17I wasn’t saying it was wrong, just sharing some fun history facts…
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Oh, I just read a book called 1632 that touched on this. If I recall the term for them was Sephardic Jews, and due to prejudice large portions of them moved around until settling in England because the monarchy at the time promised protection. They still weren’t allowed real positions of power, but did fill many roles as financial advisers.
Of course the book was published 25 years ago, so some of that information may be outdated.
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Would've thought that China would've had a bigger historical empire than Japan?
17Historically yes, but in the 19th and early 20th century, Japan expanded significantly, while China shrunk. China was still bigger, but Japan had 'gained' more imperial territory, if that makes sense.
19So I guess this would this also take into account a difference between an "Empire" and a "kingdom" or other proto-nation-state-ish polity.
7What would make more sense is if the OP situated it in recent history in some way, it would have made his post more clever.
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Also driving on the left for roughly the same reason.
12Japanese curry is not white-washed...
12It's Indian curry by way of white people, readapted to the Japanese.. It most certainly IS white-washed. They just dyed it back to make it less white.
20Like a maraschino cherry.
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Yeah it is often sold very spicy and is fucking incredible.
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