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Dall'amore di patria al nazionalismo

L’amore per la patria sembra essere coltivato da sempre in Giappone. Questo sentimento è degenerato nel nazionalismo, portando al militarismo della seconda guerra mondiale. Nell’epoca dei Tokugawa, accanto alle cause economiche e religiose, esso contribuì alla chiusura del Paese. Questo sentimento nasce dall’attaccamento al gruppo, trasferito sul piano politico. È un modo per continuare a esaltare il proprio habitat. Nel dopoguerra il nazionalismo è stato ridimensionato e ripudiato. Si persegue la vocazione al pacifismo sancita dalla Costituzione. Ciò nonostante, la mente giapponese continua a privilegiare lo Stato rispetto al singolo: è la conseguenza delle inclinazioni del passato. Ciò conduce a uno sciovinismo marcato, esemplificato dal proverbio: «Se vedi uno straniero, pensa subito che si tratti di un ladro» (hito o mitara, dorobo to omoe).

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#nationalism #war #japan #group

A traveling waldensian preacher was known as a barba

Waldo and his followers developed a system whereby they would go from town to town and meet secretly with small groups of Waldensians. There they would…

Waldensians - Wikipedia #group #town #services #system

Bridging computer scientists and cultural professionals

The problems computer scientists and system implementers have to comprehend the logic of cultural concepts seems to be equally notorious as the inability of…

The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata #computer-scientists #group

Digital humanities as a gentrifying small town

To many, the dig­i­tal human­i­ties feels like a small town that has recently been rated as a great place to raise a fam­ily. It is now inun­dated by…

The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer #group #events #town #place #resources

Envying a foreigner's bovine contentment

The bus stopped in a stutter of traffic, and a man emerged from one of the huts near my window. He was a foreigner, as pale-skinned as any of the new arrivals…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #men #group

Someones and Anyones

a quite useful way of simplifying three forms of subjective experience. The first she calls the ‘Someone’ scenario, which is the normal case of ‘you being…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #individuals #group

The five food groups

Food is broken down into the following five accepeted groups: 1.Bread, cereals and potatoes 2.Fruit and vegetables 3.Milk and diary foods 4.Meat, fish and…

Healthy Eating Guide #group #food