- Joined
- Jul 18, 2017
I blame a combination of the familiarity of contempt coupled with a healthy dose of historical demoralization by commies. There is this deeply ingrained idea in people's heads that Europe somehow was always this ignorant backwater with no culture and wat not that only got to where they are today by stealing everyone else's shit.From what I heard it seems like people don't realize that Japan isn't a Ghibli film (excluding Princess Mononoke) and that it was a massive shithole up to very late later in history. It was basically endless clan wars, social hierarchy with no class mobility, nobility that will absolutely fuck you up for a perceived insults and getting fucked over by the weather. Excluding diseases, Europe was (and let's face it, still is) a superior place to live in.
Of course not true. If Europe truly was an ignorant backwater it would not have been able to steamroll everyone else and then build an Imperial architecture that lasted for centuries. Also culturally, during the time period of Blue Eue Samurai, you had the likes of Shakespear, Johanne Pachabel and other luminaries of the early englightenemt, while Rennaisance greats like Michaelangelo were already a century in the grave.