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<blockquote data-quote="osarusan" data-source="post: 9145352" data-attributes="member: 13950"><p>To be fair, the white savior complex in that movie is strong. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> Of course it takes a white man to teach the barbarian Japanese how to follow their own (ridiculously romanticized) ideals.</p><p></p><p>But it's true that towards the end of the Edo period, the shogun's strength was impotent and crumbling, and the government was unable to keep up with the times. There's a popular myth that Japan was completely closed off to the world during the Edo period, but that's not true. There was plenty of external trade, scientific, technological, and political intercourse; it was just tightly controlled by the central government. By the late 1700s, the bakufu was imposing tighter and tighter restrictions, censorship, and other futile methods of holding on to their control, and by the 1850s, it was completely untenable. Increased foreign trade was bringing new diseases to Japan, which were wreaking havoc across the country. The 1800s saw cholera epidemic after cholera epidemic, and regional governors were beginning to strongly doubt the bakufu's ability to manage the country. The "black ships" that Matthew Perry shocked Japan with were the straw that broke the camel's back -- or maybe more like a tree that broke the camel's back. The camel was going to break anyway after a couple more straws, but the impact of those steamships accelerated what was already an inevitable change. And they make for a great "Aha!" focal point for historians to point to. But really, the writing was on the wall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="osarusan, post: 9145352, member: 13950"] To be fair, the white savior complex in that movie is strong. :p Of course it takes a white man to teach the barbarian Japanese how to follow their own (ridiculously romanticized) ideals. But it's true that towards the end of the Edo period, the shogun's strength was impotent and crumbling, and the government was unable to keep up with the times. There's a popular myth that Japan was completely closed off to the world during the Edo period, but that's not true. There was plenty of external trade, scientific, technological, and political intercourse; it was just tightly controlled by the central government. By the late 1700s, the bakufu was imposing tighter and tighter restrictions, censorship, and other futile methods of holding on to their control, and by the 1850s, it was completely untenable. Increased foreign trade was bringing new diseases to Japan, which were wreaking havoc across the country. The 1800s saw cholera epidemic after cholera epidemic, and regional governors were beginning to strongly doubt the bakufu's ability to manage the country. The "black ships" that Matthew Perry shocked Japan with were the straw that broke the camel's back -- or maybe more like a tree that broke the camel's back. The camel was going to break anyway after a couple more straws, but the impact of those steamships accelerated what was already an inevitable change. And they make for a great "Aha!" focal point for historians to point to. But really, the writing was on the wall. [/QUOTE]
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