Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

--- Allan Goodall <agoodall@att.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:19:56 -0700 (PDT), John
> Atkinson
> <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >The Japanese didn't get
> >effective democracy until we nuked them flat.
> 
> I will only slightly disagree with you here in the
> sense that it's debatable
> whether or not they actually _did_ get effective
> democracy. *grin* It's
> obvious that corporations have become the new
> aristocracy in Japan.

That's a topic that's too hot to discuss on a public
list.  I'll go off on the subject off-list, but those
who are pro-Japanese culture would probably send me
mail bombs if I posted that here.

John

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