EAS105H1 Chapter 1: Norman Bryson — Westernizing bodies
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A club where high placed japanese could mix freely with western visitors (90) Indeed, it has now become difficult to distinguish them from their sisters of the west (92) Inoue unless the japanese made the empire like the countries of europe and our people like the peoples of europe, japan could not keep up individually as a strong independent nation from the western powers (friendly competition) The women of rokumeikan, japanese and non-japanese alike, were the great equalizer of the show. The more we assimilate the foreign methods, the higher we mount in the scale of humanity. The state of asiatic nations and the success of japan in maintaining a national existence by the very fact of recognizing the supremacy of the west. (100) Explain where the author found this info and why you think she chose it. Why this quote was chosen (for what purpose was it used for)
