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Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit (www.tofugu.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Arahnya@hexbear.net to c/history@hexbear.net

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I havent read the whole article yet, its pretty interesting but also relevant for current times.

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

tl;dr: A westernized son of a samurai extrapolated the already-romanticized imaginary western chivalry of Knights and his own Christian values to samurai, thus attributing to them 'bushido', which bolstered the burgeoning bourgeois and later imperialist state of Japan.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Thank you, trusty base-superstructure my old friend.