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  108. MacArthur admired Japanese and Asian culture more than American culture after having first been exposed to it living in Japan at age 18 and spending much of his adult life in Asia. Japan's post war economic success had nothing at all to do with him. It was grounded in two factors, explained here: "1) After the war, Japan had lost more than a quarter of its industrial capacity and was only left with over-depreciated capital stock that had no use. This allowed Japan to adopt an abundance of new technologies without having to wait for assets to be fully depreciated, fueling Japan’s voracious appetite to start fresh and innovate. The number of contracts signed to import new technology, mainly in industries such as iron, steel, petrochemicals, electronics, motor manufacturing, and chemical engineering—sectors characterized by extremely high growth rates" 2) "Government policies favoring these technological changes were implemented. First, the government aggressively used expansionary monetary policy to create “cheap money,” such that growing industries had access to low-cost funds. Interest rates were rigid and closely monitored to be kept low, and corporate businesses were over borrowing while banks over loaned. The government also rewarded growing businesses with generous depreciation provisions and tax deductions; large, more rapidly growing corporations had lower tax rates than smaller, slower-growing firms. Personal income taxation was also slowed through partial exemption of interest and dividend incomes from taxation."
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  202. No there was never any suggestion that English be made the national language of Japan. No Abraham Lincoln and Ben Franklin were not held up as heroes in textbooks. What Perry's gunboat diplomacy did show Japan however was that an island nation in the modern world had to have a strong navy. The real most influential American in Japan was in fact Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. His book, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" became the Bible of Japanese policy. "Scholars agree that Japanese strategists leapt at Mahan’s theories. Mahan recalled that his works had been more widely translated into Japanese than any other language. In 1902, Admiral Yamamoto Gombei paid tribute to Mahan’s analytical skills, offering him a teaching post at Japan’s Naval Staff College." This naval buildup enabled Japan for the first time to turn the tables on their neighbors such as China, Russia and Korea. As far as the post war years, Japan's success was based mainly in two areas: 1) currency policy which enabled a very liquid economy perfect for investment, along with the traditional Japanese generally conservative attitude toward saving over consumption and 2) the sudden need by the US and other western nations to create a bulwark against communism, first in 1946 against the Soviets as laid out by George Kennan in "The Long Telegram, and then against Mao after the Chinese victory in 1949. The fact that Sowell doesn't even mention the communist threat in this video illustrates how little history he actually knows.
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  270. A 19th Century-type of white civilizer's history, totally disconnected from reality. No, there was never any suggestion in Japan that English be made the national language. There was no description of the US as an "earthly paradise" since Japanese immigrants were often despised. For instance in California farming communities they were deeply resented for their conservative and productive methods. As James Michener accurately described in his novel "Hawaii", they were brought in by the missionaries turned agri-businessmen to replace the native Hawaiian population but of course were viewed as subservient by their American employers. Furthermore, there was no early 20th Century change in the Japanese character. What changed was that industrialization brought a way to project traditional Japanese culture into a world power. See for instance how in the late 19th Century Japan reversed their traditional relationship with China from being the defensive nation to the offensive nation based on guns and steel not possessed by the Chinese. Ironically, everything that Sowell says the Japanese did to prove themselves not inferior is exactly like the 100 year post-Civil War white American attitude toward black people, the violence, the humiliations etc. The rest of the MacArthur stuff is the final part of the myth which Kipling described as "taking up the white man's burden" Left out of the myth is that Mac Arthur's father Arthur had been military governor of the Philippines and military attaché in Japan. So Douglas Mac Arthur was more influenced by Asian culture than Asian culture was by him. In fact he spent as much or more of his adult life far from the US than he did in the US. He is correctly credited though with saving the life and position of the Emperor and there has been much discussion among scholars pro and con about that.
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  533. Kurt Russell doesn't know jack about the 2nd Amendment. Individual gun ownership was comparatively little in the colonies, except for hunting rifles held by those living close to the frontier of course. Handguns were very pricey, exclusively close range weapons, (the Mel Gibson movie notwithstanding), and completely useless at distance. They were used mostly for ceremonial purposes, like dueling of course, which is why the standard dueling distance was about 10-12 yards. Any farther away and there would have been no danger at all. There were so few guns in the American colonies overall that the Continental Congress spent the entire war trying to obtain them. The majority of guns used by the Continental Army came from the Dutch, French and Spanish. What guns were not held on frontier farms were kept locked up in the town powder storehouse along with shot for use by the militia (hence the 2nd Amendment reference to that). If you are familiar with the battles of Lexington and Concord, it's really about the patriots taking the powder, guns and shot from militia storage and transporting them to be hidden outside the towns. One museum exhibit summarizes the situation: "Patriots had begun to amass caches of weapons as tensions grew in the months leading up to the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, seizing British arms from royal storehouses, provincial magazines and supply ships. At the beginning of the Revolution, the army relied on soldiers to bring weapons from home, including hunting guns, militia arms and outdated martial weapons from the French and Indian War. American soldiers also carried weapons captured from the enemy in the field and reissued to Continental and state troops. A growing number of American manufacturers produced weapons on government contracts, as the domestic arms industry expanded to try to meet the demand, but they could not sustain the American troops through a long conflict. Success on the battlefield ultimately depended on the hundreds of thousands of arms supplied by France and Spain. Shipments of arms and ammunition from France began arriving in 1776 and continued for the rest of the war." So it's a complete myth that individual American gun ownership was the key to our becoming an independent nation because everybody owned one and was trained to shoot. Finally, Volokh is clearly wrong about the right of the people. Whenever the phrase is used, it means as a group, not individually. For instance you can't form an assembly with just one person, so the right of the people to assemble implies engaging in group activity. Finally, every single member of the Supreme Court DOES believe you CAN abridge the right of the people to bear arms, because you cannot under any circumstance bring a gun into the Supreme Court building. (nor into the Capitol either of course)
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  1530.  @Vulneravariable  Thomas Sowell is an obvious racist and a huge anti-Semite, so it doesn't follow that you would admire him if you are not. I will illustrate for you how far wrong Sowell is historically speaking. Slavery in the US had two main justifications. Christians justified it by saying that blacks were the cursed descendants of Ham, so their plight was God's choice not that of slave owners. The second justification is the inferiority argument which was near universally held among the "elite" like Thomas Jefferson long before any of the "progressives" in this video were even born. Here is what he wrote in "Notes on the State of Virginia" in 1782: "They seem to require less sleep. A black, after hard labor through the day, will be induced by the slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, or later, though knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the morning. They are at least as brave, and more adventuresome. But this may perhaps proceed from a want of forethought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous . . . I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind"
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