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>>2168491

LOL, stupid illiterate island monkey stretching the truth because to make believe people used to like Japanese barbarians rather than peg them as dodgy human waste.
European artists were bewithced just by exotic places, not Japan. Do you know who Gauguin is, barbarian?
What Japan doesn't want to know is that the world has always looked down on barbaric Japanese customs and their despicable "honor code". Even Prussians, whom Japanese took as a model for their society after the Meiji Era, regarded them as beasts.

The very structure of their language, right down to the overly convoluted writing system and excessive self-deprecation, reflects the condition the population had been forced to live for millennia without any change to speak of.
The basics of Japanese can be chalked up to the desire of shoguns and other greedy local warlords to keep the lower-caste population from climbing the social ladder, or even heightening their knowledge. Basically, it's as if the very aim of the Japanese language were to build a somewhat uncrackable secret language only the powers that be could communicate with.
After all, isn't it strange that in a society such as that of Japan there has never been a Japanese Gutenberg, or a Japanese Martin Luther?
Shoguns and warlords did such a good job at subjugating peasants that they didn't even feel the need to educate themselves. In fact, if it weren't for Commodore Perry blasting those retrograde monkeys out of their everlasting feudal society, they would have wallowed in their lousy middle ages forever.

>>2160836
I stand corrected.
Even so, Japanese-impersonating weeaboos are the worst when they can't admit that logographic writing systems are primitive crap. The West fully grew out of it with Phoenicians, Koreans realized it was crap and dropped it 600 years ago in favor of their own alphabet. Everyone else in the world just followed suit shortly afterward.
It's no wonder that such a writing system has survived for so long. Its original purpose was to serve as an elitarian language for shoguns and assorted warlords, whereas peasants and underlings were to be kept as uneducated and illiterate as possible so that they wouldn't turn to them.

>>2160970
Don't make us contribute to the development of another atomic bomb.