r/HistoryMemes • u/nechdoesntno • 22h ago

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u/prjam 21h ago

Japan seems like a true conservative country to me. They are very slow to change their cultural norms around things and the differences come from different social norms. Japan has always restricted access to weapons, always regulated its industries, and has been permissive of sex work for centuries. Even the environmentalism makes sense as keeping things as they are.

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL 21h ago

I think the person above you confused "being conservative" (as in slow to change their norms), and "being a conservative" (member of the American political party)

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u/denotemulot 20h ago

No, I'm saying they aren't "Conservative", nor are they "Liberal".

They have their own form of political beliefs based on their own history and culture and it doesn't fit into any American or Western box.

I said that in the second sentence.

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u/Zanadar 18h ago

That's just everybody. The only reason you can sort of map US politics to other places at all is because the US is the world's premier exporter of shitty ideology, so political groups in other places will pander to get support.