RACE HISTORY
Sir,-TI always find articles by A.M.R, interesting, and "What To Do with the Japanese?" was no exception. But I was startled by his surprise at a young Japanese professor identifying himself with a character from the Middle Ages, He concludes the paragraph by saying: "It means that all that world-so fantastic to us-of ‘honour,’ mortal combat, and derring-do is still the thought atmosphere of Japanese who sweat in steel-yards or fire torpedoes." Do not all races with any history identify themselves with their ancestors, and are not those the strongest and longest abiding that knit the threads of the future, the present, and the past together? Is the fabric weakeried as much by omitting the past as by omitting the
present?. ~
A STRAND
(Dunedin)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 3
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126RACE HISTORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 3
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