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( 6 pp.) The more we learn about history and
cultural diversity, the more we learn about the
layers of impact that one culture may have on
another. It is one of these layers of impact,
which we will examine in relationship to western
influences on Japan. This will be done with the
assistance of Chinua Achebe's 1959 African novel,
Things Fall Apart, and the Autobiography of
Yukichi Fukuzawa (1966).
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with the assistance of Chinua Achebes 1959 African novel, Things Fall Apart, and the Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa (1966). Bbafrjap.doc AN APPROACH TO WESTERN INFLUENCES
IN JAPAN Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., April 2001 Note to student: check on your assignment sheet and see if the two source
books should be listed as Bibliography -they are only listed in the introduction of this sample paper. Introduction The more we learn about history and cultural diversity, the more we
learn about the layers of impact that one culture may have on another. It is one of these layers of impact, which we will examine in relationship to western
influences on Japan. This will be done with the assistance of Chinua Achebes 1959 African novel, Things Fall Apart, and the Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa i (1966). Influence
of tradition Early in Achebes novel, the narrator, Umuofia says, " Fortunately among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of
his father" (6). Ancestors are of course honored; we can see that through the conversations of the elders, he dialogue that elders Ezeudu, Ezenwa, and Obierika. This is
a most honorable system, and one that idealistically we as westerners claim that we choose to emulate. It is a historical fact that for years United States stance
in other parts of the world, got us labeled the "ugly Americans." That had nothing to do with our physical beauty, but rather our arrogant presentation of preference, or
supposed knowledge. Yet in Japan, at the time of the Western "exposure," we know that the belief system, and therefore the major influence
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