Why is Japan the only country that seems to portray their warrior class in a negative way...

Because when they did not, we got World War 2.

Frankly, I wish other countries followed their lead. I miss games like Half Life where USA marines were immoral thugs.

Warring states period

The JSDF has never actually had to fulfill its purpose of defending Japan from an attack. No one believes they could fight off China either. The US military is obligated to defend them, and regularly patrols the seas already. You can understand why it's regarded as a giant waste of tax dollars.

Did you not see the book posted? The knights in are pricks compared to Robin Hood who also shows up in the book, and the villains try to rape a jewess.

>villains try to rape a jewess.
Don't seem like villains to me.

I was under the impression that Japanese media portrayed samurai as the awesomest noblest people ever despite that not being historically accurate.

There's a few stories like that, but a majority are quite the opposite

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>Compulsory education will bestow a certain amount of knowledge on many, but it will bury the excellent few.
What did he mean by this? I genuinely don't understand his reasoning, how would the "excellent few" get buried? With compulsory education, the "excellent few" have a chance to stand out and reach their full potential instead of wasting their life being farmers for their feudal lord because their parents were born poor.

I thought it wasn't that tsujigiri was explicitly allowed, but rather that there was no authority that could've stopped samurai from doing it until the Tokugawas re-established order and cracked down on the practice.

This isn't even true why call someone a retard if you can't do basic historical research. Sad.

It probably boils down to them losing WW2, which caused them to more closely criticise the ruling class that started the war (who all tended to follow or at least try to follow samurai traditions of bushido and whatnot, and who probably drew their lineage from old samurai families in the first place). That led to historical criticism, which then led to a much more realistic and factual basis for the portrayal of samurai, tending even towards a bias against them in media.

It's a matter of efficiency, why bother wasting resources on the masses, essentially.

His argument would probably state that the resources should be diverged towards finding and nourishing exceptional talent instead of a standard education.

He is pretty much on point in regards of democracy

I mean, that's kind of what already happens in Japan. The best of the best go to the best high schools, and the mediocre students go to the meh high schools.

Maybe, but that's probably not how she described it to him.

Yeah but you have to remember that the Japanese education system has an extremely heavy emphasis on rote memorisation over all else. Creative thinking is not encouraged while conformity is prioritised, which clearly would not sit well with Nobunaga who apparently as a young man ran wild, more or less.

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Ivanhoe is not much of a criticism of warrior class. It comes in hard against the norman nobles and military church, but the good guys are all very martial and chivalrous, and Robin Hood is the only one of them without rank. And he runs his operation like a nobleman

The Japs seem to do a lot of thinking and produce a lot of media about the warring states. This is in contrast to the West, where the media does not want you thinking about Euro and US history or anything else really.

Isn't every minute of Game of Thrones basically "nobles ruining the world"?

The dichotomy is
>the excellent few are picked out and raised to polish their individual talents
vs
>the masses will receive a similar level of education, which means the geniuses will be taught below their ability, and with no specialization
It's essentialy a quality vs quantity argument

Romanticization and media about the medieval times, knights and chivalry were quite popular from 1950s to 1990s. As were portrayals of Rome. I think we're currently amidts a glut of counter-culture that views those sorts of things as "played out", "simplistic" or "unrealistic".

Yeah, it's currently the fashion to criticise ("critically re-evaluate") aspects of the past. We in the west just happened to get to that phase later than the Japanese because they lost the war.

Because they were indeed fat nigs who shot arrows like cowards while the peasants were out in front with straw mats and thrown together spears.

I would say it's the myth of 'evolution' (in literary terms) playing out. We're downplaying the past in order to elevate the present.

>1950s to 1990s
lol

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So the TRUE SAMURAI, the protagonist, can be portrayed as heroic

If you've ever been to a school, any school, you know that's not how shit works anywhere. The ones with the least soul work the hardest and get the best grades, simple as that. School doesn't test for aptitude, it tests for effort, because that's what capitalism desires most, hard workers. Everyone just assumes that brilliance will rise to the top like cream in milk, but that's where the analogy fails, as no one ever actually concerns themselves with ensuring this to be the case.

It's a wide range, so of course you can find portrayals both ways.

What do you mean? Samurai being the epitome of honor is a propaganda that still persists today.

There are many economic theories that actually attest that the best don't get promoted accordingly, or that the wrong people systematically get the wrong positions.

Like, hierarchical promotions in workplace might mean that the person that's the best at Job X is usually promoted to Job Y as a reward, but that has the assumption that being good at job X makes you good at job Y, which is usually not the case.

Of course, the counterargument states that if the person is best at Job X, he will never be promoted because he's too valuable when doing Job X, meaning that his talents might be squandered.

But yeah, we assume that the best get paid the most, as that's the best method of valuation we have for skill.

>You can understand why it's regarded as a giant waste of tax dollars.
I hope you are aware that the japanese who hate the JSDF is not for a money issue. It's because of the US politics to castrate Japan national feeling after the WWII. A lot of japanese are afraid of war and ashamed of their Showa era past. They think that having an army and to be a patriot is bad because their daddy the US told them so and punished them for being baddies in the past. They are pathetic but it's mainly the US fault. Nothing to do with money. But thank god these cowards are a minority in Japan and there is talk about Japan having a real army once again.

They definitely should have one, relying on America for self-defense is foolish.

It's also really cool and can let you greate greater Japan in the future.

>Food shortages stamped out so effectively in the Western world that we don't even question potentially missing a meal
>Myth of progress lol
I appreciate history a lot, but its glorification and downplaying the achievements of the present day behind the usual trite criticisms about how we're so "out of touch" and "passive" are far worse, when not outright harmful.