From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 20:54:14 EST
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote:
>
> > Because according to the articles this was the original English
> > spelling before the occupying Japanese authorities changed the initial
> > C by a K so that Korea would follow Japan in alphabetical order.
If those 20 assemblymen have time and energy to deal with this foolish
name change business, they had better push for a bill to punish (even
post-mortem?) collabortors to the Japanese colonialist as France did
after WW II.
> This seems very misguided, if true. Alphabetical primacy can hardly be
> considered an effective measure of the relative power or importance of a
> nation.
I totally agree with you on all you wrote except for the following:
> Furthermore, Japan in the pre-WWII era was still relatively isolated and
> anti-Western.
Actually, that depends on what period (before WW II) you look into.
For instance, Japan in 1920's (before the emergence of the 'empiral'
'army' into the power) can hardly be characterized as 'anti-Western'. When
it comes to being isolated, I think it's even farther from true even
with 'relatively'.
Jungshik
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