Sarah Paine

Anyway, that's what happened to him.

But I think it's the feeling that there's no need, right?

And it goes back to grossly underestimating other people and the problem with racism.

You know, you think you're so special and other people are so unspecial.

Wrong.

And then the Japanese are amazing.

Think about it.

They're on the group of seven, right?

of major economies, right?

It's major economies and major democracies.

They're the only non-Western power there.

And they don't get there out of charity.

It's out of their own achievements.

So it's an enormous achievement.

And what's tragic about World War II

is if they hadn't done that, people will be looking at the Meiji reforms in order to model what they're going to do to get over the hump and develop.

And in fact, a lot of the things that Deng Xiaoping does in terms of investments and things rhymes with Meiji reforms.

And if you look at the, what is it, the four little tigers that originally Singapore, Hong Kong, and

was it Korea and Taiwan, whatever I'm missing, a lot of their development, it parallels in a lot of ways of what the Meiji reformers did.

Well, these are Japanese ideas, but they're not getting credit for them because of the brutality of World War II, where you're thinking of that and thinking, well, if I say nice things about Japan, it's I'm endorsing this other stuff.