The World Revolution Of Westernization By Theodore Van Laue

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Japan had seen the Western advances in China and knew that it had to transform their society. Japan knew about Western thought through the ongoing contact with the Dutch even during the Japanese isolation. Theodore Van Laue in his document The world Revolution of Westernization, 1987 explains Westernization as ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, and military technologies that have come from Europe. Modernization and Nationalism are two terms that are associated with Westernization. Modernization is a similar theory that applies to Japan because it refers to the transition from traditional to a modern society and nationalism was seen as a Western movement because it was brought on by the Meiji period to promote unity and patriotism. There are many …show more content…

They demonstrated power of its science, technology, and military by colonizing much of the world." (Reily 885) Japan would understand the force that western traders have through experience with them since 1543 but controlled their spread of influence. The Act of Seclusion in 1636 made it so that Japan could limit the contact it had with European influence with a Dutch colony in Japan for 200 years. During this time many revolutions were happing and you could see that thought out many of the chapters. Revolution affected different cultures and areas around the world like Japan. One of the goals of revolution was to westernize the world, which meant make everything advanced as possible. Nationalism came from Westernization, people needed to become patriotic and take pride in a cause. With Nationalism in affect people could get used to the changes and be able to adapt it to their cultures. Of course some cultures did not like the change, they didn’t want these new ideas of thinking or change to influence their way of

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