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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 4.

Intense Nationalism

Intense Nationalism

Any observations one makes on the Japanese people must be read subject to the qualification that a bare month is too short a time in which to form accurate impressions of a country. These comments are not intended to be taken as dogmatic statements.

Probably the characteristic that struckus most forcibly was the intense nationalism of Japan: everyone is one hundred per cent. Japan-minded. This is a well-known characteristic, but we would see it in many things, from the methods of education to the conduct of football crowds and the spirit of the players. It is worth noting that even Janpanese immigrants, particularly to the Phillippine Islands (where there are about 80,000 of them) remain intensely Japanese inoutlook, wearing food, and buying only Japanese goods. They never regard themselves as citizen of the Philippines.