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Or is there to be modification of both? In other words, is there to be a new civilization a Japanese, an Occidento-Oriental civilization? The answer is plain to him who has eyes with which to see. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?
In saying, then, as we did in our first chapter, that the Japanese have already formed an Occidento-Oriental civilization, we meant that Japan has introduced not only the external and mechanical elements of Western civilization into her new social order, but also its inner and determinative principle individualism.
In like manner the mental and moral history of Japan has so stamped certain characteristics on her language, on her thought, and above all on her temperament and character, that, however she may strive to Westernize herself, it is impossible for her to obliterate her Oriental features. She will inevitably and always remain Japanese. Japan has already produced an Occidento-Oriental civilization.
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