jeanleonino OP t1_j57sq5k wrote
Reply to comment by ShalmaneserIII in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino
And... Christianity wasn't being brought in just for the religion sake. It was a way to open up the country for possible colonizers. Maybe there wouldn't be a Japan, but a British or Portuguese colony that would lose all its cultural roots.
Freak_Out_Bazaar t1_j57w0te wrote
Japan would still exist. After all, South Korea, The Philippines and Mexico, exist. Beyond Europe I think it would be difficult to wipe out entire cultures
jeanleonino OP t1_j580scd wrote
Not wipe, but completely change them yes - look at south east Asia, basically only Thailand survived intact.
Shotgun_Sentinel t1_j586lmh wrote
Mexico and the Philippines are very much a Spanish colony in culture. Korea isn’t however.
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