On May 23, 2007, at 10:08 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
The Japanese who were trying to deal with the Catholic priests who were trying to convert them (in a time and place in which one *never* tried to impose one's religion on another person) had a term that they applied to that sad period of history. They called it "the invasion of the barbarians."
Barry, this wouldn't be the same Japanese culture responsible for the deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of civilians in Nanking, would it? Maybe the slaughter was carried out very politely.
Sal