The First 'Jesse, WTF Are You Talking About?' Meme Was Posted On This Date Five Years Ago
People Are Not Happy About The New Live Action Lilo & Stitch; 'Look What They Did To Our Diva'
Seven Years Ago, A /Biz/nessman Gave This Memorable Advice On Dealing With Negative Emotions
'The Girl I Pulled By Being Goofy' Is The Perfect Vibe For This Penguin And Goth Girl In A Grocery Store
This Random YouTube Comment About A Horse Has Been A Growing Meme Since 2022

The Spaniards, like the Portuguese, regarded the Japanese as "white," and associated their whiteness with comeliness. "The inhabitants of these islands are good-looking, white, and bearded ." wrote the Spaniard Garcia de Escalante Alvarado in 1548.76 The Spanish merchant Bernadino de Avila Girón wrote in 1600 that the Japanese "are well-built and for the most part have short, flat noses, albeit there are many people with goodly features, aquiline noses and large eyes...." The Chinese, in contrast, had been depicted by Caspar da Cruz as "ill- featured, having small eyes, and their faces and noses flat, and ... beardless...." 78 "77 If the Japanese were a white people, their women were particularly white. Garcia de Escalante Alvarado declared that "... the women have mostly very white complexions and are very beautiful." "9 Avila Girón was perhaps most enthusiastic about the whiteness and beauty of Japanese women, which indeed he found required less cosmetic assistance than the pulchritude of western women. The women are white and usually of good appearance; indeed, many are extremely comely and graceful ... The women use neither perfume nor oil on their faces, neither do they use those filthy things which the women of our country are wont to employ. For indeed there are [Spanish] women who possess more bottles, phials and jugs of cosmetics than any apothecary, yet for all that they do not have a better complexion than the Japanese woman who merely washes her face in water from any pond. But it is true that as a mark of honor married women are accustomed to putting on a little powder dissolved in water (although it is not really necessary) and a touch of color on their lips.... 80 Like Portuguese commentators, Avila Girón praised the Japanese woman's virtues, suggesting, indeed, that as a group, these "white" women might be the very best people in the world. The Japanese were not always viewed as honorary Europeans or long- estranged kin, however. Many accounts emphasize their uniqueness and contrariety. Frois penned many distichs emphasizing how opposite the Japanese were from westerners in their eating, clothing, education, battle tactics, architecture, and various habits.54 Yet they were eminently civilized and they were white in a period which, as Donald Lach has noted, "the whitest peoples" encountered by an expanding Europe "generally met European standards," and were even regarded as "superior in some regards...." 55 Reports on Japan, as early as that of Marco Polo, noted the pale coloration of the inhabitants. The people of "Cipangu," wrote the Venetian, "are white, civilized, and well-favored," and the first European visitors to the country in the sixteenth century uniformly made the same observation.56 The Florentine Francesco Carletti (b. 1572) recalled that the women he had met in Japan between 1597 and 1598 had been "moderately pretty, with a rather pale complexion." 57 "The Japanese are white," wrote the Portuguese Jesuit João Rodrigues (1561-1633) ... although not excessively pale as the northern nations but just moderately so. They have goodly, somewhat round features, and as regards facial appearance they look like the genuine Chinese of the interior, not those of Canton; they also resemble the Koreans on account of their hair, dark eyes and small noses.58 Meanwhile, the Portuguese missionary Luis Frois (1532-97) declared, "In their culture, deportment, and manners" the Japanese excelled Europeans "in so many ways that one is ashamed to tell about it." 51 Organtino Gnecchi (1530-1609), a Genoan priest, wrote in 1577 that It must be understood that these people are in no sense barbarous. Excluding the advantage of religion, we ourselves in comparison with them are most barbarous. I learn something from the Japanese every day and I am sure that in the whole universe there is no people so well gifted by Nature.52 Given the attitudes and views about race and skin color discussed above, this identification of the Japanese as a white people had major implications. While Portuguese kings pointedly condemned discrimi- nation against non-white, Christianized peoples in the colonies, and while Portuguese readily mixed with non-European peoples, many linked dark skins to moral and intellectual failings. The Italian Alessandro Valignano, who was in Japan throughout much of the period between 1579 and 1603, regarded (East) Indians and other "dusky races" as "very stupid and vicious, and of the basest spirits," and linked the fact that they were "blacks" to their putative shortcomings as Christian converts. On the other hand, he associated Japanese converts' positive qualities with their whiteness: Withal there is this difference between the Indian and Japanese Christians, which in itself proves that there really is no room for comparison between them, for each of the former was converted from some individual ulterior motive, and since they are blacks, and of small sense, they are subsequently very difficult to improve and turn into good Christians; whereas the Japanese usually become converted, not on some whimsical ulterior motive... but only in obedience to their lord's command; and since they are white and of good under- standing and behavior, and greatly given to outward show, they readily frequent the churches and sermons, and when they are instructed they become very good Christians... [emphasis added]. Few achievements were more likely to capture western attention than victory in battle, and when the small, quaint nation of Japan defeated Chinese forces in Korea in 1895, thereby acquiring the island of Taiwan and the beginnings of a colonial empire, western powers were much impressed. In 1900 Japanese forces provided the bulk of an allied force rescuing western diplomats in Beijing during the Boxer rebellion; they received high marks for their discipline and professionalism. The U.K. entered into a naval alliance by treaty in 1902. By 1905, when the Japanese navy destroyed the Baltic Fleet and defeated the Russian Empire, it was apparent that Japan was no ordinary "oriental" nation. Their difference had to be understood racially; to some westerners, the country's feats obviously indicated a white component in the Japanese gene pool. After the Russo-Japanese War, the American scholar William Elliot Griffis (1848-1928) declared the Japanese the most "un- Mongoloid" people in Asia, and suggested they had much "A---- blood in their veins."

Share Pin Download More

wojak comics soyjak femjak wmaf joão rodrigues luís fróis gaspar da cruz marco polo garcía de escalante alvarado history memes spaniards

Origin Entry: History Memes

File type: png

Resolution: (1114px x 1096px)

File size: 1.12 MB

I WALK INTO A TAVERN I CAN'T SEE A THING SO I'LL OPEN THIS ONE

Online Updates Ceausu Cristian

View All 20,399 Images

Moar:

Mysterious horse

Trojans after they successfully fend off Greek siege and mysterious benefactor gifts them a wooden horse:

Pin

Clever

Frank Mahan coming up with the name "Basketball" in 1892: (There was a basket & ball at the time)

Pin

There was no fiddle

made with mematic They don't know Nero didn't play the fiddle when Rome burned

Pin

About that

"Oh so you have husband! What is his name?" Sappho: -Biggus, Biggus D: kus

Pin

No credit

"Christopher Columbus discovered america in 1492" The viking Leif Erikson discovering it in 1002:

Pin

Again?

B-R How many times do we have to teach you this lessongeld mant U.S.S. Enterprise

Pin

Not invited

World War I and World War II: *are happening* Switzerland: da fk they doin ova der

Pin

Why not?

Use over time for: he ai Mentions 1800 1850 1900 1800 yeah 1950 Does anyone else wanna clap some anime cheeks? 2010

Pin

Yep

King Phillip of France when he is out of money because of the war against the flems: Modern problems require modern solutions KAPWING

Pin

Oddly specific

Jewish Law Codes Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness... The Salic Law If any person strike another on the head so that the brain appears, and the three bones which lie above the brain shall project, he shall be sentenced to 1200 denars, which make 30 shillings. But if it shall have been between the ribs or in the stomach, so that the wound appears and reaches to the entrails, he shall be sentenced to 1200 denars-which make 30 shillings- besides five shillings for the physician's pay.

Pin

Gasp

Welcome O GOO To LLL LAGOON GOO LAG

Pin

...

The Arab slave trade Wasn't so bad They captured. five percent of the population of Cornwall France and Spain had to repeatedly pay larges amounts to free their subjects The Omanis created a new language just to be able to communicate with the large amount of slaves they brought 13-20 million people were captured and sold Eikaza The armies of the North African sultanates was made up of captured slaves It ended in the 1980's ER made with mematic

Pin

+21

History Memes - European missionaries on Japanese people and Japanese women

PROTIP: Press the ← and → keys to navigate the gallery, 'g' to view the gallery, or 'r' to view a random image.

The Spaniards, like the Portuguese, regarded the Japanese as "white," and associated their whiteness with comeliness. "The inhabitants of these islands are good-looking, white, and bearded ." wrote the Spaniard Garcia de Escalante Alvarado in 1548.76 The Spanish merchant Bernadino de Avila Girón wrote in 1600 that the Japanese "are well-built and for the most part have short, flat noses, albeit there are many people with goodly features, aquiline noses and large eyes...." The Chinese, in contrast, had been depicted by Caspar da Cruz as "ill- featured, having small eyes, and their faces and noses flat, and ... beardless...." 78 "77 If the Japanese were a white people, their women were particularly white. Garcia de Escalante Alvarado declared that "... the women have mostly very white complexions and are very beautiful." "9 Avila Girón was perhaps most enthusiastic about the whiteness and beauty of Japanese women, which indeed he found required less cosmetic assistance than the pulchritude of western women. The women are white and usually of good appearance; indeed, many are extremely comely and graceful ... The women use neither perfume nor oil on their faces, neither do they use those filthy things which the women of our country are wont to employ. For indeed there are [Spanish] women who possess more bottles, phials and jugs of cosmetics than any apothecary, yet for all that they do not have a better complexion than the Japanese woman who merely washes her face in water from any pond. But it is true that as a mark of honor married women are accustomed to putting on a little powder dissolved in water (although it is not really necessary) and a touch of color on their lips.... 80 Like Portuguese commentators, Avila Girón praised the Japanese woman's virtues, suggesting, indeed, that as a group, these "white" women might be the very best people in the world. The Japanese were not always viewed as honorary Europeans or long- estranged kin, however. Many accounts emphasize their uniqueness and contrariety. Frois penned many distichs emphasizing how opposite the Japanese were from westerners in their eating, clothing, education, battle tactics, architecture, and various habits.54 Yet they were eminently civilized and they were white in a period which, as Donald Lach has noted, "the whitest peoples" encountered by an expanding Europe "generally met European standards," and were even regarded as "superior in some regards...." 55 Reports on Japan, as early as that of Marco Polo, noted the pale coloration of the inhabitants. The people of "Cipangu," wrote the Venetian, "are white, civilized, and well-favored," and the first European visitors to the country in the sixteenth century uniformly made the same observation.56 The Florentine Francesco Carletti (b. 1572) recalled that the women he had met in Japan between 1597 and 1598 had been "moderately pretty, with a rather pale complexion." 57 "The Japanese are white," wrote the Portuguese Jesuit João Rodrigues (1561-1633) ... although not excessively pale as the northern nations but just moderately so. They have goodly, somewhat round features, and as regards facial appearance they look like the genuine Chinese of the interior, not those of Canton; they also resemble the Koreans on account of their hair, dark eyes and small noses.58 Meanwhile, the Portuguese missionary Luis Frois (1532-97) declared, "In their culture, deportment, and manners" the Japanese excelled Europeans "in so many ways that one is ashamed to tell about it." 51 Organtino Gnecchi (1530-1609), a Genoan priest, wrote in 1577 that It must be understood that these people are in no sense barbarous. Excluding the advantage of religion, we ourselves in comparison with them are most barbarous. I learn something from the Japanese every day and I am sure that in the whole universe there is no people so well gifted by Nature.52 Given the attitudes and views about race and skin color discussed above, this identification of the Japanese as a white people had major implications. While Portuguese kings pointedly condemned discrimi- nation against non-white, Christianized peoples in the colonies, and while Portuguese readily mixed with non-European peoples, many linked dark skins to moral and intellectual failings. The Italian Alessandro Valignano, who was in Japan throughout much of the period between 1579 and 1603, regarded (East) Indians and other "dusky races" as "very stupid and vicious, and of the basest spirits," and linked the fact that they were "blacks" to their putative shortcomings as Christian converts. On the other hand, he associated Japanese converts' positive qualities with their whiteness: Withal there is this difference between the Indian and Japanese Christians, which in itself proves that there really is no room for comparison between them, for each of the former was converted from some individual ulterior motive, and since they are blacks, and of small sense, they are subsequently very difficult to improve and turn into good Christians; whereas the Japanese usually become converted, not on some whimsical ulterior motive... but only in obedience to their lord's command; and since they are white and of good under- standing and behavior, and greatly given to outward show, they readily frequent the churches and sermons, and when they are instructed they become very good Christians... [emphasis added]. Few achievements were more likely to capture western attention than victory in battle, and when the small, quaint nation of Japan defeated Chinese forces in Korea in 1895, thereby acquiring the island of Taiwan and the beginnings of a colonial empire, western powers were much impressed. In 1900 Japanese forces provided the bulk of an allied force rescuing western diplomats in Beijing during the Boxer rebellion; they received high marks for their discipline and professionalism. The U.K. entered into a naval alliance by treaty in 1902. By 1905, when the Japanese navy destroyed the Baltic Fleet and defeated the Russian Empire, it was apparent that Japan was no ordinary "oriental" nation. Their difference had to be understood racially; to some westerners, the country's feats obviously indicated a white component in the Japanese gene pool. After the Russo-Japanese War, the American scholar William Elliot Griffis (1848-1928) declared the Japanese the most "un- Mongoloid" people in Asia, and suggested they had much "A---- blood in their veins."

View Gallery Random Image

+ Add a Comment

Comments (0)

There are no comments currently available.

Display Comments

Image Details

7,346 views (18 from today)

Uploaded Jun 24, 2023 at 03:39PM EDT

Origin Entry

Source

Tags

Claim Authorship Edit History

About the Uploader

BringBackPomf

Archivist & Commentator & Media Bus Boy

Textile Embed

!https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/611/453/b0f.png!

Today's Top Image Galleries

My Little Pony characters

My Little Pony

Two edits of JD Vance

J.D. Vance Face Edits

Invincible War OCs examples.

Invincible War OCs

Minecraft