In the 1870s, five Japanese girls (one only seven years old!) were sent to the United States to get American educations and bring back what they learned to Japan
This came up in a class I took in college, although not in any particular depth. I will have to check out this book!
I was intrigued to learn that people have been complaining that Christmas has lost touch with its earlier, pious roots, and now revolves around secular merry-making, essentially since Christmas was a thing.
I'm always tickled by proof that people have, throughout history, been complaining about the exact same things. I'm obsessed with this article from the 1930s about how an editorial from the 1800s made the exact same arguments about Girls These Days as people did in the 30s, and wouldn't you know it, it's a complaint that hasn't still died out, in vibe if not in content.
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Date: 2020-12-23 05:27 pm (UTC)This came up in a class I took in college, although not in any particular depth. I will have to check out this book!
I was intrigued to learn that people have been complaining that Christmas has lost touch with its earlier, pious roots, and now revolves around secular merry-making, essentially since Christmas was a thing.
I'm always tickled by proof that people have, throughout history, been complaining about the exact same things. I'm obsessed with this article from the 1930s about how an editorial from the 1800s made the exact same arguments about Girls These Days as people did in the 30s, and wouldn't you know it, it's a complaint that hasn't still died out, in vibe if not in content.