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\"\"My First Impression of Foreigners.<\/em><\/h5>\n

(Transcribed by Stephen Hu,\u00a0Camille Romano, Jin D. Sebastian, and Aishwarya Sridhar)<\/p>\n

As nearly all of the higher class in this country, that is, chiefly Samurais, had been educated in the Chinese style in which system they learned that the Chinese and the Japanese were the most highly civilized nations, and all other foreign nations were barbarians or savages; for this was the case about two thousand years ago. Since they did not know how to improve their own mistakes, they have retained the impressions which they were taught by their ancestors, till a few years ago. While I was young, that is about ten or eleven years old, as nearly all men and women who surrounded me were among three obstinate people, any first impression was like them, and I also heard from them that the foreigners were very wild and ferocious like brute. Then I did not know the distinction between English, French, Russians, etc, but I understand all of them to be only one tribe to which the term, Ijin, which means \u201cdifferent from human being,\u201d was applied. When I saw a picture, which represented foreigners, I thought that they were really savages, as their dress, complexion, hairs, seemed very curious, and great many other things. At the same time I heard that they could not bend their knees, inasmuch as they sat on chairs. Therefore, we disliked to enter into intimate friendship with such nations, although they were always contriving to do so.<\/p>\n

Matsui<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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