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is a country that embodies a technology without a message. It cannot engage in cultural imperialism because its message is nonverbal, crystalized instead in its social structure.

Johan Galtung believes that those norms did not emerge from recent military defeat but were buried more deeply in history. For him, Japan is a country that embodies 'a technology without a message.' Japan cannot engage in cultural imperialism, Galtung argues, because its message is nonverbal, crystalized instead in its social structure.

is whatever causes actuality to fall short of potentiality in people.

that which causes peoples' actual physical and mental realizations or accomplishments to fall short of their potential physical and mental realizations (168).

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