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The Japanese is a people who has perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

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The Japanese is not, as they see themselves, 'heirs' to the past. Rather they are 'debtors' to it.

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The Japanese is a people with a genius for doing anything they set out to do as a matter of national decision.

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The Japanese is superior to whites, as evidenced by a higher per capita income, greater family stability, greater education levels, and a high IQ, while blacks are inferior on all accounts.

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The Japanese is a modular people: the language, the thought itself tends to modular forms: the cliche is respected, the ritual is observed; most of the arts – Japanese dance, the martial arts – are taught in the form of modules called kata.

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The Japanese is a modular people: the tatami mats, the fusuma doors, the shoji windows, the amado shutters are of invariable proportion, built to fit every home. And this module-mindedness continues even today with ferro-concrete or pre-cast plastic lowered into place, each one identical.