When I was living in Boston and driving a car, I oftentimes encountered cars from New Hampshire. I could see their number plates when I was driving a car behind them. I noticed that number plates registered in New Hampshire had a state motto of New Hampshire. It goes like this, "Live Free or Die".
According to Wikipedia,
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"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it speaks to an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos.
The phrase comes from a toast written by General John Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, on July 31, 1809. Poor health forced Stark to decline an invitation to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington. Instead, he sent his toast by letter: Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.
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Personally, I love to live free very much. In other words, I hate being controlled by someone. That's the reason why I can make friends with American people in a second. We share the same feeling. The Constitution of the United States is all about freedom. It is the institutionalization of freedom. Democracy is a set of principles and practices that protect human freedom.
It seems that I am a bit different from fellow Japanese. Japanese people are organized people. They love to be organized. They love to belong to something. They oftentimes suppress their own feeling to maintain an order of organization.
Japanese people don't even know they are controlled by some companies who determine contents of information included in news programs. Information Japanese people receive on national security is very much limited. For example, information on China's military strategy, i.e., Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) and US military strategy against China. i.e., AirSea Battle are hardly reported on media in Japan although they are publicly available in the United States. Actually, the US government and US think tanks published many reports on A2AD and AirSea Battle.
A motto of most Japanese people is "Mizaru, Iwazaru, Kikazaru (see not, speak not, hear not)". Japanese people are a coward. They would live being controlled rather than die. Such people will never know the meaning of freedom. Such people will never know the meaning of democracy,
But, I believe in human nature that seeks for freedom. I believe that some Japanese people are different from the majority of Japanese people. These milk of Japanese people would work as a vanguard of democracy. They would reveal who control contents of information included in news programs. I believe that, eventually, most Japanese people would follow the vanguard and change gradually and slowly. In the long run, most Japanese people would find a new way of life which is totally different from the traditional way of Japanese life.
Thank you.
According to Wikipedia,
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"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it speaks to an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos.
The phrase comes from a toast written by General John Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, on July 31, 1809. Poor health forced Stark to decline an invitation to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington. Instead, he sent his toast by letter: Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.
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Personally, I love to live free very much. In other words, I hate being controlled by someone. That's the reason why I can make friends with American people in a second. We share the same feeling. The Constitution of the United States is all about freedom. It is the institutionalization of freedom. Democracy is a set of principles and practices that protect human freedom.
It seems that I am a bit different from fellow Japanese. Japanese people are organized people. They love to be organized. They love to belong to something. They oftentimes suppress their own feeling to maintain an order of organization.
Japanese people don't even know they are controlled by some companies who determine contents of information included in news programs. Information Japanese people receive on national security is very much limited. For example, information on China's military strategy, i.e., Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) and US military strategy against China. i.e., AirSea Battle are hardly reported on media in Japan although they are publicly available in the United States. Actually, the US government and US think tanks published many reports on A2AD and AirSea Battle.
A motto of most Japanese people is "Mizaru, Iwazaru, Kikazaru (see not, speak not, hear not)". Japanese people are a coward. They would live being controlled rather than die. Such people will never know the meaning of freedom. Such people will never know the meaning of democracy,
But, I believe in human nature that seeks for freedom. I believe that some Japanese people are different from the majority of Japanese people. These milk of Japanese people would work as a vanguard of democracy. They would reveal who control contents of information included in news programs. I believe that, eventually, most Japanese people would follow the vanguard and change gradually and slowly. In the long run, most Japanese people would find a new way of life which is totally different from the traditional way of Japanese life.
Thank you.
