PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoDamn these industrial imperialist island nationslemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down18
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minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down2·3 months ago First to industrialize The Japanese were dumbstruck when the Dutch showed them machinery. They had been handpicking rice and painting lewd pictures of octopi up until that point.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·edit-23 months agoFirst to industrialize amongst their neighbors. And mechanization of rice harvesting is a very late invention. As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
minus-squareTooManyFoods@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoSome of them still do the second one. And it may have rubbed of on everyone else
The Japanese were dumbstruck when the Dutch showed them machinery. They had been handpicking rice and painting lewd pictures of octopi up until that point.
First to industrialize amongst their neighbors. And mechanization of rice harvesting is a very late invention.
As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
Some of them still do the second one. And it may have rubbed of on everyone else