> It's not like Japanese ancestors from 1800s would recognize today's Japan, anyway. In 2003 I read an essay that said in part, "It was fascinating to learn th

> It's not like Japanese ancestors from 1800s would recognize today's Japan, anyway. In 2003 I read an essay that said in part, "It was fascinating to learn that the Chinese were visiting [Chinatown in] San Francisco to look at their own history. They saw the city as a snapshot of Chinese culture, pickled in time, whose residents preserved as much as possible the China of 1850, from which San Francisco had been populated. The visiting Chinese were fascinated by the antique dress, the quaint old customs, and the old-fashioned language. Our most vivid memory of the event was of the visitor who spoke some English remarking 'This little town is more Chinese than China is.'" (The essay was at the Anglicans Online Website but seems no longer to be there; I'd quoted it in a blog post, https://www.questioningchristian.com/2003/12/time_warps.html https://www.questioningchristian.com/2003/12/time_warps.html) EDIT: Thanks to @philipkglass, who found it on the Wayback Machine (see below); I'd looked there but didn't think to look where he did: https://web.archive.org/web/20041126091310/http://morgue.anglicansonline.org/031207/ https://web.archive.org/web/20041126091310/http://morgue.ang...