I'm saying your claim that "maintaining national values and tradition comes first' is completely ahistorical to the point of being "not even wrong". Let's take

I'm saying your claim that "maintaining national values and tradition comes first' is completely ahistorical to the point of being "not even wrong". Let's take the Meiji restoration for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration#Destruction_of_cultural_heritage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration#Destruction_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_tax_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_tax_riots