Week 3 Shinsa

The feudal system was a social control. What do social controls do?

• Maintain order and peace.

• Control peoples' social media.

• Force people to act a certain way.

• Made people obey their parents.

Why did the Japanese accept class distinctions?

• Confucian teachings emphasized duties and obligations to one another.

• The Christian faith encouraged obedience.

• Feudal traditions from Europe influenced Japan.

• Japanese valued individual power over group happiness.

What aspect of the Japanese worldview does the concept of goningumi (where lower class households were grouped and held collectively responsible) best represent?

• The Japanese worldview valued the collective responsibility of individuals to the group.

• The Japanese worldview valued the punishment of those in the lower classes.

• The Japanese worldview valued the ability for people to have much freedom within the feudal pyramid.

• The Japanese worldview thought the number five to be a lucky number.

How did traditional Japanese family structures represent Confucian ideas?

• Families were organized around filial piety, or devotion to parents.

• Families represented the Confucian saying "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others."

• Families were organized for protection.

• Families represented the five basic relationships of Confucianism.

The Southern Barbarians were:

• Traders from Portugal wanting to set up trading ports around the Indian Ocean.

• The Portuguese monarchy and their representative governments wanting dealings with Japan.

• People from islands south of Japan, war-like towards the Japanese.

• Christians from Europe wanting to bring Japanese people back to Europe.

What values did the Southern Barbarians have that the Japanese did not?

• The Southern Barbarians had been influenced by the Renaissance ideals of competition, the individual, and a more flexible social structure.

• The Southern Barbarians were focused on setting up colonies in Japan and valued its economic systems.

• The Southern Barbarians wanted to expand European culture and bring back Japanese culture with them.

• The Southern Barbarians wanted to go to war with Japan for its resources.

Why was the shogun upset by Christian missionaries' attempts to convert people to Catholicism in Japan?

• The Japanese valued loyalty to social ranks above them, such as daimyo, shogun, and Emperor, and the missionaries emphasized loyalty only to God.

• The Shinto religion emphasized spiritual guidance to their own leader.

• The Shinto religion borrowed practices from Buddhism and Confucianism, and the shogun was upset about this tradition being forgotten.

• Christianity had no ethical codes to guide decisions about right and wrong.

Collectivism is a Japanese value rooted in traditional beliefs. What does collectivism encourage?

• Generosity, kindness, and duty.
• Achievement, individual success, and self-reliance.
• Collaboration, competition, and communication.
• Courage, honesty, and determination.

If you went on a field trip to Japan, you would probably see students going to school dressed in uniforms. What does this reflect about traditional Japanese worldviews?

• Uniforms emphasize the fact that everyone belongs to a group, which creates order and harmony.
• Uniforms represent the Japanese value of beauty.
• Uniforms help people to conform, which helps them to hide from punishment if they do something wrong.
• Uniforms encourage people to forget who they are.

"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is a Japanese proverb that reflects which Japanese values?

• Respect and collectivism.

• Respect for the people at the top of society.
• The obligations between a lord and his samurai.
• The needs of the individual are valued over the needs of the group.