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Damn these industrial imperialist island nations (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] aeronmelon 96 points 2 months ago (13 children)

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.

[โ€“] BrokenGlepnir 19 points 2 months ago

Some of them still do the second one. And it may have rubbed of on everyone else

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