国家の品格（新潮新書）

by 藤原 正彦

「品格」で流行語大賞も受賞した大ベストセラー。虫の音が美しいと思う心、説明無用「駄目なものは駄目」、「卑怯」はいけない――日本人は生まれながらにして善徳や品性を持っている。国際化という名のアメリカ化に踊らされてきた日本人は、この誇るべき「国柄」を長らく忘れてきてしまった。いま日本に必要なのは何か？　それは論理よりも情緒、英語よりも国語、民主主義よりも武士道精神であり、「国家の品格」を取り戻すことである！　すべての日本人に誇りと自信を与える画期的日本論。

Genres: Japanese Literature

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 20, 2005

Reviews

[Moazbellah · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was an eye-opeing experience to read about how the author sees Japan today have lost most of the good traits of bushido, and how such cultural changes affected the "dignity" of a nation. the author analyses many factors that contributed to such bad changes, and also points out some observations on what makes people whole when they accept their culture. this book can arguablly be discriminative and biased toward the Japanese, however Ii gave me a chance to understand some the Japanese culture aspects I used to ponder about, like how they integrate new and foregin customs and concepts and make something original or so to speak out of it.