What is the secret behind the success of these two islands?

What is the secret behind the success of these two islands?

>islands
There you go.
The answer is "being conquered by people who spoke a Germanic language."

>UK
>an island

As for Japan, it's conquered by people from Korean peninsula. They brought civilization like letters, rice, horses and steels. That's the secret.

UK - expansion and colonization.

Japan - isolationism.

As you can see those are to opposite directions, but in the current economic conditions isolationism is almost impossible and there's no more room for expansion and colonization, except outer space.

the channel isnt a big deal until it is

Norman is a Romance language, mate.

they're islands so nautical engineering is second nature to them.

also there's a natural barrier separating them from their dick-ass neighbors

The same goes with Roman Empire, Alps worked great againts other european civilizations.

Lucky storms.

England/Britain

>Bottom up "constitution"
>Common law
>Magna Carta
>Relative freedom (compared to continent)
>Developed its own national religion and national destiny
>Protestant "providence"
>Constitutional monarchy
>Island and so developed the best navy in Europe
>Island and so a nation of merchants and explorers
>Scientific Revolution
>Lots of coal..
>Invented and applied economics in the 18th century
>Industrial Revolution
>Almost a total monopoly in world trade
>Naturally conservative, flexible parliamentary democracy allowed reform in the 19th century to prevent revolution

The British Empire, all things considered, was one of the greatest Empires in the world if you consider the positive influence it had on the world. The French, much less, it was really localized in Europe and limited to Napoleon.

Yeah. Talk about Kamikaze, huh?

Go to .

Copying everything from their more sophisticated continental mainland frenemies nearby. :^)

Little Karakuni peninsular people need to remind which empire was they had pledged allegiance to before cooked by Tang-Ching-Chang-Chongs.

But Japan was never good

To be raped by the muslims and the commies like eurasian mainlands, is ever good you said? lol

As far as the UK is concerned:

Protestant Reformation
Scottish Enlightenment
Being an island

The British empire was a worthless heap of neglected territories of desert and jungle which lasted only a century.

>that pic
>two islands
Either you're blind or mathematics isn't your strong suit.

Watch out, watch out, we have an angry sperg here.

Don't know what's so controversial about the Yayoi.

If proto Japonic was spoken on the Korean peninsula than that raises the possibility that Jin/Sam Han adopted Koreanic from Buyeo influence.

The British Isles were subdued multiple times

Yeah. Not that guy, though I always thought Britain and Japan were similar though. They're both island chain countries. Japan has about 4 to 5 main islands and many smaller ones while Britain has about 2 main islands and many smaller ones. I dunno too much about land mass comparisons though.

I dunno, at the start it seems like anyone that was strong enough to take on the Romans military could walk over them.
Even the trade-niggers in Tunis went through the Alps to take on the Romans.

Japan has a much larger area than the British Isles, but a lot of that is mountains.

Goguryeo is comming to conquer rest of the peninsula. Remove jap obstacles!
And saying "Korea (Koryeo) teaches to Japan (Nippon)."

--WE WUZ KINGZ HAMNIDA

Funny that you mention Goguryeo. Goguryeo venerated Jizi but modern day Koreans reject his historicity.

Korean "WE WUZ" is Gojoseon: not only did it originate outside the Korean peninsula but there's no evidence that Koreanic was ever spoken in that region.

really got their shit together after 1066 and became world masters

FUCKING HWAN FAGS GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY PLANET
t. Finland

Except that time they got conquered by the Dutch.

>there's no more room for expansion and colonization, except outer space.

>tfw born too soon for the colonization of mars/the asteroid belts
>Born way too soon to declare revolution!

What's more autistic, Victorian stiff-upper-lip or Japanese Bushido?

Victorians had a sense of humour. Also it created some GOAT poetry.

There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -
Ten to make and the match to win --
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,
But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"

The sand of the desert is sodden red, --
Red with the wreck of a square that broke; --
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of schoolboy rallies the ranks,
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"

This is the word that year by year
While in her place the School is set
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget.
This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life like a torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind --
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"

Sir Henry Newbolt

>t. country that never built an empire

>Wake up one morning
>OP's pic is all that exists on an empty ocean world.
>Maybe add Newfoundland and New Zealand for a little bit more Anglo population, but just that
>What happens?

French genes
San Goku genes

>Japan: Isolationism. Absolutely wrong. Exactly the opposite. Japan became powerful because it was able to industrialize within about a 20 year period after the arrival of Industrialized powers, and institute the Meiji Reforms, which rapidly brought Japan up to Western Europeans Economic and Political standards. They instituted an emperor, a bourgeoisie industrial class, and adopted imperialism. They completely re-oriented their society around industrial a manufacturing base and began to establish a positive balance of trade with China and Southeast Asia.

They were able to accomplish this because they had a history of imitating superior cultures: they had based most of their civilization off of Chinese society. This, combined with the military - oriented society developed due to fierce competition between rival Daimyos allowed Japan to quickly carve out imperial possessions in the early 20th century.

Tl;dr: Japan quickly copied the west after they realized they would get fucked over if they didnt.

Glorious Nippon Steel and The Eternal Chav

Has been and always will be the outsider of the European continent. It's isolation allows it to be unique and innovative - it allowed the rise of the Protestant Reformation, and it also birthed a lot of great thinkers along the way. The British also understood the importance of naval control, and that allowed them to stay in power for a while.

I can hardly think of anything more stupid to say.

It doesn't count if you literally let that happen, with an open invitation in letter form.

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>Italy
>Island

Why not?

It's Japan.

Victorian England and Meji Japan was a match made in heaven. Can't believe it wasn't jumped on.

Because the parliament sent William a letter and said 'hey march in. If you speak our language and respect our authority as parliament and convert to our form of Christianity, you can be the figurehead. Just as long as we don't have a Catholic king.' And so they did. And the English army didn't put up any fight. That's why it's called the Bloodless Revolution. The Glorious Revolution wasn't an invasion because the point was to have the political status quo maintained. The same people that had control kept control under the thinly veiled pretense of an invasion as the justification.

A professor once put it up there with the American Revolution as the most un-political revolution ever, giving that most things stayed exactly the same. Parliamentarianism 4 evz, yo.

TIL the Trojans won the Trojan war.

Bunch of tea-drinking, sexually repressed pedos who portray themselves as quaint and civilised but are responsible for large scale suffering and brutality at the behest of empire

reminder that this is the same guy that will scream of the wonders of this "empire" in africa that built a mud hut and invented absolutely nothing and then tell you that this empire was greater than the british empire

A lack of natural resources drove their inhabitants to conquest and having large civilized lands next door helped.

better question is , what if rome never conquered UK.