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神道は辞めるとかそういうもんじゃないんですよ 日本的文化の環境に育った人はすでに神道を信仰する人なんですよ だから切り離せるものではないんです

Yesterday I ran the first Britain & Japan ask me anything, and it was a huge success! 🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵 I loved getting personal questions and connecting with Japanese X followers on a deeper level. I’ll be running these every Wednesday and Saturday night. Would you support this?

Every country on Earth armed their police. Gave them military uniforms. Made them answer to the state. Except one. In 1829, Britain created the first police force in history that carried no weapons. Wore civilian clothes. And answered to the people, not the government. Before that, London had no police force at all. It was the largest city in the world. Over 1.5 million people. And the best they had was a handful of night watchmen who were famously old and frequently asleep. Then there were the thief-takers. Bounty hunters paid per conviction. Many of them were criminals themselves. The most notorious, Jonathan Wild, ran a criminal empire while claiming rewards for catching the very thieves he controlled. The Bow Street Runners were the closest thing London had to real law enforcement. Established in 1749 by the magistrate Henry Fielding. But there were never more than a few dozen of them. For a city of millions. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel proposed something no country had ever attempted. A civilian police force. Accountable to the public, not the state. Not soldiers. Unarmed. They wore dark blue tailcoats instead of military red. That was deliberate. The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 created the force. One thousand officers began their first patrols on 29 September 1829. People called them Bobbies. After Bobby Peel. The name stuck for 200 years. Two commissioners wrote the founding principles. Colonel Charles Rowan, a Waterloo veteran. And Richard Mayne, a barrister. Nine principles. The most radical idea in the history of policing. Principle Seven: "The police are the public and the public are the police. The police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen." Not above you. Not against you. One of you. No other country on Earth had ever said that. In France, the Gendarmerie nationale had existed since 1791. Military police. Armed. Uniformed as soldiers. Serving the government, not the people. Most of the world copied France. Colonial police forces across every empire were built on the same model. Britain chose consent. For nearly 200 years, British police officers carried no firearms. Just a wooden truncheon, a rattle, and the trust of the people they served. That model spread to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and became the foundation of democratic policing worldwide. Most people in this country have absolutely no idea how rare that is. Or that it started here. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Westerners have a problem with respecting people's cultures throughout history.

Somali man: ”If you are kicking out Somalis, you have to kick out every one of us. I’m speaking for all of my African brothers and sisters. If you kick Somalis out, you have to kick out all of us. All of us, we all leave together.”