On The Japonic The Impetus, The Trait And The Effect In The Assimilating Foreign Cultures

Japan is a model of obtaining the success through absorbing the external advanced culture on a large scale. Japan is good at assimilating and digesting external culture extremely, which has its profound material root, the national root and the thought root. First, isolated situation, narrow and small territory, deficient resources, the frequent happening of natural disaster, causes the Japanese nation's need between the environment contradiction is very sharp, which fires up the nation's intensely survival consciousness, and stimulates the Japanese nation's strong desire to enhance the ability against nature; Second, the character of multi-nationlities and the thinking mode of the multi-cultures, has also paved the way for the japonica to absorb external culture; Third, the sea nation's opening character makes Japan dare with the aid of the advanced culture to promote national culture, and to enhance nation competitive ability. All these are the impetus which the japonica dares to absorb the external culture. Therefore, in the different time, Japan has absorbed the essence of the world's culture greedily, and has became more and more stronger. However, in the face of the large-scale external culture's importing, Japan has still maintained its unique national trait and spirit, because the Japan had selected foreign cultures according to its own nation's standards. The unique trait of the japonica——pragmatism thought, plays an important role in the course of assimilating different cultures, and influences the evolution of Japanese culture greatly. Regarding the Japanese basic cultures as the reference system, such as the emperor of Japan, Shintoism and so on; taking"usefulness"as a cultural value judgement and decision criteria; distorting foreign cultures by its own value standards. Using the ways of imitation and duplication, intergration and innovation, the official and civilian , and all levels , the japonica assimilates foreign cultures ,in order to pursue advanced countries . This trait enables Japan to rank among the world's ultimate power.