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Departure from Europeanism and Return to Japaneseization Theory --- Departure from Europeanism --- Confrontational Structure

Confrontational Structure

An adversarial structure is a structurally antagonistic relationship between two or more ideas, principles, or organizations based on them. Underlying the confrontational structure are dualistic ideas such as material and spirit, good and evil, and black and white. When conflict structure intensifies, it may develop into infighting, riots, or even war. Conflict structures sometimes arise from misunderstandings about the other party and oneself.

Confrontational Structure

Confrontational structures are sometimes deliberately instigated by politicians and others. To persuade the populace to perceive something as hostile and to attack it. By doing so, they try to garner support from the public or distract the public from the essential issues.
Politicians often deliberately fan the antagonism to gain popularity. Even if one does not overtly provoke conflict by exposing hatred and loathing, it is often used as a typical political means to indirectly impress a hostile existence and make the people hate it.
We must be wary of those who try to foment the structure of opposition, who try to fit the phenomenon of things into the structure of opposition. Simplifying things and making things easier to understand sounds good, but in many cases this is an act of diverting attention from the essential issues, fostering misunderstandings, and making people attack something as an enemy.


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