Culture Shock in Shogun (& Why We Now Live in a ‘One World Culture’)

Eddie Ejjbair
3 min readMay 19, 2024

One of the central themes of the new TV series, Shogun, is the culture shock experienced by Brit John Blackthorne in feudal Japan. One scene in particular (embedded below) shows Blackthorne truly confused by the customs after his gardener is sentenced to death over a misunderstanding.

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Eddie Ejjbair

‘Gradually it’s become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: a personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’