Yet, as you may know, the wife does not criticise her husband because she dislikes him, but because she truly loves him and tries to encourage him to improve himself.
What is true of the wife’s attitude toward her husband is also true of that of the citizen toward his fatherland. We should cast the same warm but, at the same time, sharp glance at our country.
To make his country better, the good citizen tells it its faults all the more for his love toward it.
The much more dangerous man than the critic is the empty “patriot” (as he regards himself) who often likes to indulge in self-congratulation.
To me, who am an American, Japanese people often seem to fail to understand this point of view．
What is true of the wife’s attitude toward her husband is also true of that of the citizen toward his fatherland. We should cast the same warm but, at the same time, sharp glance at our country.
To make his country better, the good citizen tells it its faults all the more for his love toward it.
The much more dangerous man than the critic is the empty “patriot” (as he regards himself) who often likes to indulge in self-congratulation.
To me, who am an American, Japanese people often seem to fail to understand this point of view．