On the other hand, there is also an opinion that the Japanese government introduced a Europeanization policy (leave Asia, enter Europe) into its culture and its natural features on an such an unprecedented scale due to a backlash against its extended seclusionism, that it layed a foundation for the people of Japan to have an inferior complex to the Caucasian that remains even today.
その一方で長期に渡る鎖国の反動からか文化・風土面においても世界的に類を見ない規模の欧化政策（脱亜入欧）を行い、現代に至るまでの日本人における白人コンプレックスの礎となったと考える者もいる。