People of the Minyusha (Friends of the Nation) including Soho TOKUTOMI, who insisted on Heimin Shugi (commoner-ism), advocated the 'Europeanization from below' by criticizing 'Aristocratic Europeanism' for being nonproductive.
平民主義を唱える民友社の徳富蘇峰らは「貴族的欧化主義」では何も生み出さないと批判して「下からの欧化」を唱えた。