(Near Imperial Palace and Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo)"Thou Shalt not Commit Adultery"
After the Civil War in 1860's passing through the Great Depression Era in 1930's and the Second World War and the Cold War with the Vietnam War from 1940's to 1980's, the United States of America has been growing being supported by many immigrants from all over the world.
But, the base of the people's spiritual power is rooted in emancipated African Americans after the South-North Over-Slavery War.
SECTION I: American History
Louis[1] Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901[2] – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo[3] or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong
Louis Armstrong smiled an unbelievably cheerfully big smile, but he looked like crying inside.
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
Mr. Ali excited many Japanese people decades ago as the most sophisticated and strongest American boxer. His refusal to do military service and his conversion to Islam also created complicated ripples on Japanese views on America. It is hard to comprehend the historical implication that Mr. Ali once shared glorious time with Louis Armstrong, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., looking back from the present era of President Mr. Barack Obama.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not excite the Japanese but was highly acknowledged as a symbol of African American movement toward equality and justice amid hostility under human masks of European Americans.
Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President George W. Bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
When the Persian Gulf Crisis erupted in 1990, Mr. Powell was the Joint Chief of Staff. It was an extreme surprise for me that an African American general could be appointed to the highest military position in the United States Defense regime. Indeed, Mr. George H.W. Bush, a veteran on the Pacific Stage of WWII, looks like having been something to authorize Mr. Powell.
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is a professor, diplomat, author, and national security expert. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
If Ms. Rice should visit Japan, she would be treated as a big star, I bet. Most of European American actresses would be however against a perspective that such a girl as Ms. Rice could be an actress in the U.S. Anyway, Ms. Rice and Princess Diana are two major female players lionized by the global media in this decade or so.
And the history is going on with you, gentlemen, on the American Continent...
SECTION II: Divorce without Adultery?
If you are raised in an ordinary family, you will assume that everybody is raised in a normal family environment.
But, if a half of your generation has a biased family background, you had better change your philosophy on life and refer to the Bible.
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Divorce Rates
"14% of white women who married in the 1940s eventually divorced. A single generation later, almost 50 percent of those that married in the late sixties and early seventies have already divorced. ... Between 1970 and 1992, the proportion of babies born outside of marriage leaped from 11% to 30%."
Amara Bachu, Fertility of American Women: June 1994 (Washington D.C.: Bureau of the Census, September 1995), xix, Table K. Cited on page5 of The Abolition of Marriage, by Maggie Gallagher
US Per capita divorce rates 1990-2002:
[1950, 0.26%
1971, 0.37%
1981, 0.53%]
1991, 0.47%
1992, 0.48%
1993, 0.46%...[US Marriage rate: 0.90%]
1994, 0.46%...[0.91%]
1995, 0.46%...[0.89%]
1995, 0.43%...[0.88%]
1997, 0.43%...[0.89%]
1998, 0.42%...[0.83%]
1999, 0.41%...[0.86%]
2000, 0.41%...[0.85%]
2001, 0.40%...[0.82%]
2002, 0.38%
[0.38% means 3.8 per 1,000 people;
0.23% for Japan in 2002 (the marriage rate 0.64% in 2001)
- EEE Reporter -]
http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html#anchor1223885
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In summary, almost one in two of newly married couples in the U.S. can be regarded as destined to divorce.
(Almost one in three of newly married couple in Japan might be to divorce.)
In the above context, the American Civilization could be more a threat to mankind than Islam is, even if Muslims should start to globally promulgate their faith again, claiming their superiority over the Christianity like 1,000 years ago or so.
SECTION III: California
(To be continued...)
(It is "Je suis heureux." Does a Parisienne sing this and how?
http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/Je%20suis%20heureux%20(Claude%20Steben).kar.mid
Source: http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/abc.htm)
Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.