You will have to forgive a piece that is not at all about politics and the current cultural contretemps of modern American society. Instead, I want to use these words to recommend as forcefully as possible a television show that you should be watching. But first, you must have a history lesson.
In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan discovered what became known as the Strait of Magellan, a passage around South America that spared ships the treacherous open waters of the Atlanta, Pacific and Antarctic waters. The Spanish intended to keep it a secret. Concurrently, Spain and Portugal divided the world in half, intent on shutting out the Dutch, English and others from global colonial development.
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Among the lands discovered was Japan, to which the Portuguese sent missionaries and began a campaign both of Catholicizing the island nation and also plundering it. The Spanish headed to the new world, and the Portuguese went to the outer edges of the old world.
As the Netherlands entered war with Spain and sought freedom and Protestantism, belligerences expanded and rumors spread of a land from which the Portuguese were gaining wealth. The Dutch went out in search of it, having gathered intelligence about the Strait of Magellan and a path around the new world back into the old.
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