John Bull
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John Bull in a cartoon satirizing the white man's burden[1] | John Bull in Manpyeong during the Russo-Japanese War[2] | John Bull on a recruiting poster during World War I |
1. outline
John Bull.
It is a symbol that personifies Britain . A personification of a country, like Marianne in France or Uncle Sam in the United States . Usually a black or red coat with the Union Jack He is depicted as a large man wearing a vest and black top hat and holding a cane.
It is a symbol that personifies Britain . A personification of a country, like Marianne in France or Uncle Sam in the United States . Usually a black or red coat with the Union Jack He is depicted as a large man wearing a vest and black top hat and holding a cane.
2. history
The origins of John Bull first appeared in 1712 in a publicity piece "Law is a Bottomless Pit" produced by John Arbuthnot. Originally, it was intended to satirize Britain's indiscriminate and imperialistic expansion by comparing it to a stupid and reckless bull, but it gradually developed into a character symbolizing Britain's strength and its small but huge body. At that time , Britain influenced Asia through India, America through Canada, and Southeast Asia through Australia and Singapore through successful industrial revolution and aggressive expansion of influence while neighboring France went through the French Revolution and Napoleonic era . It has grown to become the most powerful country in name and reality, like the present United States.
The most symbolic food in the process was steak , but through the overwhelming economic power formed through perfect industrialization, beef , which was the exclusive property of the nobility, flowed into England from several countries including the United States beyond Ireland and Scotland. Through this, Britain purchased expensive beef through its overwhelming economic power and the efficiency of the Industrial Revolution, and British citizens who had accumulated capital through the process of the Industrial Revolution, including the bourgeois , were able to enjoy steak . It is also related to this that the word “Bull”, which means bull, was added to John Bull.
The most symbolic food in the process was steak , but through the overwhelming economic power formed through perfect industrialization, beef , which was the exclusive property of the nobility, flowed into England from several countries including the United States beyond Ireland and Scotland. Through this, Britain purchased expensive beef through its overwhelming economic power and the efficiency of the Industrial Revolution, and British citizens who had accumulated capital through the process of the Industrial Revolution, including the bourgeois , were able to enjoy steak . It is also related to this that the word “Bull”, which means bull, was added to John Bull.
3. Appearance in popular culture
It occasionally appears in alternative history-based popular culture, and there are cases where the 'spy who concealed his name' uses the pseudonym John Bull. Although it hides its identity, it means that Britain is influencing it openly. Although he is a spy, he mainly appears in political work, such as sponsoring independence activists, rather than assassination or sabotage.
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam : The John Bull Gundam, named after it, appears.
- Yunyeo Biography : Under the name of 'Uncle John', he is busy negotiating diplomatic agreements while traveling around the United States and the Federation. Uncle John's part is not quite as good as that of Yosif, but it's quite like a fairy tale.
- Korean War of Independence : An agent in British intelligence and a contact with the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Britain. His real name is Henry Smith . Judging from his taste as a writer, it is highly related.
- Muscle Man II : Jomble Man , whose name is taken from this, appears.
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