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How can we make the dominant culture of the island of Great Britian into an analogue to that of pre-20th Century Japan- a tightly isolationistic, somewhat xenophobic culture with a unique and idiosyncratic set of social and cultural rules.

You could argue that English culture is already somewhat like this but I'm looking for ways to intensify it.

No conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans might be a good starting point. At the same time have the Saxons absorb the feudal system of the Normans and you might get a strictly class-based society with the huscarls serving as a samurai analogue.
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