Sukunai wrote:Hmm, I like anime, I like it a lot.
About as much as I like models of tanks.
That said, Japan is of course where anime comes from. But, does it make you have an inordinant amount of obsession with wanting to go there?
I mean, myself I don't speak Japanese. I'd not be able to talk to anyone. I wouldn't be able to read anything, or watch anything.
I am not actually into sushi at all. In fact I don't like their diet at all. I suspect I would be very bored with my food intake.
Anything I might buy there, I can buy from my home if I am so damned interested. And postage is a lot less than a weeks vacation there.
I don't actually mind enjoying my anime while sitting in the dull not even similar Kawarthas of Central Ontario.
hasteroth wrote:I love the language, I took Japanese class in my school last year (my new school doesn't have one) and now I have Rosetta Stone (though I still prefer being taught by another person).
Rubystars wrote:I would like to visit Japan one day but there's no way I would want to live there. I don't belong there. It should be for Japanese people of Japanese descent. I respect their nation and their pride enough not to want to move there. I think it's wonderful that they keep their culture and people Japanese and I wouldn't want to do anything to sabotage that. I think the best way to love Japan is to allow them to be Japanese.
hasteroth wrote:Rubystars wrote:I would like to visit Japan one day but there's no way I would want to live there. I don't belong there. It should be for Japanese people of Japanese descent. I respect their nation and their pride enough not to want to move there. I think it's wonderful that they keep their culture and people Japanese and I wouldn't want to do anything to sabotage that. I think the best way to love Japan is to allow them to be Japanese.
Wow.... um yeah what? I mean I get what your saying but it's too late for Japan. The current generation of Japanese people don't really seem to care about any of that, they are the most Westernized of them all.
The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:hasteroth wrote:Rubystars wrote:I would like to visit Japan one day but there's no way I would want to live there. I don't belong there. It should be for Japanese people of Japanese descent. I respect their nation and their pride enough not to want to move there. I think it's wonderful that they keep their culture and people Japanese and I wouldn't want to do anything to sabotage that. I think the best way to love Japan is to allow them to be Japanese.
Wow.... um yeah what? I mean I get what your saying but it's too late for Japan. The current generation of Japanese people don't really seem to care about any of that, they are the most Westernized of them all.
Thank you for that very professional and informed opinion.
yuzo-haro wrote:Vivaldi wrote: I don't see a problem with loving another culture, and I don't inherently see a problem with wanting to be immersed in that culture. But there's a fine line of the people who love the japanese, and the people who want to be japanese. It's the latter kind who bother me, because They're slowing destroying what they love.
They recently passed a law to Deport (legal) brazillian workers to make more jobs for ethnic Japanese didn't they?
If I go to denmark, I want to see Dane's, not arabs, If I go to pakistan, I want to see arabs, not chinese, and if I go to japan, I'll be going to see the japanese, not the americans who want to be japanese.
I don't see a problem with loving another culture, and I don't inherently see a problem with wanting to be immersed in that culture. But there's a fine line of the people who love the japanese, and the people who want to be japanese. It's the latter kind who bother me, because They're slowing destroying what they love.
I agree with you all the way, I've been to Japan twice and, even then I have no wish to be Japanese. I would much rather be around the Japanese who truly ARE Japanese!
Then again to each his own
hasteroth wrote: I'll be teaching ENGLISH when I move over there, I doubt they'll have a problem with that.
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