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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Yeah, whatever you reckon. Nothin special, we had most those things back in Australia too  ...
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I don't know what you mean.
Cultures change. It's inevitable. If they don't they die. Japanese are the best adapters out there. They make a conscious effort to marry the old and the new in ways I have never seen in any other culture. I am not talking about museums and plaques. I am talking about traditions and festivals and events that have been going on for hundreds of years, and aren't done every year for tourism or money, but for tradition. I participated in a very dangerous and violeny danjiri fight festival just outside of Osaka. I was the first gaijin ever allowed to join my team (of about 75 guys) in thier 200 year history. (Two teams play joust rolling 2 ton wooden tanks at each other. Very wild stuff.)