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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
My views on Japan are not set in stone as although I'm studying the language and culture, I haven't been (yet).
Of course I have an idea on what it might be like based on what I've experienced and heard. But there's nothing wrong with that no?
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You sound like me. I've been studying both the language and the culture due to my extreme interest in it. I just wish I would've had the opportunity to do so when I was younger, but I had no place to learn of it or its culture, aside from random books I'd read in the library (culture ones; self-learning Japanese I couldn't get it well). My middle and high schools didn't offer any Asian languages, technically, so in middle school, I went with the next best thing...Spanish language and culture, since I've had a strong interest in that forever as well. The high school
had a Japanese class, but since I was already in Spanish, it was pointless to join it, especially since a short time later, they got rid of the class because not enough students were taking it. Also, the Internet wasn't as prominent back then either to find information lightning fast.
If I'd been born like, ten years later, and if the zoning hadn't changed, I'd have had the opportunity to study Japanese culture in school, like I originally wanted to, since Asian studies are offered there now.