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Originally Posted by bleedingboy
tea comes from china. almost all of japan's culture was rooted from china. ideas are often stolen from another, and improved by one.
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I've heard that Japanese culture derives from Korean culture as well. Supposedly the question of Japanese cultural origin is often the cause of a major identity crisis for Japanese people - they don't like to be thought of as the 'offspring' of other cultures, apparently. At least not on the expense of their present-day cultural uniqueness/individuality.
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most of our words are repeated. like. kili-kili [armpit]
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I've read about this somewhere. Do you do this with all your words, or just with certain word categories, like nouns? What happens if you say just "kili" instead of "kili-kili"? Will people still understand you?
~annelie