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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
I could say the same about Belyvis and everyone else in this thread.
I have no problems with generalisations if they are based on actual facts. Any generalisation that starts with "According to my wife..." or that uses adjectives which imply some sort of bias (weak, immature). I'm not saying they're wrong because I'm right. I'm saying that IF I were to use the same method of making generalisation then I would come to a completely different conclusion. As you say yourself... there are millions of people in Japan... what makes the ones Belyvis and Keaton know representative of Japan while the ones I know exceptions?
The fact that Japanese males are on average, slightly smaller is nothing I have a problem with. (Though all too often, those that display no functional ability at high school maths seem to think that averages are representative of the society as a whole. They aren't... what's equally important is the RANGE when it comes to interpreting such data.)
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Ronin, I used my wife's opinion on what you wrote as well as what I've been told by my Japanese friends. How is this any different than you using your Japanese friend's opinions? You and I will never fully understand how Japanese think because we are not Japanese. The big difference in our opinions is I have lived there and you haven't. I base my opinion on my observations while I was there. My opinion has nothing to do with Japanese men's size, just how I saw them act with women.
We will never understand how Japanese think because a lot of them don't understand each other's thinking. Quit trying to be an "Armchair Sociologist".