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Originally Posted by Aniki
True, I'm not going to argue with that. Maybe I was overreacting about this, but I didn't make my assumptions from out of nowhere. Recently there was a show about the Japanese who are living here and they told that with each generation of Japanese young people show less interest to traditions and that is slowly becoming a problem in Japan. I've also read somewhere about it on the net.
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Showing less interest in traditional ceremonies does not equate to showing more interest in Western culture. I think you will find Japan is doing what it has always done for the past 2000 years, taking bits and pieces of culture from the current super power and integrated in a way that makes sense to the Japanese. I'm talking about China in the past and the US in the present.
As for the future, well Korea is having a small movement to bring back Chinese characters into its writing system so....
Also Aniki, just how much Japanese do you speak, I have a feeling you are not up to a stage when you realise just how differently you have to think just to speak Japanese.