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08-20-2010, 11:27 PM

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I have read about this issue of indebtedness. That even an unborn child will be born with indebtedness to al lwho have gone before. Somewhere it was called "ON" I believe by Ruth Benedict.
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Again, exhausted, so not going into a long post here, but take Ruth Benedict with a large pinch of salt. At the time what she wrote was invaluable, but it's very outdated now and at the time of writing Chrysthanthemum and the Sword, her most famous work on japanese culture, she had never been to Japan. It's worth reading for historical value, but most anthropologists today accept that it has little bearing on modern Japan.
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