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Originally Posted by Nyororin
This is right - but that doesn`t mean that she is childish. It`s all cultural. You were raised in one culture where certain things were viewed as childish, and she was raised in another where different things were viewed as childish. That doesn`t mean that she actually is childish - just that in your culture some of the things she does are considered to be so.
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That's the point though isn't Nyororin. To us they can appear childish. We are not Japanese and were not brought up in their culture. You are right that judgements are being made based on our own cultural viewpoints but how else can we judge? We can't help the way things appear to us even if we do accept that in Japan they may look at it differently. As I've said many times previously even if we understand the cultural reasons behind why some things happen the way they do here it doesn't mean we have to accept them as good things. We can still dislike them!