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Originally Posted by GoNative
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!
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Did you read the original link? That`s what I was talking about - not that things don`t / shouldn`t appear childish to someone from another culture. In the original article, the attitude is not seeming childish from the view of another culture, but actually being childish.
"It's no exaggeration to say that Japanese (particularly women) think on a more childlike level."
This isn`t behavior. This isn`t appearance. He is actually saying that people in Japan
think like children, which I think is a pretty huge leap to make from "cultural differences may cause some things to seem child-like".