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In my opinion, Japanese culture is one of the most resilient ones in the world. Look at the language. You see Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji was imported 1500 years ago from China. And Japanese invented Hiragana and Katakana from it and use a mixture of them now. Nobody says Japanese writing system is a bad copy of the Chinese one today. Likewise, Japanese didn't eat animal meat up until 150 years ago. Today, you see a lot of "Japanese" dishes that use beef, pork and chicken. Even Tempra has an origin in Portuguese dishes.

I think it's this attitude, attitude to import new and good things from outside and digest them in our own way to create new things that makes Japanese culture unique. Even Manga and Anime aren't entirely Japanese. They have strong influence from Disney. But Japan had things like 浮世絵 and 紙芝居 and we adopted new things from the west and now nobody says or even thinks Manga is western.

So, nah, most of us aren't "afraid" of the change.