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Did I?
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I didn't say "answered me", so yes, you did!
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What traditions are you speaking of?
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For example shooting with a bow on horseback, or wearing kimonos as casual dresses and wearing traditional hats, or preparing traditional foods (from whale for instance) or eating with wooden chopsticks, or practicing calligraphy etc.
Do you intend to humiliate me, or that's enough?
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You are saying a lot of things all at once, so let's try and focus.
These days 99.9% of the time people do not wear kimono, this is true. Is the tradition of the kimono dead? I think you would have a hard time arguing that. It is strange seeing a woman wearing a kimono walking the streets of modern-day Tokyo? No, but it is cool to see.
Now if you were to see a man using a samurai sword to slay his enemy that would be shocking.
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I didn't say dead, not at once. I simply asked if it was OK them or not to change things, and don't they become weird after. I used my own experience with my country's ethnography and the people's attitude towards it, I wanted to know how it is there.
You are right though, I'm unsure about this whole thing, so that's why I asked.
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Of course it is impossible to keep things frozen in time. To freeze something is the same as killing it.
And I understand what you are saying about the world getting smaller and cultures mixing together more than in the past. The strong will survive.
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Remembering things won't kill things!! - I consider memories as ways to FREEZE our (past) life. Do you think something bad will come from them? I doubt we could survive without frozen things - we'd ran into the same mistakes over and over - traditions basically the projections of our common memory. - so yes, I hope they can keep things frozen a bit more !!!
I love cultures and the different counties different ways to look at and capture things, I mainly learned about these things through artifacts, books, records - none of them can provide efficient/decent knowledge about the people who live with/in it. I noticed that native Japanese people make posts here, so I asked, in a hope of some of them might tell me something about it. Guess I'd hold it back for a little more, to chisel it...
