Quote:
Originally Posted by File0
I didn't say "answered me", so yes, you did!  |
I have no idea why you are saying "answered me" in quotes.
Quote:
Originally Posted by File0
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.
|
Besides practicing calligraphy and using wooden chopsticks, these traditions have died out. But are not forgotten, for sure.
Quote:
Originally Posted by File0
Do you intend to humiliate me, or that's enough?
|
Again, I have no idea what you are talking about. I do not make a practice of intentionally humiliating people here.
Quote:
Originally Posted by File0
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.
|
In appropriate situations, wearing a kimono is not only not weird, but expected.
Keep in mind a proper kimono is a dress that requires a staff to help dress. It wasn't like all women wore kimono every day in Japan.
Quote:
Originally Posted by File0
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...  |
This is not what I said. You said "freezing tradition" for the sake of keeping the tradition. This goes back to my first post... this doesn't happen. Traditions either live or they die.