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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper
They aren't weird, they are just different! Just because you might "think" that they are f. weird, only cause they do not fit in your Western typical maskulin MAN.. doesn't make the Japanese weird. You have a simple little norm in your head wich tells you, that the people who don't behave like Western man and don't weigh as much as Western man (what an ignorant thing to say, considering we are talking about an Asian Island btw.) have to be weird..
Nope, they are just different because they happen to be born on an Island, far away from any other Western standards.
May I ask you? What are you doing in a country which doesn't fit your philosophy?
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Who said it dooesnt fit my philosophy, and who said that men who arn't tall or bulky are not maculine?
Also, what do you know about my "norm"? I was born in Europe, but majority of my family are from the eastern part of the world, including Georgians and Tatars. My grandma was born in Northern China, though she was not Chinese, my granfather spent years in Vienam and Burma. I was fascinated with Asian culture long before you learned how to say "dada". My family is as European as Japanese are Norwegian.
Isolation is one thing, and not being adaptive is another. If you spent some tme here interacting with the Japanese people like i have, you would notice that many of them have issues with adaptation to new things, trends, that are not comonly accepted by the whole "island". There are many soide effects of it, both social and economical. But that is a never ending discussion, which i have no intention to be dragged into, as simply i cbf to talk about it any more.
It is amazing how isolation subject is being brought up every time Japan is being mentioned, and it is used as a deflecting shiled to any criticism. Well, we live in the era of instant info exchange and the isolation times are over. Time to catch up with the rest of the world. And do not even try to rebuttal this with "it's good to be different, and you do not accept it because you are a Western man, with Western-ideas-for-life infested mind".
I am in Japan because i really enjoy many aspects of the culture. I also think that the country itself fits my personality quite well. Contradictory to what i have said earlier on? I do not think so. Perhaps there is more to me than you superficially can see. As to the modern Japan, well, it is a bit irritating, but I try not to interact with it much. I pick thing worth nibbling on. Besides, there is no country or nation that would not annoy me or anyne else here. People are too socially correct to speak up.