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Originally Posted by Umihito
But I wouldn't go to Rome in a Toga, carrying a sword shouting 'Gladiator! Long live the Emperor!'
As such, I wouldn't go into Tokyo in clothing that hasn't been worn for a very long time.
If someone came here to Britain dressed as a knight or king randomly walking around the street... I'd be a little worried.
If you're American, wouldn't you feel a little strange if a bunch of foreigners started coming over dressed as cowboys wrangling cattle? Walking the streets as Matadors if you're Spanish?
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these customs are generally no longer practiced in their respective countries,
where as in Japan they are.
but, hundreds of years ago if a Japanese person came to Britain dressed as a knight, it would be weird
or, if a Japanese person went to America a few hundred years ago dressed as a cowboy it would be funny as hell, and no one would have consider that Japanese person to be American regardless, not even that Japanese person
