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What makes you say that?

I think we are "Mixed" culture if anything, I live in an Asian dominated neighborhood.. just one major intersection over, its an Italian neighborhood, with the Jewish just slightly south, and the Jamaican further south...

The only native we have are the friggin beaver, every family was an immigrant at some point.....

One thing would be that living here is not easy, and that is fun as one learns a lot. I am more into Far East in general than Japan in particular (especially with my family roots going back to Northern China), but at the beginning it was martial arts, and for a past decade it is calligraphy.

"The only native we have are the friggin beaver" - Lol, Godwine :D

Definitely, forget about living there for a long time. We need more users like you to really tell those kid out there that they need to be more realistic. Its not easy starting life in Japan.. not even as a tourist....

That was an exaggeration :) But its true, I don't think We have any native culture here in Canada. Everyone came from somewhere. If you take out a map and draw a circle around my place with a 6KM radius, you will have enough cultural communities scattered to start a second UN....

Well I like cold countries. I'd like to stay in a log cabin. I might not go skiing! I think I'd be scared!

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Thus, I don't have a culture. I hate being this way. :(

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What got me interested in Japan was the sound of the language they spake/spoken/spaken/spoke. ( Which ever word makes the most sense ) When, I first heard it, I loved it. It was like a song you'd listen to; it had a beat. So, want to learn that beat and make it become my own. To be able to converse with the people. But, that beat has many paths to start with. I don't know which path to take to reach the end, the center, the top... So, I'll walk around aimlessly until I reach my destination. But for now, I'll just lick my chin and nose really fast to past the time.:mtongue:

*I started with videogames (I used to be a Nintendo fanboy).
*Then I learned about anime ( Currently I still like it, but I mostly watch Seinen series).
*I love the language ( what other language uses 3 writing systems?).
*I feel it's my duty to study all the Japanese history, geography and culture throughly...
*I started liking calligraphy, thus I need to study it....

P.S. If the japanese laws were better, then I would consider their AVs as good, unfortunately that is not the case.

Being brought up in a Korean influenced household, despite being a white American. That led me to explore other cultures of Asia.

It's pretty freaky how non of you mention the people and their wonderful mantality as a reason Why!!

Kinda sad really.. cause thats the actual point which stands out the most between the two worlds.

All this other stuff is meaningless, think about it!!

Why don't you expand a little bit about their wonderful mEntality bobby. I always get a kick out of hearing your extensive and intricate assump...err I mean knowledge about Japan.