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Is this just some guy's blog? This seems like wild orientalization.

• kurthr 8y ago
  It's some kind of forum for english speaking foreigners in Japan. From the phrasing it would seem that the writer isn't a primary english speaker, but has been living in Japan for a while. Lots of what he says are stereotypes, but some stereotypes are useful for understanding radically different cultures. Like it or not, my cultural mores were formed by Star Trek, and 80s sitcoms. It's what I think of as normal... watch some Japanese movies/drama and you'll see completely different and changing mores. Interestingly, for the last several years all of Asia seems to be watching Korean drama.