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Tell me more :) I mean I kind of know what you're referring to but I've never really read much about it. It'll either be really dry academic stuff, or some over
by IkmoIkmo 12y ago
Tell me more :) I mean I kind of know what you're referring to but I've never really read much about it. It'll either be really dry academic stuff, or some over the top Vice article that makes any culture look like that of North Korea. And while I've watched a fair bit of Japanese cinema and all, and having visited neighboring countries but never Japan itself, I sort of know how it's like but also not really, at all, so I'd be interested to know more. Cheers
- escherplex 12y agoIf you haven't already, I'd suggest downloading 'Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904)' by Lafcadio Hearn (free for Kindle or as an .html from Project Gutenberg). Although sympathetic but culturally chauvinistic by contemporary standards this study does supply a corpus of interesting observations on the history of a Japan rapidly transitioning from micro-managed hierarchical feudalism to a form of Euro-inspired modernism, with associated strengths and weaknesses. And this while engaged in a war with tsarist Russia. What Japan was shapes what Japan is.
- mc32 12y agoI dont have time to look but here are some listed examples. http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/news/default.aspx?newsid=121 http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/news/default.aspx?newsi... Basically in a way society advises you on what's best for you. Yes there are examples in other countries, but they pale in scope. In Japan it begins in elementary school and follows you all thru life.