On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Japanese-ness comes from being > born here, living here, speaking/writing Japanese, and doing Japanese > things.
... and not being of Korean slave labor or Ainu descent... > Yet, he's an American (of > Japanese parents) who has only lived in Japan for 10 years. I asked him why > he's treated differently. He said, "Simple. I /think/ differently. I'm an > American. I am different." So, here's a case of a guy born to Japanese > parents in NY, genetically he's Japanese, he's got family in Japan, he talks > as native Japanese as anyone here, yet he's not really Japanese /culturally/ > because his thinking process was formed when he was a kid living in the US. I think being brought up or living in a particular cultural milieu does affect one's values and lifestyle. > I think it's pretty rare. I look at the > US and Europe with all their diversity and yet I see basically one culture > -- western. Sure, it has many shades and distinctions between states in the > US and countries in Europe, but my goodness it all looks so very similar > from here because westerners think more alike than they think differently. How about India? And China? Do Indians think within a narrow band of thoughts? Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
