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japanese
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Juuitchan
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the national language of Japan, written using kana, kanji, and a few other characters. Sung, it sounds very cute. The only consonant that can end a word is N.
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. : * p s y b o r g * : .
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Japanese is my favorite language. I wish they had it for language learning classes in more high schools. Especially in pathetic small towns like mine.
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bijou
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god damn those half japanese boys, do it to me every time.
i like em real tall. with bleached hair.
*drool*
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Sonya
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lol...sounds like we have a fellow weezer fan on our hands!!!
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Japanese culture is very rich. I love their language, their customs, their foooood, and especially their arts and of course ANIME!!!!!
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Arekuzandah Biituru (kabuto!!)
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Who needs high school lessons? Teach yourself, that's what I've been doing! It's not as hard as you'd think! If only I could manage to build an actual vocabulary (and pick out more than one word in a spoken sentence!), I'd have it made.
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distorted tendencies
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hentai.. yeah hentai.. good hentai.... *drool and slobber*
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ellen cherry charles
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rice crackers, mm
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cube
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(I'm sure to catch flack for this one)
One cannot but see the economic power struggle between east and west. At one time, i was sure the east would win, but now, i'm not so sure.
I was concerned for the future. Would we in the west become the poor cousins of our eastern landlords? I stopped buying as many Japanese products as possible in the hope of stemming the tide. Not an easy thing to do, of course.
At one time the work ethic of the Japanese was frightening. Sure, some of them were committing suicide under the relentless pressure, but a small price to pay for the success of a nation. Now i'm happy to report that the next generation is turning out to be as spoiled and lazy as our own. Ok, maybe that much ambition takes another generation to tone down, but the writing is on the wall.
Proud they are too of their achievements - and rightly so. I should encourage that pride, for as we all know, "pride goeth before a fall"...
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Saint
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you're right about catching flak
i mean, hey, at least rednecks are obvious.
What, during that time you were so worried about it all, did you run around like a rabid talk show host waving banners that screamed "Yellow Peril! Yellow Peril!" at anything that looked remotely Asian?
oh, i forgot we should all be euro-centric and genuflect to the history and hegemony of the last people on earth to realize that the earth was neither flat nor the center of the universe.
the truth is a lot more insidious.
We as Americans, are a cultural plague on the rest of the world. I may be proud to be an american, but for fucksakes, when i get to travel overseas, i don't want every place i go to have a McDonalds and a Circle K on every corner
i like loud neon-lit places to be sure, but i'd rather they retain their local charm. there's some cool places on the Ginza i need to get back to...sigh
i had some great fun getting into trouble in the east.
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Casey
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I should learn this one day
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cube
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Waving banners isn't my style. I just stopped bying Japanese products in favor of North American ones wherever possible. I don't deny that i would probably be driving a better car if it was Japanese.
Some are inclined to deny that a global economic war exists. They probably care less about who their descendents will be competing against for employment opportunities. Will they to be fluent in Japanese? No harm in learning a new language. Will they no longer be able to expect upper management positions because their roots are not in Asia?
Perhaps in this ever shrinking globe the issue is becoming moot. I am willing to listen to a good argument in favor of selling our heritage - if you can come up with one...
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DannyH
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Will they ever tell us where they buy their sunglasses?
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Grievance
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I am an admirer of the Japanese culture. Just like any other culture, they have their fall backs. But, in comparing American and Japanese cultures I've found they answer each other's questions alot of the time.
I've been loosely studying Japanese culture for about two years now, and some things really strike me. Yes, the Americans are a cultural plague, as well as a cultural thief, but, I think there's also a beauty in that, when it's a sharing, another source of humanity.
Their traditional houses don't have any real doors, only sliding ones with thin papers between each room, allowing you to see the shadows of what is in the other rooms. Japanese truly respect each others privacy, they don't need locks on their doors to keep their sibblings or parents or anyone else out, they simply respect their privacy. While at the same time, privacy is not as much valued in Japan, where public baths are still in common use for many people.
They are a naturally intelligent people, and the way they communicate to each other is complex. Their language is often as much a barrier to their emotions as an expression of it, due to that, they have had to develop many ways in which to communicate.
They consider humbleness one of the greatest traits in existance, though also honor, traditionally speaking anyway. The Japanese are also very adaptable, they have been able to integrate Western ideals into their marketing and production in a very short time.
What really strikes me in cultural Japan, is their wide range of emotions, and great capability of expressing them. Translated clearly, even some of the simple things they say are poetic. of course, that's true also of some English things, but not very many.
To me, that's a small portion of the good things in Japan. They also have their general faults, just as every other culture. For Americans, it might be pride, or their position, or their blind eyes to their own cultural centrism. There are exceptions, and the realizations are coming for most Americans though. And for the Japanese, it might be a lack of forsight from their changing times, or their brutal belief in honor. However, there is a general realization in Japan of the limitations of their own rigidness formed from wives tales and war.
for me, the point of which culture is in the lead is moot. I believe, if all cultures can learn from each, that's an achievment. You can't gain peace with a sword. Swords lead to more swords in defiance of being forced. New orders, reformation, destruction of war.. those are some of the lessons taught in the East.
Independence, development, and diffusion.. some of the lessons of the West.
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Grievance
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my, that was long, and not good enough to take up that much space, sorry.
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werewolf
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chotto sumimasen, demo onsen wa doko desu ka?
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020419
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karasu
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totemo isogashii desu
(so much so that i shouldn't be blathing just now)
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020419
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werewolf
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ima blather o surubekinai hodo isogashii desu
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020419
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werewolf
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anata no nihongo wa doo desu ka?
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Sailor Jupiter
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I love listening to this language. I wish I could speak it. I love saying, "sue me ma sen" over and over. It sounds coolie
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werewolf
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sumimasen demo, anata wa chotto kawaii! honto ni! anata no hanasukata wa chotto omoshiroi. Watashi to anata wa aubeki desu demo anata wa wakai daroo to omoimasu.
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sweetheart of the song tra bong
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half_japanese_girls
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020425
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Sailor Jupiter
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Werewolf, I've been told i've been cute before. ^_^
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somebody
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IWi
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werewolf
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demo hajimeru no watashi kara kikimashita
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e.a.
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read this, you won't regret it.
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html
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werewolf
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arigato...
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020507
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werewolf
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it's so true...i'm the deer caught in headlights...haha...i would've wrote that page if i hadn't been beaten to it. The anime people sit next to me and asked me to attend their weekly dungeons and dragons session yesterday...the know it all is one of my better friends and always accidentally swears at the teacher trying to look cool. And i panic and say wakaranai everytime the teacher even looks at me. And the frustrations of having to retranslate english loan words into english...like what's the japanese word for door? doa...oh...do i have to say it that way? yes...if you don't we won't understand...i see...well...happy dankusugibingu. thanks so much for that link...i'll show it to all of my comrades
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unhinged
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japanese incense smells wonderful
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PHIL
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MY QUESTION TO SAINT IS THIS, WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME IF I TOLD YOU THE WORLD WAS FLAT?
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tabris metallium
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nihon ni ikitai
nihon wa subete
nihon ga daisuki
nihongo renshuu wo iru ^_^
hen dechu, wakarimasu ^_^
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werewolf
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nani?
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werewolf
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boku wa moto nihongo o renshuu surubeki kamoshirenai
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zulu
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I take japanese. In that class my name is nani, they asked me what my name was, I said what? That's what happened.
Ah the memories
Saita saita, churipu no hana ga,
Naranda, naranda, aka shiro kiiro,
Dono hana mite mo, kirei da na
I like that song, it's kawaii, we sang it in nihongo every day
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blown cherry
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excerpt from farmfish's_tri_rhyming_game
(since no one seemed to be able to get it there)
Kore wa Nihongo de....
1. writing
2. seven
3. is pretty
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freakizh
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anata wa very fucked desu.
ja, ne!
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trajik007
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lX©ηshit ¬―·ιΰ€κΒΜΎκͺΘ―κΞ±ΜΆ½Ν±Μ 1 lΜζ€ΙZρΕ’ιΏlͺΘ’B
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shorlove
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Michiko Kon'- "still lives"
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shorlove
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Michiko Kon - "still lives"
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Habitual Perceiver #314
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japanese culture (and the east in general) demonstrates how backward the west is in its understanding of the world
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misstree
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ethnocentrism is ethnocentrism no matter what side of the oceans you're on.
if you had said, "japanese culture certainly does have a different perspective than american" and then actually conveyed some information as to what makes you believe this or how you think it arose, i wouldn't be letting it get to me in my really really cantankerous mood that i now have to apologize for because i don't mean to be snippy but it's a peeve.
so say what you will, but in my little heart of hearts i'll just mumble "ethnocentrism" overandoverandoverandover.
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Habitual Perceiver #314
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i think i'm entitled to a bit of national pride ... and since i'm not actually japanese and i'm pretty certainly english i select not to take any.
I just wrote what i believe to be true. The problem with the west is that the ignorant masses have a tendency to mock cultures and traditions that are beautifully different because people don't run around working themselves into death in an effort to achieve wealth, status and self definition.
I guess it jst depends on whether you are someone who fully embraces the physicality of reality or if you reflect sometimes on what the meaning of reality is.
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werewolf
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first of all, cultural relativism isn't really a stance i favor. i don't think ethnocentrism is all that's happening when i say i'm glad our country doesn't perform clitorectomies or when i say i'm disappointed because our country still pays men more for the same job than women on average. there are certain value judgements which are only relative to what's best for the general universal human heart. secondly, the japanese don't work themselves to death? sore wa chotto machigatte imasu. nihonjin no sarurimanu wa yoku yoru osoku made hataraku. nihonjin no hataraku no seikatsu wa kibishi node jisatsu shimasu. gendai no hitobito wa ima masa ni karera no oya no seikatsu o kyozetsu shite imasu.
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neesh
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i have no idea what that means, but i do think the eastern ethos is one of ritual, formality and duty, and as such places, for example, family above work. that's what i thought anyway, and though i know very little about japanese culture, i feel it fair to say it can't really be worse than western society. or is that an ethnocentric (whatever that means) thing to say?
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misstree
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how do you define worse?
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misstree
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ethnocentrism is the belief that one culture is better or more valid than all others, usually the culture that one belongs to but not always.
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Habitual Perceiver #314
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so you did understand what i said. oriental culture is better than american culture ... its great when you can come to a conclusion everyone's happy with.
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neesh
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how do you define "better"?
and if we're going on definitions, i don't think ethnocentrism is a fair word to use really, because of its jingoistic connotations, its implications of close-mindedness. it seems to me more like HP314 is disillusioned with his own society and its ideals (materialism is only the tip of the ice berg |
