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[Halvorc]

 

[yun]

I've voted 6 because i've been to japan and want to visit it again since i only have been in tokyo.. but i'm only interest by music/clothes and visiting temples or so...

 

[Halvorc]

Haha I hesitated between 4 and 6 but 4 woud be more honest.

 

[Camuflagem]

I chose this "6 - I love almost everything from Japan, and I'd like to VISIT it (One more time if already done), but I wouldn't like to live there."

 

[PureElegance]

I chose 6, though I'd like to live there. Japan is pretty cool to me, I love to read about its history,religions, and traditions there. I like the culture and the music as well. My room is starting to look more and more Japanese/Chinese ::kisaki::

I like the contrast between old and new that you see in Japan.

Japan really fascinates me and I love receiving Japanese presents from my family and friends there

 

[boi de memoire]

I Guess... 4 =\

 

[evespikey]

None of the options completely cover what I agree with...obviously I love the music and fashion. I really want to visit Japan, more than any other country. And the scenery looks amazing, and I'm interested in the politics because I find politics fascinating anyway. So I voted 6.

 

[Einherjer]

chose 4

 

[Susan]

I voted 7 although I've yet to get to Japan, because I really do LOVe Japan, although I haven't taken much interest in their politics (I don't even care much about politics in my OWN country), but I am a bit interested in things besides music, fashion, and anime.

I do hope to live there someday, but I guess it depends on where I end up after I finish school.

 

[nekoi]

I voted 7. I've only been to Japan once and as much as I liked it, I prefer Canada... I might concider it, though as I do enjoy the language and music.

Politics, I don't really care about, as long as I'm not being screwed over and/or forced into war.

 

[Amatsu]

7

:} nothing else to say. I love politics, I'm interested in tradition, I like pop culture, I like music from japan. I want to live there so bad, mostly to become fluent in Japanese, and have all the above things [politics, etc...] more accessible to me, for learning, and being involved with...

I don't want to live in the NORTH AMERICAN UNION.

 

[flowersofnight]

I don't want to live in the NORTH AMERICAN UNION.

The what? XD

 

[Orchid]

I voted #1, strongly swaying towards #2 for my liking of music from artists and performers who happen to be from Japan, but this makes no more difference to me much of a greater amount than any musician(s) from anywhere all over the world I enjoy the work of. It's personally perceived being silly to absorb oneself into this ridiculous fixation we can often see among so many this generation on all things of a nation for your interest in its popular entertainment.

I do however acknowledge how phenomenal it is that this immense Japanese cultural explosion's been spreading since the late 1990s throughout Europe and the US. I've never seen anything like it happen with any other country and suppose it's the diverse appeal its youth culture has to many foreigners taking part in what it has to offer for the widespread repertoire of different selections of interests and directions for most sorts of "niche" categories of person by general preference in semantic.

 

[flowersofnight]

It's personally perceived being silly to absorb oneself into this ridiculous fixation we can often see among so many this generation on all things of a nation for your interest in its popular entertainment.

Yeah, I find myself wrestling with that one from time to time. I find Japan to be an interesting nation and culture to study, and I try to do so with some degree of seriousness, but the fact still remains that I got into it because of the music. I like to think that the difference is that I don't fall into the uncritical acceptance and idealization that some "Japanophiles" do, but some people (like my sister XD) say I might as well be just as bad.
I think there's something to be said for studying a culture in depth though, regardless of the original motivation. What say you?

I do however acknowledge how phenomenal it is that this immense Japanese cultural explosion's been spreading since the late 1990s throughout Europe and the US. I've never seen anything like it happen with any other country

How about the "British Invasion"?

 

[Orchid]

Oh, most definitely! That assessment was going to be the ending sentence to that first paragraph as a disclaimer of thought for genuine appreciation of the history and society of a country and its developed culture as a result of those, which I'm just as guilty of as anyone who's even superficially with Japan — mine is Italy foremost.

I do however acknowledge how phenomenal it is that this immense Japanese cultural explosion's been spreading since the late 1990s throughout Europe and the US. I've never seen anything like it happen with any other country

How about the "British Invasion"?

That's true, but that was also before my time.

No, you're right. I wouldn't though compare them together so much similarly out of the massive tenfold scale the Japanese seizure can be measured over it principally reasoned with the existence of the Internet and related information and communication networks by technology that weren't around to amplify the resonance back then. And the most telling difference between them; the British fad was almost exclusively musical, with a considerable response back in turn by American artists taking cues from influence by the bands across the ocean and vice versa, whereas whilst music makes up a considerably large portion of today's Japanophilia, it's either the gateway offering or the very basis of everything else related to the nation's teen trends that end up encompassing all.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

I don't honestly fall into any of these options. I think they're worded rather badly.

 

[Amatsu]

I don't want to live in the NORTH AMERICAN UNION.

The what? XD

this just shows how much our government hides stuff from us.

sorry for the YOUTUBE link, but this is not in print:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H65f3q_Lm9U

In time, it will make canada, mexico, and USA turn into one union, voiding the constitution so they can take away more of our rights.


CONSPIRACY THEORY: asia will become the union of asia, and europe will become the union of europe, and africa will be the union of africa. soon all unions will merge and we'll have one world government...


If you're easily offended do not click, anti-christian content:

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

:/ I'm not crazy. hahaha

 

[rizumu]

Addicted to Japan? I'm not addicted to Japan any more than I'm addicted to the US. It's a cool place with cool stuff.

The choices are so convoluted my head is spinning. I've been there before, and am going to be there again working in not too long. Whatever one that is.

 

[navate]

2

Really all I care about is the music.

I do watch some anime, and I enjoy the eccentricities of Japanese culture, but I don't religiously follow any of it. Certainly not obsessed with it. I'd not mind visiting, but only because I like to travel (already seen Europe and would like to see Asia eventually too.)

 

[Haku]

I chose #3.

I want to live in Japan also... Teach english there for a couple of years then come home. Just for the experience. =3