Whee for snow days! :D (I'd start a snowball fight, but I hate snowballs, and it'd be more of a sleetball today, anyway...)
I've thought for a long time that if a western writer portraying a Japanese (or other "eastern") culture made the less individualistic culture more sympathetic and understandable to westerners, rather than pandering to the western view of "See? Individualism is the way to go!" it'd be more interesting--and, of course, more culturally sensitive. I personally don't like attitudes like, "The nail that stands out gets hammered down," of course, but that doesn't mean cultures that believe that (or sentiments like it) are stupid or worthless.
And is it just me, or does the word "plethora" bring to mind some icky, dirty bloody substance? O_o
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Date: 2007-02-14 07:53 pm (UTC)I've thought for a long time that if a western writer portraying a Japanese (or other "eastern") culture made the less individualistic culture more sympathetic and understandable to westerners, rather than pandering to the western view of "See? Individualism is the way to go!" it'd be more interesting--and, of course, more culturally sensitive. I personally don't like attitudes like, "The nail that stands out gets hammered down," of course, but that doesn't mean cultures that believe that (or sentiments like it) are stupid or worthless.
And is it just me, or does the word "plethora" bring to mind some icky, dirty bloody substance? O_o