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Originally Posted by TheCommodoreAfro
Dude, at least get the "kyuu" kanji right (breathe in, breathe out). If you want pompous, that's a start. This wasn't about Japan, this was about perspective you shmuck. And unlike you, I don't like to make grand sweeping statements about things out of my realm of experience, that I'm not prepared to defend.
So then, my kansai-ben speaking friend, what ideal it is that people need to adopt to? Multiculturalism provides as much balance (and barrier) to society as a compulsion to blend in. And it's not like the leader in gated communities (the US) is a multicultural society anyway.
In any event, my favourite part of the post is where you make my point for me. What is the value, or the cultural norm you start with? Is it language? Blending in? Religion? Is there some kind of test on shared beliefs and knowledge? What, then, are the values you then have to comply to?
Maybe I'm a lazy ass, but I think it's easier to be pompous and let everyone just do what it is they want to do. Within the rule of law of the country, and as long as they pay taxes, of course.
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Breathe in breathe out.....will do. Wipe on - wipe off. All I need is the paint brush
. And seriously the way the 浪速小母ーはん say it ...it sure sounds like BAN rather than ベン。
Sound pretty much we agree in priciple just not in terms. Shockin....
