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**Talizvar**

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

Now speaking in general wide terms that just beg for trouble but here goes:

They are highly disciplined people where everything is just so, while also the most strange twisted people in private you can ever know.
They are a study in contrast and seem to be able to express beauty in both these things.
But since I am not Japanese I will always be a Gaijin which will forever keep me at arm's length.

An example:

I do Kendo (Japanese sword fighting) and played against a much better player from Japan.
He hit the same spot on my armor at my collarbone 5 times, bruised like a son of a gun.
I thought he was a sadistic so and so demonstrating his superior skills.
Later, I found I had not tied my armor correctly and he was "politely" pointing out the error because he would NEVER be so rude to tell me in words.
They are like this and that makes them endearing / maddening as a culture.

Ah yes, to be true to the Forum:

"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy." - Sun Tzu

**Da Boss**

Albatross: I reckon is stems from a bunch of stuff.
-Nerds like "discovering" stuff and then talking about it with other nerds. Anime and Manga are nicely non-mainstream so it's possible to keep "discovering" new stuff all the time, if that's your MO.
-Far away = Better, for some reason.
-Kids like blood and swords and cartoons.
-Ninjas are cool, samurai are cool, these are both Japanese.
-Some Anime and Manga is actually really very good, and the difference in culture can mean that it is fresh and interesting for a westerner.

I realise that's all anime and manga focused, but I assume that is mostly what you're talking about.

**Orlanth**

Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.

It's a lesson most over here have forgotten.

**Frazzled**

Orlanth wrote:Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.

It's a lesson most over here have forgotten.

They don't mention starting that whole WWII thing very much though do they...

**Marshal2Crusaders**

I believe, for Orlanth, Hitler started WWII and Japan came later. Though I am ignorant of the British involvement in the Pacific, and if it predates Dec 7, 1941.

**Da Boss**

Orlanth: I think that's a pretty broad and sweeping generalisation that's hard to back up.

**Frazzled**

Frazzled wrote:
Orlanth wrote:Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.

It's a lesson most over here have forgotten.

They don't mention starting that whole WWII thing very much though do they...

My bad I meant Japan started WWII on the Asian side, although their intial expansion goes back to Manchuria. I'm sure none of that is expressed in detail or why the Americans unilaterally started attacking innocent Japan and how shortly thereafter the British started attacking Japan for no reason, and how the Russians started attacking them for no reason.

**Lint**

"You gotta scratch like nobody's watching and f**k like you don't need the money." ~Crystal from Squidbillies

"Dear Lord, please bless this meal of spent lottery tickets with their seasoning of silvery scratchings, and let them nourish our bodies as they were unable to do so for our wallets. And thank you for the untimely frost you sent, what destroyed my pointless banana orchard. Oh, I was a fool for planting bananas on a mountain Lord, you made sure of that. In short, thanks for nothing." ~Early Cuyler