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Apr 30, 2009 06:44PM
I've spent years in Japan and I in no way find this book to present the asain people or cultures in any fake-light. I suggest you don't make comments on what you don't know. Save your ignorance for more industrious uses.
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Hi Dominic, I am full-on 100% Japanese citizen. About as bi-lingual, bi-cultural as you get. I probably shouldn't have used the word faux. "forced" would have been better.
Thank you Michi, and Dominic I ask, how much do you know about true Japanese culture yourself? You can spend many years in Jamaica on a resort and never find out about TRUE Jamaica.
It's a metaphor!!! Get over it!!
every japanese thing i have seen or read , manga, anime , cartoon , games etc always has a pink coloured tree called "cherry blossom" with pink leaf like things falling from it. so i guess that tree is some kind of "paragon of BEAUTY" in japan/ or traditional-japan-merchandise :)
Michi, how can you live in NYC and claim to be a japanese citizen ?
The writing bothered me too. It did feel rather forced but when I think about it, how else could the author have written it?
Abhik, it may sound crazy, but you can be a citizen of another country and still live in the US as long as you have a visa (or are an illegal immigrant)
Michi, hey, isn't that a Taylor Swift lyric?
Abhik...sure "The American troops were very kind to us and gave candy to the children." sureeee right after America has tested its atomic bombs on japaness citizen, during the ongoing occupation and raping its citizen pogrom, that's what any Japaneses thinks of your soldiers. and it's not at all propaganda...
