Clovis Merovingian
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Sept 27, 2020 22:53:30 GMT
I notice that in the United States there are a great many people who love and have an obsession with Japanese culture. My grandmother has an obsession and affinity for Native American culture. My brother has a love for Irish culture. I myself have a great love for ancient and Medieval Germanic culture, the Norse, the Continental Germanics, and the Anglo Saxons.
I differ from all the other examples in that i'm heavily descended from these peoples and have an ancestral connection (and living in the USA I have a cultural connection as well) but i'd love this culture even if I had no connection. I love their mythology, I love their general outlook on life, I love their languages, and I generally love the culture and history in general. Is there any culture in which you have a great affinity for whether or not you have a connection to them?
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Post by joustos on Sept 28, 2020 17:23:06 GMT
I notice that in the United States there are a great many people who love and have an obsession with Japanese culture. My grandmother has an obsession and affinity for Native American culture. My brother has a love for Irish culture. I myself have a great love for ancient and Medieval Germanic culture, the Norse, the Continental Germanics, and the Anglo Saxons. I differ from all the other examples in that i'm heavily descended from these peoples and have an ancestral connection (and living in the USA I have a cultural connection as well) but i'd love this culture even if I had no connection. I love their mythology, I love their general outlook on life, I love their languages, and I generally love the culture and history in general. Is there any culture in which you have a great affinity for whether or not you have a connection to them? Clovis, I know that the Merovingians were Frankish people and that the Franks were what we call by the generic term "Germanics" because of biological and cultural kinships. So, in fact what you mean by "affinity to culture" is "affinity to an ethnic culture" rather than some individual person's culture. And I agree with what you implicitly mean by "culture" -- not character refinement but human/anthropinic products and deeds, namely a language, a religion or theo-poiesis (the making of gods), technologies, fine arts, customs, laws, political systems, games and sports, and so forth -- which are the subjects of Cultural Anthopology. But now we have a problem with your question about "affinity". Do you mean "intense liking; a wish to have a certain ethnic culture (such as the Japanese one)" or "adherence, or virtual participation in the ethnikon/tribe which has a certain culture", as by listening to its music, doing or behaving as they do, speaking the same language, practicing the same religion or rituals. etc.? My early ethnicity is Italian or, more specifically "Modern Magno-Graecian" as I was born and raised in South Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia/Megale Hellas, which the local Greeks actually called Oyitalia or simply Italia). [Hence those Greeks called themselves Italiotai. The name "Italia" was applied to almost the whole peninsula by the time Julius Caesar and his legion retuned to Italy by crossing the Rubicon river without the Senate's permission. He undermined the Roman Republic, which was "Senatus Populusque Romanus", the Senate and the Roman People.] The Latin and Greek I know were learned in school; they are due to adherence to Roman culture and Greek culture. My native language, a Magno-Graecian dialect (which includes corrupted Greek, Latin, and Italian words, like "aioste, nustierzi e` passatu = Hurry up, the day before yesterday has passed) is due to my having been part of a certan ethikon.
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Clovis Merovingian
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Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Sept 28, 2020 20:56:52 GMT
I notice that in the United States there are a great many people who love and have an obsession with Japanese culture. My grandmother has an obsession and affinity for Native American culture. My brother has a love for Irish culture. I myself have a great love for ancient and Medieval Germanic culture, the Norse, the Continental Germanics, and the Anglo Saxons. I differ from all the other examples in that i'm heavily descended from these peoples and have an ancestral connection (and living in the USA I have a cultural connection as well) but i'd love this culture even if I had no connection. I love their mythology, I love their general outlook on life, I love their languages, and I generally love the culture and history in general. Is there any culture in which you have a great affinity for whether or not you have a connection to them? Clovis, I know that the Merovingians were Frankish people and that the Franks were what we call by the generic term "Germanics" because of biological and cultural kinships. So, in fact what you mean by "affinity to culture" is "affinity to an ethnic culture" rather than some individual person's culture. And I agree with what you implicitly mean by "culture" -- not character refinement but human/anthropinic products and deeds, namely a language, a religion or theo-poiesis (the making of gods), technologies, fine arts, customs, laws, political systems, games and sports, and so forth -- which are the subjects of Cultural Anthopology. But now we have a problem with your question about "affinity". Do you mean "intense liking; a wish to have a certain ethnic culture (such as the Japanese one)" or "adherence, or virtual participation in the ethnikon/tribe which has a certain culture", as by listening to its music, doing or behaving as they do, speaking the same language, practicing the same religion or rituals. etc.? My early ethnicity is Italian or, more specifically "Modern Magno-Graecian" as I was born and raised in South Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia/Megale Hellas, which the local Greeks actually called Oyitalia or simply Italia). [Hence those Greeks called themselves Italiotai. The name "Italia" was applied to almost the whole peninsula by the time Julius Caesar and his legion retuned to Italy by crossing the Rubicon river without the Senate's permission. He undermined the Roman Republic, which was "Senatus Populusque Romanus", the Senate and the Roman People.] The Latin and Greek I know were learned in school; they are due to adherence to Roman culture and Greek culture. My native language, a Magno-Graecian dialect (which includes corrupted Greek, Latin, and Italian words, like "aioste, nustierzi e` passatu = Hurry up, the day before yesterday has passed) is due to my having been part of a certan ethikon.
What I mean by affinity is an intense liking for a culture like an American weeaboo or an Anglophile.
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Clovis Merovingian
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Posts: 2,673
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Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Sept 29, 2020 4:20:49 GMT
I notice that in the United States there are a great many people who love and have an obsession with Japanese culture. My grandmother has an obsession and affinity for Native American culture. My brother has a love for Irish culture. I myself have a great love for ancient and Medieval Germanic culture, the Norse, the Continental Germanics, and the Anglo Saxons. I differ from all the other examples in that i'm heavily descended from these peoples and have an ancestral connection (and living in the USA I have a cultural connection as well) but i'd love this culture even if I had no connection. I love their mythology, I love their general outlook on life, I love their languages, and I generally love the culture and history in general. Is there any culture in which you have a great affinity for whether or not you have a connection to them? Clovis, I know that the Merovingians were Frankish people and that the Franks were what we call by the generic term "Germanics" because of biological and cultural kinships. So, in fact what you mean by "affinity to culture" is "affinity to an ethnic culture" rather than some individual person's culture. And I agree with what you implicitly mean by "culture" -- not character refinement but human/anthropinic products and deeds, namely a language, a religion or theo-poiesis (the making of gods), technologies, fine arts, customs, laws, political systems, games and sports, and so forth -- which are the subjects of Cultural Anthopology. But now we have a problem with your question about "affinity". Do you mean "intense liking; a wish to have a certain ethnic culture (such as the Japanese one)" or "adherence, or virtual participation in the ethnikon/tribe which has a certain culture", as by listening to its music, doing or behaving as they do, speaking the same language, practicing the same religion or rituals. etc.? My early ethnicity is Italian or, more specifically "Modern Magno-Graecian" as I was born and raised in South Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia/Megale Hellas, which the local Greeks actually called Oyitalia or simply Italia). [Hence those Greeks called themselves Italiotai. The name "Italia" was applied to almost the whole peninsula by the time Julius Caesar and his legion retuned to Italy by crossing the Rubicon river without the Senate's permission. He undermined the Roman Republic, which was "Senatus Populusque Romanus", the Senate and the Roman People.] The Latin and Greek I know were learned in school; they are due to adherence to Roman culture and Greek culture. My native language, a Magno-Graecian dialect (which includes corrupted Greek, Latin, and Italian words, like "aioste, nustierzi e` passatu = Hurry up, the day before yesterday has passed) is due to my having been part of a certan ethikon.
As I understand it there is a racial difference in Northern Italy and Southern Italy. Southern Italians are more Mediterranean and Northern Italy is more Alpine with a history of Germanic settlement by the Lombards adding to the native stock. I heard that there are other major cultural divisions and that Italy is an invented nation with little true unity, that certain the regions are ethnically distinct. If I had to identify myself ethnically (and by ethnically I mean in a sociological sense where ethnicity is synonymous with culture) i'd say that I culturally am associated with the Deep South of the United States. That culture that started in the slave societies of the Caribbean and spread to my native South Carolina first and then to coast of Georgia and southeast North Carolina and then spread westward and southward into Northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Louisiana, East Texas, and in the Mississippi valleys of Arkansas and Tennessee. It's the culture of the old cotton belt, the culture depicted in Gone With the Wind. This culture is different than the Upper South which was settled by Scots Irish from Northern Ireland. The United States is also a country with an illusionary unity. Different parts were settled by different people with cultures that differ in values more than any two European member states. Mississippi and Vermont might as well be different planets regarding cultural values.
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 29, 2020 4:30:45 GMT
If I had to pick one other than the cultures I've been growing up in then it'll be Mexican. That's because I'm surrounded by Mexican people and food here. I think personally people who are living amongs many cultures are more easily able to adapt or like them. Or does anyone disagree?
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Post by joustos on Sept 29, 2020 17:46:25 GMT
If I had to pick one other than the cultures I've been growing up in then it'll be Mexican. That's because I'm surrounded by Mexican people and food here. I think personally people who are living amongs many cultures are more easily able to adapt or like them. Or does anyone disagree? I definitely disagree, if we talk about being surrounded by different cultures or communities. I live in a white community which is surrounded by white, black, and Jewish communities, but, since I do not have many interactions with them and I do not live within them, I have no affinity for, closeness to (or alienation from) their cultures. The affinity for a modern or an ancient culture -- actually for a learned culture -- depends mostly on what one cerebrally or potentially is. Humans are not potentially or actually equal; therefore, not all men have an affinity for a certain type of poetry, music, painting, political system, religion, ethics, cuisine, theater, humor, behavior, sport, or other cultural activity. [A culture consists of Pragmata (things made or done, including mathematics and Euclid's Elements) and Mathemata (things learned), as the 18th century ethnologist Vico understood.]
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Post by joustos on Sept 29, 2020 20:36:49 GMT
O.K., guys. Let's use the English language correctly. We should say: I have an affinity TO such-and-such a culture, rather than FOR... However, since AFFINITY can mean ATTRACTION FOR..., one may have the tendency to say AFFINITY FOR. No matter.
Incidentally, Elizabeth, we are making ARKTOS into A Social And Cultural Anthropology Community -- which has a great historiographic culture and I myself have an affinity to. Some of the Forum's sections are openings for further articles on national/ethnic cultures, which will joyfully educate all of us and young students. It's a great Forum! // In Latin and Greek: Ubi Arktos ibi Paideia = Where there is Arktos there is Education. {So, the forum Arktos is being conceived as an interactive or dialectic Academy, as it certainly is.} Cheers.
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Post by joustos on Sept 29, 2020 21:30:53 GMT
Clovis, I know that the Merovingians were Frankish people and that the Franks were what we call by the generic term "Germanics" because of biological and cultural kinships. So, in fact what you mean by "affinity to culture" is "affinity to an ethnic culture" rather than some individual person's culture. And I agree with what you implicitly mean by "culture" -- not character refinement but human/anthropinic products and deeds, namely a language, a religion or theo-poiesis (the making of gods), technologies, fine arts, customs, laws, political systems, games and sports, and so forth -- which are the subjects of Cultural Anthopology. But now we have a problem with your question about "affinity". Do you mean "intense liking; a wish to have a certain ethnic culture (such as the Japanese one)" or "adherence, or virtual participation in the ethnikon/tribe which has a certain culture", as by listening to its music, doing or behaving as they do, speaking the same language, practicing the same religion or rituals. etc.? My early ethnicity is Italian or, more specifically "Modern Magno-Graecian" as I was born and raised in South Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia/Megale Hellas, which the local Greeks actually called Oyitalia or simply Italia). [Hence those Greeks called themselves Italiotai. The name "Italia" was applied to almost the whole peninsula by the time Julius Caesar and his legion retuned to Italy by crossing the Rubicon river without the Senate's permission. He undermined the Roman Republic, which was "Senatus Populusque Romanus", the Senate and the Roman People.] The Latin and Greek I know were learned in school; they are due to adherence to Roman culture and Greek culture. My native language, a Magno-Graecian dialect (which includes corrupted Greek, Latin, and Italian words, like "aioste, nustierzi e` passatu = Hurry up, the day before yesterday has passed) is due to my having been part of a certan ethikon.
As I understand it there is a racial difference in Northern Italy and Southern Italy. Southern Italians are more Mediterranean and Northern Italy is more Alpine with a history of Germanic settlement by the Lombards adding to the native stock. I heard that there are other major cultural divisions and that Italy is an invented nation with little true unity, that certain the regions are ethnically distinct. If I had to identify myself ethnically (and by ethnically I mean in a sociological sense where ethnicity is synonymous with culture) i'd say that I culturally am associated with the Deep South of the United States. That culture that started in the slave societies of the Caribbean and spread to my native South Carolina first and then to coast of Georgia and southeast North Carolina and then spread westward and southward into Northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Louisiana, East Texas, and in the Mississippi valleys of Arkansas and Tennessee. It's the culture of the old cotton belt, the culture depicted in Gone With the Wind. This culture is different than the Upper South which was settled by Scots Irish from Northern Ireland. The United States is also a country with an illusionary unity. Different parts were settled by different people with cultures that differ in values more than any two European member states. Mississippi and Vermont might as well be different planets regarding cultural values. About Italy: Emperor Augustus and, 1861, the king-to-be Victor Emanuel II, unified the peoples or the regions of the land by one political-judicial system, but, as prime minister Cavour said, We made Italy but now we have to make the Italians. The disparity of the Italians is not a racial disparity, since Southern Italy and Sicily have more blond/Alpine and hybrid people than Northern Italy on account of the Longobards, a Germanic people (in Benevetum, my native town, etc.) and, later on, the Normans who controlled much of the South before 1066 (their occupation of England). The real dispariity used to be cultural (in economics, education, manners, etc. ), hence in the surnames of people: Civil and Peasant or Uncouth.
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Clovis Merovingian
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Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Sept 30, 2020 4:38:38 GMT
As I understand it there is a racial difference in Northern Italy and Southern Italy. Southern Italians are more Mediterranean and Northern Italy is more Alpine with a history of Germanic settlement by the Lombards adding to the native stock. I heard that there are other major cultural divisions and that Italy is an invented nation with little true unity, that certain the regions are ethnically distinct. If I had to identify myself ethnically (and by ethnically I mean in a sociological sense where ethnicity is synonymous with culture) i'd say that I culturally am associated with the Deep South of the United States. That culture that started in the slave societies of the Caribbean and spread to my native South Carolina first and then to coast of Georgia and southeast North Carolina and then spread westward and southward into Northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Louisiana, East Texas, and in the Mississippi valleys of Arkansas and Tennessee. It's the culture of the old cotton belt, the culture depicted in Gone With the Wind. This culture is different than the Upper South which was settled by Scots Irish from Northern Ireland. The United States is also a country with an illusionary unity. Different parts were settled by different people with cultures that differ in values more than any two European member states. Mississippi and Vermont might as well be different planets regarding cultural values. About Italy: Emperor Augustus and, 1861, the king-to-be Victor Emanuel II, unified the peoples or the regions of the land by one political-judicial system, but, as prime minister Cavour said, We made Italy but now we have to make the Italians. The disparity of the Italians is not a racial disparity, since Southern Italy and Sicily have more blond/Alpine and hybrid people than Northern Italy on account of the Longobards, a Germanic people (in Benevetum, my native town, etc.) and, later on, the Normans who controlled much of the South before 1066 (their occupation of England). The real dispariity used to be cultural (in economics, education, manners, etc. ), hence in the surnames of people: Civil and Peasant or Uncouth. Edit: I am making no serious point here it's just that the bolded sentence brought this hilarious scene from True Romance to mind.
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 30, 2020 4:58:42 GMT
If I had to pick one other than the cultures I've been growing up in then it'll be Mexican. That's because I'm surrounded by Mexican people and food here. I think personally people who are living amongs many cultures are more easily able to adapt or like them. Or does anyone disagree? I definitely disagree, if we talk about being surrounded by different cultures or communities. I live in a white community which is surrounded by white, black, and Jewish communities, but, since I do not have many interactions with them and I do not live within them, I have no affinity for, closeness to (or alienation from) their cultures. The affinity for a modern or an ancient culture -- actually for a learned culture -- depends mostly on what one cerebrally or potentially is. Humans are not potentially or actually equal; therefore, not all men have an affinity for a certain type of poetry, music, painting, political system, religion, ethics, cuisine, theater, humor, behavior, sport, or other cultural activity. [A culture consists of Pragmata (things made or done, including mathematics and Euclid's Elements) and Mathemata (things learned), as the 18th century ethnologist Vico understood.] Maybe I worded it wrong because I do see what you mean and in California it's not only surrounded by the Mexican culture but also by asian, black, white, etc. I guess I mean like when your community is normally multiethnic and you are basically forced to live in it if you reside there. Like I'm surrounded by many cultures but only the Mexican one is pushed on me. Meaning that when you apply to jobs they either prefer you to speak Spanish or require you to speak it. Plus in order for me to graduate from high school here I had to take 2 years of Spanish minimum. So when I'm I guess pushed into it not so much as surrounded. Do you get any of that where you live?
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Post by joustos on Sept 30, 2020 17:09:05 GMT
I definitely disagree, if we talk about being surrounded by different cultures or communities. I live in a white community which is surrounded by white, black, and Jewish communities, but, since I do not have many interactions with them and I do not live within them, I have no affinity for, closeness to (or alienation from) their cultures. The affinity for a modern or an ancient culture -- actually for a learned culture -- depends mostly on what one cerebrally or potentially is. Humans are not potentially or actually equal; therefore, not all men have an affinity for a certain type of poetry, music, painting, political system, religion, ethics, cuisine, theater, humor, behavior, sport, or other cultural activity. [A culture consists of Pragmata (things made or done, including mathematics and Euclid's Elements) and Mathemata (things learned), as the 18th century ethnologist Vico understood.] Maybe I worded it wrong because I do see what you mean and in California it's not only surrounded by the Mexican culture but also by asian, black, white, etc. I guess I mean like when your community is normally multiethnic and you are basically forced to live in it if you reside there. Like I'm surrounded by many cultures but only the Mexican one is pushed on me. Meaning that when you apply to jobs they either prefer you to speak Spanish or require you to speak it. Plus in order for me to graduate from high school here I had to take 2 years of Spanish minimum. So when I'm I guess pushed into it not so much as surrounded. Do you get any of that where you live? Yes, indeed. By living in a pushy culture, one is driven to adopt or to have an affinity to that culture. Any school is pushy in the sense that it requires the study of certain subjects. My high school education was mostly in Italy, where, for example, I had to take cultural subjects (Italian, Latin, Greek, mathematics, geography, a foreign language [in my case, French and, later English], Christian theology). However, I think that an affinity or kinship with the cultures that produced those cultural items depends, at least in part, on a cerebral kinship or similarity with the makers of those cultures. For instance, if a student, unlike me, is incapable of developing a new geometrical theorem, he is cerebrally inferior to Euclid. If a man is incapable of constructing a world map by using available modern distances between ports and angles [compass directions], he is cerebrally inferior to Toscanelli, who exactly constructed a "portolan" map of the world and gave to seafaring Columbus. {The art of map-making, which is not a subject in high school, is called Cartography. Geo-graphy comprises cartographs, inspections of lands, and aerial photographs of the Earth.}Cheers.
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Post by sai123 on Oct 24, 2020 5:49:42 GMT
I like my Indian culture and some British culture.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Oct 24, 2020 9:23:13 GMT
Well, this question is too important for me, because I'm the one who thinks that each culture is worth, and each culture is decent, BUT if and only if this culture can exist along with some (or all) other ones.
As long as I stick to culture pluralism I can't say this culture is absolutely good or that is absolutely evil.
If you asked me if I'd like to participate Japanese culture I would certainly answer – hell no!
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Clovis Merovingian
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Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Oct 24, 2020 9:40:20 GMT
Well, this question is too important for me, because I'm the one who thinks that each culture is worth, and each culture is decent, BUT if and only if this culture can exist along with some (or all) other ones. As long as I stick to culture pluralism I can't say this culture is absolutely good or that is absolutely evil. If you asked me if I'd like to participate Japanese culture I would certainly answer – hell no! , what's the problem with the Japs? They seem to me like a very civilized culture steeped in traditions and folklore but producing weird media (that I personally am not a fan of except the last one mentioned) like Anime, Manga, JRPGS, and Kaiju monster movies. I have a generally positive predisposition to them though i'm not obsessed with their culture like many Americans. I find their mythology and folklore pretty interesting. I guess that I wouldn't want to participate in their culture because their educational attitudes are BRUTAL and they have all of these annoying formalities. Also we nuked them and they don't hold it against us. I'd say they're pretty cool. Their food sucks though.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Oct 24, 2020 10:43:42 GMT
Well, this question is too important for me, because I'm the one who thinks that each culture is worth, and each culture is decent, BUT if and only if this culture can exist along with some (or all) other ones. As long as I stick to culture pluralism I can't say this culture is absolutely good or that is absolutely evil. If you asked me if I'd like to participate Japanese culture I would certainly answer – hell no! , what's the problem with the Japs? They seem to me like a very civilized culture steeped in traditions and folklore but producing weird media (that I personally am not a fan of except the last one mentioned) like Anime, Manga, JRPGS, and Kaiju monster movies. I have a generally positive predisposition to them though i'm not obsessed with their culture like many Americans. I find their mythology and folklore pretty interesting. I guess that I wouldn't want to participate in their culture because their educational attitudes are BRUTAL and they have all of these annoying formalities. Also we nuked them and they don't hold it against us. I'd say they're pretty cool. Their food sucks though. Well, it might sound weird, but I can't say I dislike anime, some of their movies, some of their folklore and literature. Among the writers and directors which I try to reread or rewatch there are Koji Suzuki and Akira Kurosawa. Also, there is a big amount of games from Japan that I adore: Metal Gear series, Splatterhouse, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and more. So, what make me be so wary and biased against the Jap culture? I guess living among them. It's something to be unbearable. And their cold blood rules, like those samurai codex, Yakuza etc. It's all so violent. Each time looking at them seem like they're plotting something against you. And having a jap neighbor isn't something to be very pleasure; each time you go nap, you don't know what to expect... (Joking)
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