Clovis Merovingian
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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
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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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Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
Elder
Posts: 2,689
Likes: 1,757
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 Oct 24, 2020 10:55:14 GMT
, 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) You've lived among the Japs? What was that like? How much of your last statement is a joke? I'm not a PC sensitive kind of guy when it comes to call out bullshite in other cultures so fire away.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Oct 24, 2020 14:34:06 GMT
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) You've lived among the Japs? What was that like? How much of your last statement is a joke? I'm not a PC sensitive kind of guy when it comes to call out bullshite in other cultures so fire away. No, never had a jap neighbor. I concluded about that "living among" from many other resources like literature, news, non-fiction movies, etc. Surely, they I might be confused by those resources, so, it wasn't a strong argument of it. I should've said "to be alert somehow while living along with them" instead. How much? I don't know. Honestly. It's so uneasy to deal with ones who are almost saints when it concerns the work, because I believe Japanese are good if not the best intelligent workers, yet their actions are happened to be unexpected.
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