Opinions, please ♥

[kaoticwords]

In some of the few posts I wrote lately I talked about a National Congress about Japan in which I'm going to participate. The tittle of my paper is "Individualism Behind Community and Stereotypes".

To sum it up, I talk about the occidental vision of Japan and how under all the great mass of people going to their jobs in crowded trains, the importance of being number one at school, university and in your job, and a deeply-rooted sense of community, real life shows a significant number of people who don't fit this sketch of life. I'll talk about hikikomori and I'll also talk about artistic demonstrations that shows the individualism that lies in the subtext (Norweggian Wood's characters, Minekura's characters and the main characs of Dolls).

Uff, I still find difficult to put some things in English...

The thing is that I'm very interested in your opinion on the matter. I'm not going to ask you how do you see Japanese culture 'cause I know most of you are very fond of it and know it deeply ♥ but I'd really like to know what do you think people in general think about Japanese life?

Comments

[airienn.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I think Japanese society is full of contradictions, because of the traditional (and nationalist) upbringing of its people and the disagreeing attitude of their youth nowadays... just as any other country, really xD

But I guess most people's vision of Japan and Japanese is the stereotypical one (damn, I can't spell, need my sugar to function DX!) of the always crowded streets with neon signs&adds, the intercity monorail, the cosplayers at Harajuku Bridge, the sêrafuku(sailor uniform)-wearing teenagers and their love letters, the shintoist temples and (one of the things I love the most) the "mysterious" geisha world.
And and and... well, the average statistic of short people with photo-cams and glasses, recurrent(?) in many jokes xD

...no more fuel, can't think (much less type) properly xD gonna sleep now
chu! <3

[kaoticwords.livejournal.com]

Sankyou!

Just what I thought :D
// http://pics.livejournal.com/kaoticwords/pic/0002p92q/s640x480 // -but I really needed more opinions cause I don't want to talk from my only point of view, so thank you~


Now you're honorably included in the results of my survey <3
(el msn también ha resultado ser un magnífico medio para este tipo de sondeos y resulta que lo de los uniformes colegiales es una de las imágenes más recurrentes XD).

*gives Airienn delicious cookies* ♥

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ah! el link a la info del congreso por si estás interesada ;)
http://www.unizar.es/aej/novedade/index.htm

[megamaniaco.livejournal.com]

A ver...la sociedad japonesa, básicamente, ha logrado hacer suyo gran parte de lo que los occidentales trajeron a este tradicionalista pais.
Y como se entiende eso? Un pais tradicionalista absorbiendo cosas completamente extrañas, siendo casi xenofobos en algunos comportamientos...no es fácil de explicar como lo han logrado.
Mi teoria: A pesar de ser -tan- tradicionalistas, el dinero manda. Y el dinero NO está en las tradiciones, por mucho que duela. Que se pueden mantener como algo túristico y tal? Si. Incluso puede que de puertas adentro todavia se conserve alguna. Pero aparte de eso...nada de nada.

Las tradiciones han sido apartadas del mundo público por esa cultura pop que tantos odian/quieren.

Y ya, que es tarde y no doy pa mas XD

Excelsior!

[kaoticwords.livejournal.com]

Muchas gracias! *g*

Pero aunque parezca increible, ciertas tradiciones siguen estando muy arraigadas a nivel general en la sociedad actual, te sorprenderías (a pesar de toda la cultura pop, que suele durar lo que dura la adolescencia XD). Cuando se pasa a formar parte del mundo adulto la presión y la responsabilidad llegan a aplastar a más de uno... Contradicción en su estado más puro ;)

*deliciosas galletas virtuales tb para ti* :3