Last Bill Translation

[drainer at mpinet.net]

 I think that the closer you are to the Kanto region,  the further you are
away from Japan in so many other ways.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Larson" <pete at bulbrecords.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: RE: Last Bill Translation


> Well, I must say that there is always the underlying basics of American
> culture and everything and my fellow countrymen do. While we are all
> individuals, we cannot help but be american because we were born, raised
and
> educated here. Your statement partly assumes that people who grow up in
> other environments don't have this. People are always shaped and directed
by
> their environments, the Japanese are not special in this regard. While I
> think that Japanese society likes to purport this idea of themselves being
> somehow completely different from the rest of the world, I believe that
they
> are only unique in the way that every single culture, society or community
> on earth is.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of Made in DNA
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:34 AM
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Last Bill Translation
>
>
> I have torespectfully disagree. There is ALWAYS the underlying basics of
> Japanese culture in everything they do. It is so a part of who they are,
> that as a whole, they cannot help but be Japanese. Individuals are a
> different case altogether. They are as sporadic and different as any
> other individual, but even then they do it within a very marked Japanese
> way.
>
> drainer at mpinet.net wrote:
>
> >  I think that Japan is so dynamic that the terms "Japanese culture" or
> even
> >"Japanese identity" have become rather problematic.
> >
> >  Anyone else feel this way?
> >
> >-df
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jean Pierre Kellams" <tetsuo at technolustomega.net>
> >To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> >Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:35 PM
> >Subject: RE: Last Bill Translation
> >
> >
> >As for why these three films are floating around all at once, I would
> >venture to say it was just a side-effect of gross national cool. The
> >more Japanese culture gets absorbed and engrained in the US, the more US
> >cultural products will reflect this influence.
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