Why Japanese annoy Westerners and why Westerners look down on Japanese and cast ridicule? Through Tuesday's lecture and reading the articles that Rab sent to us, I realized that Japanese have been annoying Westerners and they have wanted Japanese to notice it and admire themselves. (Perhaps, Rab purposely tried to provoke us to react.) Moreover, according to section mates' blogs, interestingly, Japanese like to pretend to notice and reflect on it. I want to know those relationship between western and others and self-consciousness of Japanese.
Anyway, as to political attitude of Japanese, It is sure that Japanese people don't join to political movements. For example, a voter turnout of the election of the Governor of Tokyo on Sunday stood at 46%. The attitude should be change in order to improve the benefit of Democracy because Japan adopts it. Yet, the notion of democracy is not innate in Japan. It was imported (was partly forced to imported) from Westerners. So, the notion may have been indigenized in Japan, and that is not necessary bad and criticized. What Japanese youngers should do is not completery pursue Western but try to build Japanese-democracy.
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