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别跟我说你懂日本
介绍谈到日本时，我们谈些什么？！拘谨的日本人其实最搞笑；日本才是礼仪之邦；为何那么多人青睐卧轨自杀；情人旅馆是怎么回事；日本女中学生的裙子为什么那么短，还能有多短？何谓“我慢”的文化……
这里，有日本生活的全景展现，这里有夸张而且搞怪的日本男人，和好笑又善良的日本女人，还有在日本吃穿住用行等等风俗……
既熟悉又陌生、既喜欢又不喜欢、向往、隔膜、羡慕、嫉妒、恨……
从来没有一个国家像日本一样，让我们这样敏感……
这里，有日本生活的全景展现，这里有夸张而且搞怪的日本男人，和好笑又善良的日本女人，还有在日本吃穿住用行等等风俗……
既熟悉又陌生、既喜欢又不喜欢、向往、隔膜、羡慕、嫉妒、恨……
从来没有一个国家像日本一样，让我们这样敏感……
232 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2010
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August 21, 2022
- The book is written by a Chinese expat living in Japan for a dozen years. It's about his attempt of understanding Japan through a Chinese perspective
- Perhaps the most fascinating thing for me is, while the book is about Japan, it tells me more about the author than Japan: that despite living in Japan for more than a dozen years, the author is still rather fundamentally Chinese and has not assimilated Japanese culture. It's evident by the short paragraphs in definite tone trying to explain a rather nuanced cultural concept. Compare that to Fox's "Watching the English" - a Brit, fully knowing British culture and trying to explain British culture, never use simple paragraphs and definite tone but rather often posting more questions than answers: it's not that Fox doesn't know the answer, she does, but it's because if one understand one's culture deep enough, the answer is very nuanced
- The author began with many common themes in Japanese culture, that they don't want to cause "complications", there are word games in everyday lives, that many Japanese are psychological unstable and vent in strange ways
- Many of the author's point are not Japan-specific: it actually tells me more about my own culture. For instance he finds it interesting that Japanese loves to follow trends (not Japan specific); that Japanese love black people (do they?) because things like athletics and Obama, and it's evident that Japanese porn often feature black actors (on top of my head I can at least think a dozen inches reasons why this is not Japan specific); that Japanese porn often feature bondage because the society's internal hatred towards female's ability to seduce the strongest male (err...)
- Perhaps the most fascinating thing for me is, while the book is about Japan, it tells me more about the author than Japan: that despite living in Japan for more than a dozen years, the author is still rather fundamentally Chinese and has not assimilated Japanese culture. It's evident by the short paragraphs in definite tone trying to explain a rather nuanced cultural concept. Compare that to Fox's "Watching the English" - a Brit, fully knowing British culture and trying to explain British culture, never use simple paragraphs and definite tone but rather often posting more questions than answers: it's not that Fox doesn't know the answer, she does, but it's because if one understand one's culture deep enough, the answer is very nuanced
- The author began with many common themes in Japanese culture, that they don't want to cause "complications", there are word games in everyday lives, that many Japanese are psychological unstable and vent in strange ways
- Many of the author's point are not Japan-specific: it actually tells me more about my own culture. For instance he finds it interesting that Japanese loves to follow trends (not Japan specific); that Japanese love black people (do they?) because things like athletics and Obama, and it's evident that Japanese porn often feature black actors (on top of my head I can at least think a dozen inches reasons why this is not Japan specific); that Japanese porn often feature bondage because the society's internal hatred towards female's ability to seduce the strongest male (err...)
March 2, 2023
绝好的卫生间读物
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