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GoCubsGo

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13. I don't know if it's necessarily xenophobia.

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:46 PM

Jun 2014

They (at least the older of them) certainly seem to like to protect their own culture, but I never got the impression that they necessarily fear or dislike outsiders. Having an outsider next door is probably fine, just so long as they don't force their otherness on the Japanese culture. At least that's my impression. And, the younger generations strike me as being far more open to non-Japanese culture. Just look at how much they are into all things American.

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