(jibunsagasinotabi) (2024)
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About your question why japanese like german things, I guess its because of multiple reasons:
somewhat similar politics and histories from across the globe. starting from the second world war the germans won against their enemies the french and then lost to the world, the japanese won against the coreans and theb lost against the world. then the rebuilding efforts in both countries were insane, dragging them both to the top-spots on the world gdp-wise and whatevs.
somewhat similar cultures that highlight personal effort, dedication (to craft, the workplace, the family and community etc.), and such.
they just love the germans. a user? said this on a forum “Finally, Japanese just love Germany. They (we) have learned many things like constitutions, medicals and chemicals from Germany. They also love German products like BMW automobiles, artificial hearts, etc. and believe Germans are hard-working, honest and industrious. (Personally, I also rely on German middle-wares).”
I personally believe that the influence of english is significantly higher than the influence of most other languages/culture throughout most of the globe, just because of well… “american imperialism.” but it is difficult for that to be visible from the inside. --> my theory being they love english more than german but for example picking a name you can “just pick a german word” for a name and since no-one actually speaks or understands it, it doesnt hurt the story. If you’ve read my other text-wall you know how thats untrue.
But it seems very strange for me too. In Corea there is a saying “a foreigner with black hair” when they are surprised when they see a “non-blond”-european/american. When the chinese get their heads out of their asses(1) about their 5’000 years of culture then they fall into fascination with europe as well…
I havent consumed much media from other asian spheres and am unable to think about this much more today, so I will leave the world a just slightly more (knowledgable) place than before. thank you for attending my Ted-talk.
(1) I just want to mention, that I am very much fascinated and in love with, traditional, pre-communist-revolution chinese culture, Cambodian Culture from its golden age 1960-1975, as well as some of Japanese and corean culture. it is just such an active corner of the world for all that little that I hear of it every year.
I lean quite far left generally but those “communists” have had quite the bad influence on the good of the people, but its as they say, you cant be unhappy if you’ve starved/been killed to death.