Japanese Culture

These questions are really difficult for me to answer. In other words, I'm sure that I don't know every aspect of Japanese culture. Maybe this sounds strange to foreigners. I bet they wonder, "Why? You are Japanese, aren't you?"

I'm not really interested in anime, manga, Harajuku fashion, Shinto shrines, and temples…and I'm interested in foreign cultures. But I should learn my country's culture at least enough to understand what foreigners are talking about before I begin to learn foreign ones.

But I think the same situation happens to many Japanese, especially young people. I know many young people who like anime, but they aren't familiar with Japanese traditional culture. We don't go to shrines and temples expect for some ceremonies. Similarly, we usually don't wear "kimono" and most young people cannot even put on "kimono" by yourself themselves. I think what we call "culture" should be what we do in our daily life lives. So I feel strange when people say something like kimonos are a big part of Japanese culture. That image of Japan isn't real Japan. It's natural for a country's culture to change because the world is changing. So many countries are also getting losing their own culture. But in Japan's case, the reason is not only new era but also luck of patriotism our culture is changing not only because the times are changing, but also our sense of patriotism is changing. Japanese people are don't tend not to treasure our own culture. What do you think about this topic?

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Great post! Other people made corrections to your post, so I just focused on punctuation, re-arranging sentences to help the piece flow better, and clarified some areas (based on my interpretation of your material).

I agree with most of what you're saying! In my opinion, I don't think a country "loses" their cultural identity...I think culture just changes and some things get pushed from the foreground to the background. It also depends on where you live (West Coast vs East Coast or South vs North). I've been asked questions about American culture and history that I have no idea about! Either because I don't have an interest in it (I know almost nothing about American football!) or because it's not relevant to my everyday life.

Japanese culture

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was nervous when I saw how long this was, but you did so well that it was super easy to correct! ^_^

I often hear people spout wrong assumptions about the Japanese culture and lifestyle based off of anime or outdated stereotypes, I imagine that it's frustrating, so try not to mind the weaboos haha

I agree to an extent that culture should be defined by the way people live from day to day, but I think the preservation or remnants of older or more traditional customs is an important part of the culture as well. Even if you don't go to Shrines and the like often, visiting them for even only events is still something that is different than in other cultures, and though kimono's are rarely worn they are a beautiful and unique creation of Japan- 

Because of improvements in global transport and communications (internet/airplanes/etc.) the world is currently becoming universalized, I think it's somewhat tragic that so much of the worlds cultural variety is being lost.

So I think it's important for countries to preserve and value their history - even if it's in little ways like visiting a shrine on New Year's :)   and it's equally important to take interest in other cultures as you do

Those are basically my thoughts on the matter ^_^