As the Berlin mercury hit 33 centigrade, we went to play guerilla badminton in the minty-coolest place in town: down in the Kottbusser Tor U-bahn station.
The comment on the Japanese style came from Hisae, who reckoned the comment had been generated by web translation, so stilted did it sound.
As for avoiding cultural imperialism, I think it's more important to learn the Japanese way of being than to learn the Japanese language, although of course they overlap. Most missionaries are fluent in the languages of the nations they visit, but unwilling to adopt the ways of being they find there.
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Date: 2005-05-28 03:14 pm (UTC)As for avoiding cultural imperialism, I think it's more important to learn the Japanese way of being than to learn the Japanese language, although of course they overlap. Most missionaries are fluent in the languages of the nations they visit, but unwilling to adopt the ways of being they find there.