This is a conundrum. To say we must maintain and love difference, and then to go to Japan and dress and act as a Japanese person is an example of "The liberal Yin is the fascist Yang". While we enjoy the change, we are inflicting saminess on our host. Reinforcing any nationalist or supremacist prejudices. Denying them the very difference that we advocate. Boring them even. Our feast may be starving and suffocating them.
How do we know that the inhabitants of a Tokyo subway are not pining for loud football fans with beer cans to really shake things up? Of course they aren't! But they'll never really know if we destroy the finest export we can offer a host - our difference.
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The liberal Yin is the fascist Yang?
Date: 2010-01-12 08:24 am (UTC)How do we know that the inhabitants of a Tokyo subway are not pining for loud football fans with beer cans to really shake things up? Of course they aren't! But they'll never really know if we destroy the finest export we can offer a host - our difference.