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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (235487)	6/2/2005 12:45:07 PM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1572746

There's a lot of culture that people want to see preserved just for the sake of it. It defines uniqueness, identity, a sense of belonging. Language, as you mentioned, is part of it. Agreed with most of that. I would think it would be good to get rid of the aspects of various cultures that are of the "us this way, them not this way" mentality, however. I think inter-racial marriage and intercultural marriage are great. Theoretically it should be possible to have culture based on your geography and not on ethnicity. In other words, someone that moves to Japan and lives there for 30 years and acts "Japanese" could/should be treated like a Japanese. That's not the case today, but if it were the case, it wouldn't destroy Japanese culture (the immigrant could be actively participating), but it requires the Japanese to get rid of the idea of gaijin (foreigner) who are INHERENTLY different than them. Maybe in 300 years, who knows? Language, of course, is a major barrier to considering foreigners to "be the same as me". Sure, lines are going to be blurred as cultures clash and intermix, and as interracial and inter-ethnic marriages become more common. But who said we have to speed that process along by declaring every nation a "melting pot"? Or subjecting every nation to some global government? No one.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (235487)	6/2/2005 1:24:21 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1572746

Come on, guys. I have been living in such a "melting pot" since I was removed from my Swedish background at age 12. Exposed to and living in Danish, American, Japanese and German cultures since then and recently part of the time in Italy, I have not become a total wacko yet. A couple of languages got stuck with me on the way and hopefully also a cosmopolitan approach to all that Nationalist dodo quite often being the true poison to our lives. Not so bad a price to pay for a slight feeling of sometimes being rootless... Taro