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To: Mannie who wrote (30600)	2/1/2019 2:48:14 PM
From: JimisJim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Wow, Mannie... sounds like a SciFi dystopian movie plot, but I've actually seen a lot of stories and documentaries on it and it makes me sad... my parents had many close friends in Japan (all dead now) and I got to know their kids and occasionally exchange snail mail, email or phone calls... Our CATV does not include NHK, but I've seen snippets of it when visiting friends in Long Beach and Santa Monica a couple hours north of us. My daughter's college roommate was born in Tokyo to an Indonesian mother and Brooklyn jewish father... incredibly gifted musician (as is her mother and older sister), but not Japanese by the definition used by my parents' generation (I mentioned it, but unless seen, hard to believe the flavor of xenophobia older Japanese had)... That bit about stuffed animals going on tours? Very weird... let's see, maybe someone should start a biz or org that hires 65+ people to "escort" those stuffed animals around the world? As mysterious as some aspects of such homogenous societies are, I still can't explain the phenomenon of J Pop or K Pop... One of my wife's teacher friends took a job with the DoD teaching service men and women's kids at an army base in S. Korea... her husband, a good friend of mine, was/is an electrician, HVAC and other certifications but wasn't allowed to work there in those professions... instead, S. Koreans would pay him by the hour to sit and drink tea and simply converse with Koreans so they could practice their English (and since most were older, I suspect there was a bit of isolation at work there, too)... Do you see any similar trends when you make your trips to Vietnam?