エイサア祭り, Cultures from OkiNawa

Eisaa Festival, Taisho, Osaka_ JaPaN

Japanese-Non-Japanese

Nationality is no more than an artificial concept that can be changed to include or exclude different groups of people by legal reform.
The fact is that there is a considerable gap between what the law defines as a Japanese national and what the average "Japanese" believes to be a Japanese in terms of "common sense"_

InTerPreTatioN of CulTuRes _II

A society's culture consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members. Culture is not a material phenomenon; it does not consist of things, people, behaviour or emotions. It is rather an organization of things. It is the form of things that people have in mind, their models for percieving, relating, and otherwise interpreting them_

W. Goodenough, 1957

STeReoThyPes of a Culture

NaNba, OSaKa_ JaPan

InTerPreTaTion of CulTures

... Culture should be retained as a convinient term for designating the clusters of common concepts, emotions, and practices that arise when people interact regulary_


Chao Phraya, BaNgKoK_ THaiLaNd

NaTioNaLiSm Structuring Influence and Emotional Power in the Modern World

Nationalism is not only a matter of politics, but of culture and personal identity.
The discourse of nations is couched especially in terms of passion and identification_
Nationalism has emotional power partely because it helps to make us who we are, inspires artists and composers and give us a link with history, and thus with immortality_

The OutSider's View

A fish is unlikely to discover water as long as it is surrounded by it_