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Philip Burgess wrote:
Gregory's blog thingy tone doesn't look favorably on Nihonjinron. I have experienced some of us who like Gregory where the apple of their eye is Japan and the Japanese people...
I am not that involved into the Japanese or Japan where Nihonjinron effects my view of them, my training or matters to me. I would say I am respectful of what they call theirs and what I call mine.
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But you do seem to be making the same mistake that believers in nihonjinron are making: to look on "the Japanese people" as a monolithic entity, to ascribe attitudes and behaviors to "the Japanese".