i can't see what is the cultural difference...about menstruation
I didn't say either that it made any sense (to me it doesn't:-) or that I agreed with it (I don't:-). In fact, what I wrote said (in a hopefully "polite" way, but one that was probably easy to misinterpret) it likely wasn't even
Disney's real reason for non-distribution.
The subject does indeed touch on some facts though. They are simply "the way it is" ...there's no
should nor
shouldn't nor
agree nor
disagree about them. As far as I know there's no disagreement at all about them:
1) It's in the FAQ
2) Disney has "stated" this is its reason for non-distribution
3) A higher proportion of the U.S. population than in most other cultures is uncomfortable with mentions of "menstruation"
i can't see what is the cultural difference...about...being outside without shoes
In Japanese culture, it's very common (but not universal) to judge anyone being outside without their shoes on as extremely embarrasing, rather like being outside naked in many other cultures. (The commonness of that value is simply a fact, one I neither agree with or disagree with.) It's important because it was used by the filmmakers, who assumed viewers would have this background knowledge when they created a whole segment of the film that doesn't "make sense" without it.
My point is
not that such a value judgment is either a good thing or a bad thing, either in Japan or in the U.S., or that such a value should be changed or imported anywhere. My point is that viewers who don't have that bit of background knowledge won't "understand" a whole portion of the film.
etc.
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As a more general response, I would point out that i] just because some cultural value "doesn't make sense" or "isn't shared by the local culture" doesn't mean nobody in some other culture ever postulated it, ii] opining that a certain cultural value exists somewhere is
vastly different from opining that value should be applauded or propagated, and iii] trying to guess what someone else was thinking does
not mean the guesser thinks the same thing. Speaking of cross-cultural understanding, I wish what I wrote had been read in that light.
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yusef-ghanima
9 years ago
it's not just you, many posts here don't make any sense. so let's get it directly, if you see a child barefoot outside her house what would YOU think? i'm not japanese but i understand that if i saw that i would think that the child is either poor from lower classes and many of them have bad manners, so my view will reflect badly on the whole family of the child, which make the japanese father reaction understood although not acceptable but would be common in my culture. or i would think the child is from rural background which is close to being poor (although i'm a socialist and a sociologist.) in your case i think mostly you will think the same, you might have one additional variation like parents are heppies which will reflect badly on the family if you are conservative only.
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sloopydrew
8 years ago
i'm not japanese but i understand that if i saw that i would think that the child is either poor from lower classes and many of them have bad manners, so my view will reflect badly on the whole family of the child
Wow ... you're offensively judgmental and narrow-minded. If you didn't claim to be a Socialist, I would think you're a Donald Trump supporter.
http://www.juicycerebellum.com/movie.htmMovies, movies, politics and movies.
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yusef-ghanima
9 years ago
another important explanation is the father worried about his daughter if she's used to getting out barefoot she might hurt her self, i know a man whose father only slapped him once when he did something dangerous that could have killed him (the child). i think many fathers from many cultures would think the same about their children going out without shoes.
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