What stimulated it? What makes it the chosen reaction to whatever it is a reaction to? How does it fit in with various cultures? Is it compatible with most cultures? Why? Do you like it? Do you find it adaptable or detrimental personally? Do you think it may rival religion in the Asian culture? I think it might. I think it is a ceremony without content, a ritual, but I also think that in Japan their religion IS ritual and not a figure or God or content . . their God is the ritual, the ceremony. Is the cuteness a content or a ceremony? I believe it is a ceremony. ??? Maybe not. ?
2006-07-04 21:13:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Being really frank... This whole thing kinda freaks me out...
Looking and dressing like a child, seems to turn ppl on...
It seems like the japanese have a affiliation to pedophelia...
I think its perversion..!!
I disagree with you when u say its doesnt justify arrested emotional or intellectual development...
I think it has to do with something about their refusal to grow up and accept responsibility and reality...
I saw a piece on CNN, young girls and women, stand like small children; they stand pigeon-toed, shoulders slightly scrunched up so as to appear smaller, and tilt their heads on one side or tuck it in their chest, wear frilly, baby clothes, socks, bibs and all, tie their hair in 2 ponytails........!!!!
They try not only dress like a child but act a child too....its freaky!!
This "style" or "culture" will defiantely contribute to the infantilization and disempowerment of women...
Young women dressed as children will only hurt attempts for women to move into the grown-up world of politics and business as equals to men..
I read a theory called "Chic Theory" that says it forces the body to rearrange itself according to social expectations and thus such women run the risk of being shaped into weak, childlike women..not just physically, but emotionally as well...
I dont in anyway, mean to insult Japanese people or culture...
I am sorry if u are Japanese and are hurt by what i said, but you asked for an opinion, and i am giving u a frank one..
Ps - I have also answered a similiar question u asked before..its the same answer too.
2006-07-04 23:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by weirdnik 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for asking this... I didn't know it was a trend, I just have seen it with new girlfriends of my son's. Girls that they don't want to be with for long... I've asked them what's the deal? And they say it's just that they're part cuteness club, or it's the new cuteness culture, (which lasts about 1 minute in my book)...And apparently only about 2 minutes in theirs. It is totally detrimental, these girls are like what Kate Moss used to be with Heroin Chic...Skinny beautiful vapid knock kneed (and for #1 son totally stacked)girl women who can't make a decision to save their life Is it Because of Lindsey/Hillary?Mary Kate/Ashley?/Paris?/Nicole?
Or is it just total vapidity
2006-07-05 06:55:07 · answer #2 · answered by Sidoney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuteness culture' is very pretentious.come on.....smilling and being cute all the time.I dont think cute' trend (i called it the Hello Kitty trend) is compatible with the western cultures.yes,their religion are very based on ritual (Shinto).
2006-07-05 06:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by snupea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋