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Haaton Prime wrote:

To all willing to exact revenge - perhaps you will be a good warm-up for my set of Alstroemerian RMB moderators, of which occupy the RO list.

Iwaku’s ROs are better because they have this really cool guy that does polls sometimes and I just think he’s cool and he’s not a furry and he’s also tep delegate and actually the best delegate they’ve ever had and so much better than you and also he is cool did I mention that he’s cool

A single cherry blossom wrote:

Iwaku’s ROs are better because they have this really cool guy that does polls sometimes and I just think he’s cool and he’s not a furry and he’s also tep delegate and actually the best delegate they’ve ever had and so much better than you and also he is cool did I mention that he’s cool

none of these words are in the Bible

Wabi-Sabi wrote:

How is everyone's weekend going?

Where I am it has finally cooled down compared to just a few days ago, so it feels like I can breathe again! 😌

I’m finishing up a visit with family :D

Gonna get some food, then pack a bit, then be back home in time for dinner~

We've got another heat way but it will end by Wednesday and the usual summer thunderstorms return.

Haaton Prime wrote:

I’m finishing up a visit with family :D

Gonna get some food, then pack a bit, then be back home in time for dinner~

What did you end up having for dinner? (In case you can't tell, I am hungry!~)

Tippy golden flowery orange pekoe wrote:

Also getting cooler here! By which I mean it's been 97F and occasionally rainy instead of a constant searing 103F. Whatever, I'll take it.

Stay cool and hydrated. And don't melt pls. 🫠

I have a poll idea, best raider who participated in the raid

Poll Raider wrote:

I have a poll idea, best raider who participated in the raid

That’s a big poll :p

Ankuran wrote:

Our Supreme and Glorious Leader Kyary Pamyu Pamyu of course.

I don't know.. Luck is pretty cool too.

⛩️ Random Japan Trivia ⛩️

A mon is an emblem roughly equivalent to a western coat-of-arms, used to identify clans, individuals, and organizations. The mon of clan Sanada, the Rokumon-sen, is six coins -- the price to cross Sanzu no Kawa (roughly equivalent to the Styx). This signified the clan's preparedness to pay the ultimate price at any time. Badass!

Against Orientalism, For A More Holistic Understanding of Japan

It isn't that uncommon to see chuds proclaim Japan to be some haven of ethnic nationalism - a singular, monolithic culture resistant to the depredations of self-criticism seen in the West. It isn't that uncommon in popular culture to see the fetishisation of Japanese history - that of noble, honourable warrior poets living in a mystical, secluded and dare I say, profoundly superstitious land.

This, of course, is completely detached from reality. It is an absurd mindset about a culture, doubly so if we apply that same mindset to other cultures.

If we talk about America as a singular entity, her people linked together by a chain of greatness, with everyone hailing from the pilgrims of yore, to the cowboys and later the enterprising industrialists, we would rightfully be mocked. Another example: and if we talk about Germany having one people, one race, to live in their living space from then to now, and to the end of time, well...

I would like to refer to a theory posited by Prof. A. Dirk Moses. The theory states that instead of thinking of genocide as a largely apolitical event done for its own sake, we should rather consider such acts and the violent societies they are based upon to be extensions of Permanent Security. That is to say, the Permanent Securitisation of the other. One only needs to recall the 14 words, or concepts such as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to see the rhetoric of Permanent Security.

Why am I bringing this up? Well, to view Japanese culture as a permanent fixture, and to see dissenting dialogues within Japanese culture as a corruption of that naïve Japanese culture, is the logic of Permanent Security.

For this reason, if we are to discuss Japanese history and culture, we must be aware of the fluid nature of all cultures. We must endeavour to include other perspectives - from migrant workers in Japan, to minority ethnic groups such as the Ainu. We must view history as dynamic - such that its ramifications affect us to this day, even as we construct our understanding of history from the present.

I do not intend to run for the Ministry of Culture. But rather, I seek to implore that the Minister, whoever they are, remains conscious of the dangers of Orientalism. I hope for an ethnography of all Japans, as opposed to a retelling of the dominant narrative.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
I don't know my rice, how do I answer this poll?!

Anti-Grape Revolutionary Front wrote:

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
I don't know my rice, how do I answer this poll?!

that's why I made the poll without a question.. it's just a statement with answers to make things confusing.

⛩️ Random Japan Trivia ⛩️

In Japan, there are no official birth certificates or death certificates -- at least, not in the way westerners are familiar with. Japanese households -- typically defined as a married couple and their unmarried children -- are required by law to keep track of a koseki touhon, or Comprehensive Copy of Family Register. Changes in the household (ie) -- births, deaths, divorces, adoptions, changes in nationality, registered domiciles (honseki), and more -- are recorded by that household and reported to the local city office. A koseki shouhon, or Selected Copy of Family Register, is as the name implies: the koseki records pertaining to a specific individual, rather than a household. Only Japanese nationals have koseki; should a foreigner marry into a Japanese household, they'll be little more than a footnote attached to their spouse's entry.

The origins of the koseki system date back to the 6th century and was influenced by the government of ancient China. The modern koseki system first began to emerge in 1872 after the Meiji Restoration, which made significant changes to the previous iteration and was the first time citizens were required to have family names, but koseki wouldn't apply only to households (as opposed to the entire family) until 1948. Family registers can be found in other East Asian countries as well, either currently or historically, including China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and North Korea; South Korea abolished its system of family registry in 2008.