Friday, November 30, 2007

Bart Hits Homer With A Chair

Japan: "laugh ok"



One of the positive thoughts that crowd in the minds of those who leave Japan will not have to regret is that no television program, or do not have to worry about losing a few interesting episode of their favorite soap opera ... as I said, the Japanese TV often finds the most vulgar stupidity.

For the umpteenth time this year, today I ended up Waratte Iitomo.
Led by a controversial person by the name of Tamora (nothing to do with a certain savage queen of Shakespeare), born Kazuyoshi Morita, the show is an epitome of fun sexist and politically incorrect. Just like what the average Italian. But in Japan are really ahead - or back, depending on your point of view. A guessing game is in a group of six transsexuals put to public shame - you only see the heads emerge from a color panel, the order of expenditure Each of these has had to pay to get the desired aesthetic. At the end of the game, many of the competitors will - of course - grossly wrong estimates, and then covering with ridicule those who have chosen to act as a "guinea pig" in this trivial rendez-vous finesettimanale (dedicated to the families, take note).



From the viewpoint of oriental studies, it is rather interesting to note the special position occupied by the practice of cross-dressing, and before that certain figures from the controversial sexual identity, culture and in Japanese society from Prince Genji to the present day.
The process of acceptance and integration of "different" is perhaps more advanced in some versi, proprio in questo Paese, in cui la xenofobia e il recente aumento dell'onda anti-gaijin si confondono dietro la maschera formale del tatemae-honne.

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