Comments on: State-sponsored Cute: Kawaii Ambassadors http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frilly_Guest http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/comment-page-1/#comment-202361 Frilly_Guest Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:58:00 +0000 http://www.japannewbie.com/?p=2592#comment-202361 Umm...Lolita is a nickname for Dolores, and I'm quite sure that it's been used long before the book and fashion ever came about. Also, the book and the fashion (and the genre of animation) developed during different times and places, long before the internet was widely used. If you care anything about Japanese culture, you've to understand that the Japanese don't view things the same way as most Westerners do. For one, cuteness is a bigger factor in culture than it is in the West. While no one really knows how the name for the fashion came about (this is due to the fashion beginning as a street based culture, not a music or club based one like most Western subcultures are, such as punk and goth...it's hard to document things like that), there are some people who believe that it's just a made up English word only used in Japan (wasei-eigo). Coming up with names because they may "sound cute" or for other reasons, without actually putting too much meaning or research in them in fairly common in Japan (heck, even their own language is like that).  Umm…Lolita is a nickname for Dolores, and I’m quite sure that it’s been used long before the book and fashion ever came about. Also, the book and the fashion (and the genre of animation) developed during different times and places, long before the internet was widely used. If you care anything about Japanese culture, you’ve to understand that the Japanese don’t view things the same way as most Westerners do. For one, cuteness is a bigger factor in culture than it is in the West. While no one really knows how the name for the fashion came about (this is due to the fashion beginning as a street based culture, not a music or club based one like most Western subcultures are, such as punk and goth…it’s hard to document things like that), there are some people who believe that it’s just a made up English word only used in Japan (wasei-eigo). Coming up with names because they may “sound cute” or for other reasons, without actually putting too much meaning or research in them in fairly common in Japan (heck, even their own language is like that). 

]]> By: Me http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/comment-page-1/#comment-202359 Me Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:04:00 +0000 http://www.japannewbie.com/?p=2592#comment-202359 So, you hate it when women dress elegantly and cutely instead of sexy? I hope you realize how completely stupid that is. So, you hate it when women dress elegantly and cutely instead of sexy?

I hope you realize how completely stupid that is.

]]> By: Lilly http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/comment-page-1/#comment-202358 Lilly Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:03:00 +0000 http://www.japannewbie.com/?p=2592#comment-202358 *I highly doubt most of them have even heard of the BOOK That's what I meant to say. lol Seriously, the fashion is far more popular than the book there, I doubt most people have even heard of the book there. *I highly doubt most of them have even heard of the BOOK

That’s what I meant to say. lol Seriously, the fashion is far more popular than the book there, I doubt most people have even heard of the book there.

]]> By: Anon http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/comment-page-1/#comment-202357 Anon Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:01:00 +0000 http://www.japannewbie.com/?p=2592#comment-202357 Do you even realize that Lolita is a nickname for a girl? And do you realize that this fashion was invented in JAPAN? I highly doubt most of them have even HEARD of the fashion. Is it really so hard for people like you to accept that a cute fashion is just that, a cute fashion, without anything sick about it? Why can't you just accept the fact that a woman can dress how she wants and there is nothing sexual about it? You need to learn about the fashion. Badly. Do your research. Do you even realize that Lolita is a nickname for a girl? And do you realize that this fashion was invented in JAPAN? I highly doubt most of them have even HEARD of the fashion.

Is it really so hard for people like you to accept that a cute fashion is just that, a cute fashion, without anything sick about it? Why can’t you just accept the fact that a woman can dress how she wants and there is nothing sexual about it? You need to learn about the fashion. Badly. Do your research.

]]> By: Jaim2 http://www.japannewbie.com/2010/01/14/state-sponsored-cute-kawaii-ambassadors/comment-page-1/#comment-202337 Jaim2 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:25:00 +0000 http://www.japannewbie.com/?p=2592#comment-202337 Perhaps more honest would be an old angry Japanese male salaryman who talks about hating foreigners. That would be the real experience of a non-Japanese in Japan Perhaps more honest would be an old angry Japanese male salaryman who talks about hating foreigners. That would be the real experience of a non-Japanese in Japan

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