Favorite Asian Culture?

[Queequeg]

All of the above are super-national, so India includes Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and Iranian includes Afghan and Baloch.  I purposefully left out some of the most Psellus-y because I expected to get crap for it. 

I'm not sure.  Might vote Chinese. 

[Ideologue]

1. This is racist.

2.  Japanese.  C'mon.  Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, carrier warfare, Godzilla, high definition technology, bukkake films... the list goes on.  What does any other Asian culture offer that remotely compares?

[Admiral Yi]

Over/under on thread hijack on hottest Asians is page and a half.

[Zanza]

I am not sure what exactly makes a culture a favorite. Out of the places I traveled to in Asia so far, I guess I like South East Asia best.

[celedhring]

Over/under on thread hijack on hottest Asians is page and a half.

I actually voted on that rationale, given my general ignorance on the cultural matter. Iran.

[Jacob]

All of the above are super-national, so India includes Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and Iranian includes Afghan and Baloch.  I purposefully left out some of the most Psellus-y because I expected to get crap for it. 

I'm not sure.  Might vote Chinese.

The Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Laotian and Cambodians will surely appreciate being lumped altogether when you give Korea and Japan separate categories

[Eddie Teach]

Hebrew.

[Queequeg]

SE Asia was divided between Island/Peninsular SE Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia) and continental SE Asia.  I think the shared tradition of Buddhism and Indian and Chinese influence makes the region reasonably coherent.  Probably the most problematic grouping here is Tibet, Mongols and Manchus, but I wanted a West/North China Buddhist category and didn't think there would be enough votes to have separate Tibetan and Mongol, Manchu and Siberian groups. 

[Queequeg]

1. This is racist.

2.  Japanese.  C'mon.  Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, carrier warfare, Godzilla, high definition technology, bukkake films... the list goes on.  What does any other Asian culture offer that remotely compares?

China has philosophy, science, literature, religion and history that Japan just doesn't.  There's also substantially more diversity in China. 

[Tamas]

1. This is racist.

2.  Japanese.  C'mon.  Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, carrier warfare, Godzilla, high definition technology, bukkake films... the list goes on.  What does any other Asian culture offer that remotely compares?

China has philosophy, science, literature, religion and history that Japan just doesn't.  There's also substantially more diversity in China.

Ok so now it is Japan's fault that their islands don't spread half a continent wide?

[celedhring]

Mainland Chinese cinema is really meh. Even once vibrant Honk Kong has been dying since the reincorporation. Only Taiwan does interesting stuff anymore.

Korean and Japanese filmmaking is way more interesting.

[Valmy]

My favs are the Turkic people and the Indians.  Went with the Turks just because.

[derspiess]

None of them particularly interest me.  I like Vietnamese food, as well as some Japanese and Americanized Chinese food, but that's about as far as my interests go.

[Ideologue]

1. This is racist.

2.  Japanese.  C'mon.  Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, carrier warfare, Godzilla, high definition technology, bukkake films... the list goes on.  What does any other Asian culture offer that remotely compares?

China has philosophy, science, literature, religion and history that Japan just doesn't.  There's also substantially more diversity in China.

Philosophy?  OK libarts.

Science?  How many carriers did Chiang field?

Religion?  Sure they do.  Just ask the thirty million victims of the Taiping Rebellion.

History?  You could say the same thing about Britain and Russia.  Being an island nation has its advantages.

Japan is effectively a Western nation thanks to an early embrace of industrialization, and then forcing us to bomb that industry till they changed their culture into something with recognizable moral values.  Japan is the most like us, and hence Japan is my favorite.

[Jacob]

I'm quite fond of Japan, but people like Ide and Lettow does take the lustre off a bit.

Luckily, I can appreciate each of these cultures on its own merits without the need to compare and rank them