Favorite Asian Culture?

[CountDeMoney]

You mean it was a diverse place prior to the Pleistocene Age.  Numbnuts.

What do you know about Chinese diversity?

Eat me with duck sauce, Xiacob, you condescending fuckstick.

[Josquius]

China is more diverse of course but don't just shrug off Japan as homogenous. There is quite a lot of diversity in Japan too. And that's even after a century of governments actively trying to kill it.

[CountDeMoney]

There's a substantial difference in regional diversity, where ethnic groups are enclaved by history, poverty or politics, but that doesnt mean it's societally diverse.

But since Xiacob and the Cossacktard are now publishing Chinese Diversity Quarterly, we'll just leave the disussion to the experts.

[Gups]

Uighurs4eva!

I live near an unbelievably good Uighur restaurant

Silk Road?

Been meaning to go there for ever

[Lettow77]

Tyr, what's all this then? Even in Kansai, which puffs itself up so much as a sort of anti-Kanto, Japan's regional diversity isn't so much of a much. I'd ascribe more difference to Texans and South Carolinians, and they are peas in an idyllic, agrarian pod.

[Capetan Mihali]

Tyr, what's all this then? Even in Kansai, which puffs itself up so much as a sort of anti-Kanto, Japan's regional diversity isn't so much of a much. I'd ascribe more difference to Texans and South Carolinians, and they are peas in an idyllic, agrarian pod.

[Josquius]

Tyr, what's all this then? Even in Kansai, which puffs itself up so much as a sort of anti-Kanto, Japan's regional diversity isn't so much of a much. I'd ascribe more difference to Texans and South Carolinians, and they are peas in an idyllic, agrarian pod.

Given post war Japan was  heavily built on American influenced "Lolz, cars and concrete!!111" the urban centres, and even to an extent smaller places, tend to look much of a muchness. Nonetheless differences still shine through.
Its really interesting how in Japan you really have regional foods that do tend to stick to their region. In Britain we've pretty much figured food out and if something is good it becomes universal around the country. In Japan..not so. The inner-culture of the people tends to vary quite a bit too, Kansai people really do tend to be more outgoing and disrespectful of the rules.

[Lettow77]

Regional foods is a sort of enforced diversity through a very homogenous obsession with regional specialties, though. How many times can you hear that this small town is renowned for its [variant of noodles, vegetable, fruit] before you stop ascribing it to genuine diversity? m-muh meibutsu

I'll give you the bit about Kansai being less stuffy, but only by degrees. They can't get themselves free from what minna would think or do in any given situation regardless; its just the kansai minna is a slightly different flavor is all.

You might be right, though; as much as I say they aren't very different, I'm pretty partisan to western Japan. Regions that defied the sonno joi are a suspect lot.

[Queequeg]

 
You are an Otaku who would have supported the Sonno Joi.

[Lettow77]

>not supporting Hashimoto's glorious second restoration
>supporting the existence of filthy foreigners in Japan

I seriously hope

[Queequeg]

You don't want foreigners in Japan?

[Norgy]

Boy, I bet this thread turned out just the way you thought, Psellus.

[Queequeg]

I was hoping Lettow was busy getting a kidney stolen by the Yakuza.

[Malthus]

You don't want foreigners in Japan?

Lettow's following his dream - to be massacred by an ultra-nationalist for being a filthy foreigner defiling the sacred soil and womenfolk of Japan . 

[Norgy]

I was hoping Lettow was busy getting a kidney stolen by the Yakuza.

You could put that boy in the most homogenous country in the world and he'd find "northerners" and "southerners" still. Put him on the tundra of Russia, and he'd still find something that reminded him of the South.

"Yes, Yakutsk is almost like sweet ole' Charleston".