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I realized one thing while searching and interviewing the strange things about Japan or Japanese culture on my work research. Like some great philosopher said, we can find ourselves because there are some others exists, because of the differences between we and others. Right? Japanese people likes to know "What is Japanese Culture?" "Who likes Japanese culture and why?". They loves themselves so much and can't stop observing theirselves more than any other countries did ever.

But the scope to look into theirselves is very limited. They see themselves only look through from Western countries, like America, England, or Europe. This means that we Japanese only can find the differences between these cultures. To know Japan more, we need to know all the countries, we need to compare with all the countries. By looking with this scope, we can be more global and at the same time we will be able to face our culture more effectively. In long term, I think this will produce big bright future, other wise we will be behind all other countries.

When I interview people from other countries, they have a global view. I mean they can tell the differences between Japan, their home country and the world. It might be impossible to compare all the countries in one head, where she/he never traveled before, but they at least have three countries measure to see the culture.

To me, what I need is a scope of more developing countries, like India, Indonesia, Thai and so on. Remember, this is a effect of the TABITABI pod cast...
Ha, ha ha, thanks for great opportunity to write this here. I'm proud of myself, I realized now, at this point of my life.