Comments on: A very Japanese Halloween http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/31/a-very-japanese-halloween/ Laurent Fintoni's online portfolio and blog... music, travels, life Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Laurent http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/31/a-very-japanese-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3079 Laurent Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:34:35 +0000 http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/30/a-very-japanese-halloween/#comment-3079 or it could have to do with fundamentalist christians... lol or it could have to do with fundamentalist christians… lol

]]> By: Alex Case http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/31/a-very-japanese-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3073 Alex Case Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:14:18 +0000 http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/30/a-very-japanese-halloween/#comment-3073 Come to think of it, the fact that it is Christmas, Halloween and Valentines rather than Ramadan and Diwali that are catching on all over the world might have something to with the Americans... Again, one of those things I've got so used to I hardly notice anymore. Come to think of it, the fact that it is Christmas, Halloween and Valentines rather than Ramadan and Diwali that are catching on all over the world might have something to with the Americans… Again, one of those things I’ve got so used to I hardly notice anymore.

]]> By: Laurent http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/31/a-very-japanese-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3070 Laurent Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:06:18 +0000 http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/30/a-very-japanese-halloween/#comment-3070 Yeah tbh the American connection was more just a thought, likely due to the presence of so many american related things, it just seemed to make sense to me as to why Halloween would be such a big deal, tho i did wonder because i know halloween isn't that big everywhere in the states. I've heard of the valentines day thing, which sounds like the mother of all capitalist tie ins, ha ha. You're right about it making you feel good, i just found the overbearing capitalist nature of it all a bit hard to swallow. Im a lot easier on the whole sakura thing for example. Yeah tbh the American connection was more just a thought, likely due to the presence of so many american related things, it just seemed to make sense to me as to why Halloween would be such a big deal, tho i did wonder because i know halloween isn’t that big everywhere in the states.
I’ve heard of the valentines day thing, which sounds like the mother of all capitalist tie ins, ha ha.
You’re right about it making you feel good, i just found the overbearing capitalist nature of it all a bit hard to swallow. Im a lot easier on the whole sakura thing for example.

]]> By: Alex Case http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/31/a-very-japanese-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-3066 Alex Case Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:03:00 +0000 http://www.lo-la.co.uk/2007/10/30/a-very-japanese-halloween/#comment-3066 I must've been here too long or have had a particularly good book and selection of music on my MP3 player, because I hardly noticed this year... Not sure there is an American connection, it's just the Japanese companies seeing a great new way to make cash plus the Japanese traditional love of anything that is seasonal (you've got to love the plastic branches of autumn leaves on shopping streets next to the real trees that have been butchered so that no leaves inconvenience anyone). You might have heard the story of how girls give boys chocolates on Valentine's because the chocolate companies decided they'd make more cash that way- and boy were they right! As impossible as it is for me, I can kind of see the logic of giving yourself up to commercialism or cuteness- it does, after all, make you feel good for a bit if your culture hasn't taught you to feel guilty about it. The Japanese tried living and dying for a higher cause only 60 years ago, and it didn't work out too well for them or anyone else... TEFLtastic blog- "All the truth that's fit to teach"- www.tefl.net/alexcase I must’ve been here too long or have had a particularly good book and selection of music on my MP3 player, because I hardly noticed this year…

Not sure there is an American connection, it’s just the Japanese companies seeing a great new way to make cash plus the Japanese traditional love of anything that is seasonal (you’ve got to love the plastic branches of autumn leaves on shopping streets next to the real trees that have been butchered so that no leaves inconvenience anyone). You might have heard the story of how girls give boys chocolates on Valentine’s because the chocolate companies decided they’d make more cash that way- and boy were they right!

As impossible as it is for me, I can kind of see the logic of giving yourself up to commercialism or cuteness- it does, after all, make you feel good for a bit if your culture hasn’t taught you to feel guilty about it. The Japanese tried living and dying for a higher cause only 60 years ago, and it didn’t work out too well for them or anyone else…

TEFLtastic blog- “All the truth that’s fit to teach”- http://www.tefl.net/alexcase

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