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(AAy own feeling now is that the great majority of peoP The language
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Batsoever in understanding people of different culture8 it probably
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because people jike the barrier to be there. Human beingS 本 1
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5 he majority of them disike thinking about anything. 。They are happy
than it is of
fy simple prejudices, a fact perhaps even truer of the Japanese than
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和he English, who are prejudiced enough, God knows. One of the great myt
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this country is that the Japanese understand foreigners, but foreigners don
"dersfand Japan。 。TThe very use of the concept "foreign” shows how little
「 gagp the Japanese have of anything outside their own country。 and whenever
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Tread anyfhing about my own country in newspapers or magazines here T am
appaled by the amount of gnorance dsplayed. Any news about England
always uses the foojish Jabel of shinshi no kuni,” something which seems as
sijy to me as the “Tujiyama-geisha” image of Japan. Not that it is something
for 】 have understood that people are happy with these
5 which annoys me,
plaGtudes which save them the trouble of thinking about things in which they
have no deep jnterest。 but merely a vulgar curiosity.
