Renegade

Re:I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 0:51 (#15174043) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.21 3:21)
Before the advent of the Internet era, the lifestyle of almost all Japanese people were similar. They work from 9 to 7 and at home they watch the same TV program. They read the same newspaper. They were talking about the same social topic, hold the similar opinion. Always say we Japanese think, believe, act, not I. We had been feeling very secured when we put ourselves in this group psychology. They rarely thought they act because it is right. Everybody does, therefore I do. They didn't care whether it is right, or not. Our mentality was so simplified as if they ceased thinking that nobody wasn't willing to take responsibility for their act, nothing but their act. According to their criteria, they do because everybody does so.
I was one of the very few renegades in such an era. But I didn't change my lifestyle. I had been keeping my lifestyle though it was opposite to majority of Japanese people.
Time has passed. Things have been changing drastically these ten years. Preferences of people have been just diversified so we no more point out someone is different from others. People nowadays prefer to live according to their preferences. People are different essentially.
Japan's society has been changing. But in comparison to American society, still it's very conventional.
Twenty years ago I was much more particular about what Prime Minister said about national politics in a newspaper than what my friend said about politics. Now what Degree said about politics is much more worthy of than what one unknown critic said in a TV show.
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