I often hear that Japan is a unique country. It is unique, just as Australia or Canada is unique. "Uniqueness" depends on the physical position of the person who makes such a claim.It is normal to make a distinction between yourself and others. Between your cultures and other cultures. This is a human instinct. I believe it is part of our primal survival instinct.
Living in Japan, I don't find the Japanese so unique. They are just people with fears, anger and dreams just like everyone else.
My son loves to sing just like children in other countries. I worry as a father as other father's do. We are more the same than different. When we think too much, about how unique a culture is, we divide ourselves.
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