In the quarter-century plus that this Feline Merchandise-ball has rolled back and forth across Japan, it's only stressed the obvious: Japanese are weird, strange people who do odd things in large groups. Hello Kitty is just an easy-to-demonstrate manifestation of that. "The universalization of cute" or "The icon-laden society of cutting-edge-japansese", the media will write, grappling for the right combination of words to describe a general trait in the Japanese Population: Adapt it, sell it, improve it, and sell it again, hopefully all within the same week.
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- It's just this little chromium switch, here... (
derspatchel) wrote,
It's just this little chromium switch, here...
derspatchel
for the benefit of miss lynn b.
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Housemoving
Along with many others, I am in the process of switching journalthings over to Dreamwidth due to the new ToS here at ЛЖ. I won't be deleting the…
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if you want to end Trump and stuff you gotta sing loud
This song is called Alice's Restaurant It's about Alice And the restaurant But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the…
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o this is an existing place
It's been a year since I posted anything and over a year since I wrote of anything substantive, but: Hello
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