Hassun

The reason why many like to talk about "the Japanese" as one group wherein everyone thinks the same is because a lot of books and works deal with the Japanese in this way. It is of course very wrong.

So why are all those books written that way? It's because the Japanese just LOVE to speak about themselves that way. Their whole culture is based on it. The group, not the individual.
The interesting thing about this is that the rest of the world thought like that for a long time as well. The West changed its focus to the individual not so long ago.

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