Also some explorations of What It Means To Be Japanese which kind of went over my head but seemed interesting.
I've been thinking about this a lot but couldn't find a way to put it in my post. I think talking about its history is one way that a nation learns to understand itself. Just like a person's identity is largely made up of what was done to them and how they responded to it, so too a national identity. This is one reason I *love* the visual novel/branching story framework for thinking about history, it accommodates and can reflect and even create a dialogue about different ways of thinking about national identity.
But yes, I'm looking at this as an outsider so I can't go too deep into it and I miss some things. I keep being worried that I've stumbled on the Japanese equivalent of Gone With the Wind and I'm just too clueless to notice.
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Date: 2019-11-04 11:25 pm (UTC)I've been thinking about this a lot but couldn't find a way to put it in my post. I think talking about its history is one way that a nation learns to understand itself. Just like a person's identity is largely made up of what was done to them and how they responded to it, so too a national identity. This is one reason I *love* the visual novel/branching story framework for thinking about history, it accommodates and can reflect and even create a dialogue about different ways of thinking about national identity.
But yes, I'm looking at this as an outsider so I can't go too deep into it and I miss some things. I keep being worried that I've stumbled on the Japanese equivalent of Gone With the Wind and I'm just too clueless to notice.