what is that?
I also browsed some blogs in English. There are a lot of people writing their thoughts. It is interesting, but...,
From a Japanese view point, most of their sites were too individual. When I visited San Francisco last summer, I felt that so much. I saw a lot of people who had excessive self-consciousness, especially in the younger people.
When I stayed there almost eight years ago, I didn't felt like that so much as the stay at the last year. Their self-consciousness seemed to be stronger and stronger every year.
Because I'm an ordinary Japanese who lives in Japan I don know whether that is good for US people theirselves, or not. But I think that it became more difficult to live just as an ordinary person.
Let me say that concretely over here.
You may see such scene on tv or something as many interviewers makes some questions to an famous actor or actress. How do you think why they ask him or her so much earnestly? I think that is just because that is their business. If they record the talk of the actor on papers or videotapes and edited that to send to their editors, they can make living.
On the other hand, if a person makes some question to a person, that situation is not of their business. So the relationship between the persons was usually flat.
But if a person thinks that he or she is as great as a famous movie star or professional baseball player, he or she thinks that it is natural to ask some questions to him or her. In such process, their relation is being divided. If you think that the others should ask me first, the other person also thinks like that. As a result of that, nobody talks to anybody at first. That attitude will never make good relationship among people.
What is happening in Japan? I don know. But, I think, the things I wrote here may be one of the largest points between eastern and western culture. Those points might perplex especially people from the other sides.