I suspect a big part of the difference is down to Japan's very strict defamation laws (much as the UK tends to be more circumspect than the US, but even more so). Even e.g. product review sites are difficult to use because they're desperate to avoid saying anything negative.
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#32did mainland china get a chance for the personal website stuff? i feel like I've seen a boatload of japanese/SEA blogs and websites in my years but never chinese. maybe they all skipped that phase and went straight to the social media megacorps over there and its all behind a walled garden
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#33did mainland china get a chance for the personal website stuff? i feel like I've seen a boatload of japanese/SEA blogs and websites in my years but never chinese. maybe they all skipped that phase and went straight to the social media megacorps over there and its all behind a walled garden
No, personal web in China almost doesn’t exist anymore because you need a ICP filing [0] to legally operate a website (even for a blog). It’s simply too much trouble for most people.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...it's very passive. No comments, no likes... We get a fair number of tourists from a famous western country who gush about how this is wonderful and that is amazing and have you even seen the thing over there? One doesn't need to ask where they're from; one hears them coming from 50m off. I wonder if they view their fellow tourists from more reserved cultures as being more passive?
No. Trust me, I hear PLENTY of complaints in America about tourists from East Asia. Every country has roudy tourists regardless of how stereotypically passive their culture is. This is because they all tend to congregate in the same destinations, and foreign languages sound louder because you can't understand them. Overtourism is absolutely a thing, mainly because tourists get sold the same set of destinations (e.g.…
I don't think it's necessarily only the fact that foreign language sounds louder, but also that when you assume others don't understand your language you speak more freely, which means louder as well. I've noticed that on myself, relatives and compatriots when we are in a country that doesn't speak out language.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...it's very passive. No comments, no likes... We get a fair number of tourists from a famous western country who gush about how this is wonderful and that is amazing and have you even seen the thing over there? One doesn't need to ask where they're from; one hears them coming from 50m off. I wonder if they view their fellow tourists from more reserved cultures as being more passive?
No. Trust me, I hear PLENTY of complaints in America about tourists from East Asia. Every country has roudy tourists regardless of how stereotypically passive their culture is. This is because they all tend to congregate in the same destinations, and foreign languages sound louder because you can't understand them. Overtourism is absolutely a thing, mainly because tourists get sold the same set of destinations (e.g.…
>foreign languages sound louder because you can't understand them.
More bluntly, your brain process languages you don't know simply as noise.
It's kind of easy to hear this from yourself, too: Speak a sentence, but pretend very hard that you aren't hearing the sounds coming out of your mouth as words. You will probably quickly find your "noise" grating.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Trust me, I hear PLENTY of complaints in America about tourists from East Asia. Every country has roudy tourists regardless of how stereotypically passive their culture is. This is because they all tend to congregate in the same destinations, and foreign languages sound louder because you can't understand them. Overtourism is absolutely a thing, mainly because tourists get sold the same set of destinations (e.g.…
Yep, pretty much this. I think tourists from many nations - and usually for varying reasons - sure don’t seem to lend to international understanding and goodwill. When I lived in Europe, I had a Swiss girlfriend complement me that I ‘dont dress like all the other Americans’. I got caught up in being flattered but then thought to ask exactly what she meant. ‘You know… they wear the khaki pleated shorts… sandals with s…
I have never heard socks with sandals about Americans before, but rather as a common stereotype of Germans [0].
[0] https://www.dw.com/en/germans-socks-and-sandals-an-explorati...
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#37I wonder if there's a desire for a western equivalent with the same rules?
I sorta doubt it. Anybody who speaks Japanese knows it's really hard to get reliable information on topics searching the Japanese web. You find all these Matome and personal sites that are loose with their sources or unclear with their phrasing. It's interesting because you do actual web "surfing" and learn a lot more interesting things along the way, but it's not good for centralized knowledge or social interaction.…
> Anybody who speaks Japanese knows it's really hard to get reliable information on topics searching the Japanese web.
Really depends on the topic. If you're searching for "water business", the results are amazing: there's pages explaining at length the difference between each subtype of businesses, shop aggregators and ranking, even people discussing the service providers, etc. I agree that that mentioning sources isn't a priority but that's the exact same thing in the West save for research papers.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Trust me, I hear PLENTY of complaints in America about tourists from East Asia. Every country has roudy tourists regardless of how stereotypically passive their culture is. This is because they all tend to congregate in the same destinations, and foreign languages sound louder because you can't understand them. Overtourism is absolutely a thing, mainly because tourists get sold the same set of destinations (e.g.…
Yep, pretty much this. I think tourists from many nations - and usually for varying reasons - sure don’t seem to lend to international understanding and goodwill. When I lived in Europe, I had a Swiss girlfriend complement me that I ‘dont dress like all the other Americans’. I got caught up in being flattered but then thought to ask exactly what she meant. ‘You know… they wear the khaki pleated shorts… sandals with s…
Sandals with socks are great.
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#39What's the difference between a "personal" website and a blog? Many people run blogging platforms such as wordpress to host their personal websites. It's just that they call them "blogs" and not "personal websites". To me, the only difference is that "personal website" is an older and less frequently used term.
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#40What's the difference between a "personal" website and a blog? Many people run blogging platforms such as wordpress to host their personal websites. It's just that they call them "blogs" and not "personal websites". To me, the only difference is that "personal website" is an older and less frequently used term.
A blog is like a public diary. A web log, with log entries.
A personal website can contain a blog, but doesn’t have to.