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   From: eshammond@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   news:43f106c8.11828348@news.telusplanet.net...   
   > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:10:22 GMT, "elsie"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> While the "in your face" attitude of America's youth culture is   
   >>> definately   
   >>> tiring, it would be just as absurd to catgeorize American women that way   
   >>> as it would be for Nakajima to slander all men.   
   >>Certainly, the stereotype of the loud American girl with attitude in anime   
   >   
   > Examples?  When I think back on the American girls in the ones I've   
   > seen, they don't seem all that loud to me.   
      
   Well I don't know if you have played Dead or Alive, but the girls in the   
   series do make for good cultural archetypes.  Kasumi for example is   
   pretty quiet and shy, while Tina is very outgoing and all about capturing   
   the American dream.  Kasumi is very soft spoken, while Tina is louder   
   and Kasumi would probably never dream of fighting w/ her father in   
   public verbal or physically, but Tina has no problem fighting w/ her   
   father Bass.  So in reality not all Japanese girls are quiet and reserved   
   and not all American girls are loud and outgoing, but it is a cultural   
   stereotype that is often played w/ in media.   
      
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