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   From: eshammond@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "elsie"  wrote in message   
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   > "sanjian"  wrote in message   
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   >> 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   
   > is one that often seems alien to me. I'm fairly soft-spoken myself. While   
   > I see a few loud girls among my students, they're out-numbered by the   
   > quiet types.   
      
   I guess it is comparison to Japanese girls.  And this is all speaking in   
   generalizations,   
   but usually Japanese girls are shy and quiet around boys.  Japanese keep   
   there girls   
   more childlike and innoncent longer than girls in America are kept that way.   
   Indeed   
   girls tend to mature faster than boys.  So Tomo or Nuku Nuku are not the   
   standard   
   bearer for the Japanese high school girl.  But also they are not so far to   
   the other   
   extreme as to be like Rei or what not either.  But in general Japanese girls   
   act less   
   mature in high school than there American counterparts, while in reality   
   they are   
   likely more mature.   
      
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