XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: daken@verizon.net   
      
   On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:53:29 GMT, "Ethan Hammond"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"elsie"  wrote in message   
   >news:i_aIf.18328$vU2.11724@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...   
   >>   
   >> "sanjian"  wrote in message   
   >> news:dsrdjb$l1e$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
      
   Oh yeah!  Tomo!  That's right!  According to her, Sakaki and Yomi are   
   Americans, right? :-p   
      
      
   >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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