Comments on: Why Do We Hate Essentializing Nations? http://prisonnotebooks.com/2012/02/02/why-do-we-hate-essentializing-nations/ Tue, 08 May 2012 23:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sayaka http://prisonnotebooks.com/2012/02/02/why-do-we-hate-essentializing-nations/comment-page-1/#comment-31010 Sayaka Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:45:40 +0000 http://prisonnotebooks.com/?p=460#comment-31010 Thanks for your comment, Michi. This is how we become sour and misanthropic as we grow old. Have to watch out. Thanks for your comment, Michi.
This is how we become sour and misanthropic as we grow old. Have to watch out.

]]> By: Michi http://prisonnotebooks.com/2012/02/02/why-do-we-hate-essentializing-nations/comment-page-1/#comment-30988 Michi Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:58 +0000 http://prisonnotebooks.com/?p=460#comment-30988 I struggle with this too. Added to the usual is my realization that, deep down, I too was drawn to study japan etc. out of a deep sense of the exotic. One really big moment for me in thinking about this was reading Gluck's newspaper review of the movie Lost in Translation. Her message, which was essentially, "chill out," was very persuasive. The trick is to chill out without losing a degree of critical reflectiveness, i guess. thanks for posting this! I struggle with this too. Added to the usual is my realization that, deep down, I too was drawn to study japan etc. out of a deep sense of the exotic.

One really big moment for me in thinking about this was reading Gluck’s newspaper review of the movie Lost in Translation. Her message, which was essentially, “chill out,” was very persuasive. The trick is to chill out without losing a degree of critical reflectiveness, i guess.

thanks for posting this!

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