ifignow wrote:

> 十五年前の日本を考えてみよう。日本人の大半が髪を金髪に染めたり、男女の同居が
> 普通になったり、肥満体が激増したりの予想をしていたら、当時の日本人は「日本は
> 西洋の文化みたいにけがれていないから、そんな事はありえない」と言い張ったであ
> ろう。しかし、今の日本では全て事実だ。
>
> ついでに、今から十五年後の日本では、日本人は室内で靴を履き、魚は食べない様に
> なり、ついでに「英会話教室」よりは「日会話教室」に通うようになるのかもしれな
> い。
>
> つまり、日本人は年々と日系人にそっくりになりつつあるのだ。

In 15 years? No. When I first came to Japan, I thought social developments such
as equality for women were 30-50 years behind the West. Maybe half of Japanese
will also be overweight in such a span of time. There already are schools for
ordinary Japanese to learn proper standard Japanese to get rid of regional
accents, and young people have shown a dislike for fish and rice for years, but
it will take much longer before Japanese give up going barefoot in their homes
or give up speaking what they call Japanese despite much formality already
having left it.

If Japan changes like that, will you stop hating the place because it feels
more like home?

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