You can easily find many American adults in their 30s and 40s and even 50s
still playing Nintendo or Playstation.

And you will frequently run into many Americans who collect comic
books (like Spiderman and so forth) for life.

So where is your logic?

Chinese people in their adulthood still enjoy that kungfu movies, 
where people are flying everywhere and break huge stone in half,
which I think is extremely childish.


superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) wrote in message news:<e91ad9af.0410200125.51e6ff40@posting.google.com>...
> Macarthur called japs 12 year olds but he isnt only one.   I am
> copy-pasting this from a "japan faq" which is a highly scientific
> analysis:
> 
> 
> 
> "It's no exaggeration to say that Japanese (particularly women) think
> on a more childlike level. "
> 
> Is this a scientific conclusion?   I guess maybe macarthur was right
> 
> 
>  "even in the 1990s you don't exactly see a large number of western
> women carrying around Mickey Mouse pencil cases and Hello Kitty
> notebooks well into their 30s. Women are taught to act and look cute,
> not sophisticated. Japanese pop music sounds like it was written by
> elementary school students, and pop-stars ("idoru", from idol) are
> here today, gone tomorrow. At any rate, amae is a fundamental
> characteristic of Japan--one (the 'kobun') presumes on a superior (the
> 'oyabun') in a group, and a vertical, symbiotic relationship is
> created. "
> 
> 
> so is it true that japs are children and its not just macarthur's
> rambling?