2012-02-11, 13:19 | Link #2121 |
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What you have to understand is that traditionally, Japan was not a patriarchy, but more of a special type of "rule by family". It was the family, and by extension the surname, that was the true authority of the family, and it didn't really matter who represented the family (although by convention and Confucianism it was usually a male member). Because of this family superiority, a male would adopt the female's surname as a symbol of his being included into the female's family.
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2012-02-11, 14:58 | Link #2122 |
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Heritage of Japan: Great Source for Things Japanese
For an outstanding and highly informative English-language website on Japan, its people and its culture, check out Heritage of Japan, owned by Singaporean-born Aileen Kawagoe, who is married to a Japanese man and lives in Japan.
Aileen Kawagoe's Facebook page can be found here. Among other things, Heritage of Japan includes numerous articles on the latest research by Japanese and other anthropologists, molecular biologists, linguists, etc., on the origins and the roots of the Japanese people.
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2012-02-11, 15:45 | Link #2123 |
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looks like these guys also have to put up with the 'lamestream media' like here in the U.S. http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/0...an-propaganda/ |
2012-02-11, 15:50 | Link #2124 | |
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2012-02-11, 16:04 | Link #2125 |
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Yes, a man marrying in to a woman's family is an acceptable practice in China. It is mostly a case where a family without sons wants to continue their bloodline. The children will bear their mother's surname. But in China, neither one of the married couple change surnames.
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2012-02-11, 17:55 | Link #2128 | |
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2012-02-11, 19:03 | Link #2132 |
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I read an page which seems to tell about Japanese culture and a little connection to middle names.
These are intended for fun. http://www.asianjoke.com/japanese/yo...e_american.htm |
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The Central Asian and Mongoloid Ancestries of the Turkish People
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Based on extensive data and evidence gathered by Turkish researchers and himself, the Greek anthropologist Dienekes Pontikos has been exploring for a number of years on his blog, Dienekes' Anthropology Blog, and his public genome blogging project, Dodecad Ancestry Project, the Central Asian and Mongoloid genetic heritages of the contemporary people of Turkey (modern-day Anatolia): How Turkish are the Anatolians? February 11, 2005 Quote:
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The Central Asian element in Turks (part 3) May 18, 2011 Quote:
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2012-02-12, 19:46 | Link #2135 |
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There is a very useful work I was able to loan out at the Japan Foundation in downtown Toronto, called Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People; which was put together a few years back for an Ainu exhibit held at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
(As it happens, just a few minutes's walk along Bloor Street West from the Japan Foundation library is the Royal Ontario Museum, which has the largest collection of Ainu material in Canada.) Interestingly, there have been links forged between Ainu groups in Hokkaido and various First Nations in Canada; the efforts in recent decades to improve the status (and visibility) of Canada's indigenous peoples (to also include the Inuit and Métis) has been said to inspire those looking to keep the Ainu linguistic and cultural heritage of Hokkaido a going concern. Actually, I had one question about the "Yamato" culture in Hokkaido (which, north of Hakodate, is only about as old as, say, the European presence in British Columbia). Is there any particular region of pre-Meiji Japan where the bulk of settlers went to the island from; and if so, did they bring their particular regional dialect and/or cultural quirks with them? Or is the non-Ainu culture of Hokkaido considered to have become its own thing, relative to more southerly parts of the country?
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2012-02-12, 22:00 | Link #2136 | |
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And I hate it too. "Listen here Mr. Guadalupe-Villanueva, I only got like 10 characters in the surname field, can you please make up your mind which one you'd like to use?" I kid, I kid. Don't go no Desperado on me
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2012-02-12, 23:13 | Link #2137 | |
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2012-02-12, 23:43 | Link #2139 | |
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With Spanish surnames, I still have to work with this day and age. And here in southern USA we get a lot of these. Why can't those financing software have two fields long for family names!?
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