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Still, very strange thread
Dear WW
I most strongly agree with you. And if it had not been tsuwm (an intelligent American) who brought it up, and if it were not about Japanese, I should be more tranquil about it.
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Dear wsieber: Have you forgotten the Biedermeier obsession with the passage of excrement? I remember a book with several pictures showing animals defecating. I often wondered if such pictures influence Freud.
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Nearly trivial remark: it's one thing to display obsession with bodily functions - and quite another thing to point out such an obsession in a foreign population. Anthropologists have come under close scrutiny for such matters...
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...it's one thing to display obsession with bodily functions - and quite another thing to point out such an obsession in a foreign population......and yet another to find oneself surrounded by the surreality of it all. This is common practice among Korean children - some of my expatriate colleagues who taught at preschools and kindergartens reported that the kids would give a teacher "Dong-jib" (the Korean term for it) to show that they liked him/her. All together now: With friends like that, who needs enemas?  
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Dear wsieber: It's hard to decide which is worse, being too casual about the facts of life, or being too
rigidly in denial of them. One man's Mede is another man's Persian, as an old cliché has it.
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the kids would give a teacher "Dong-jib"
Well, I guess it beats a rotten apple. Sounds more exotic, too!
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