Japanese History & Homosexuality, and I wonder..
I thought that "sharing is good". So I decided to post something I learned a while ago in a few LJ accounts. Then I got a message saying some other user quoted my article in his/her journal. Well, I am not sure... I am very new in all this, so what is the right way to go about here in LJ? I would not be the judge. But is it really how things work here, dig out someone else's post just with one copy-paste action and use it in the face of their own journal? Even without a single word in my original post... I would have been really happy to hear others' thoughts. Now I understand a little more about what hard-working scanners and scanlators feel when their babies are abducted and abused elsewhere. :**(
It is not a very big deal I guess since it is not something classified, just as short article. But I kinda tasted something bitter from my first post in LJ. That user's journal was filled with quoted posts from somewhere else. That user did quote me too though... Maybe he/she is just collecting interesting entries. It would have been really nice, though, if he/she had dropped a comment to my original post to avoid all the misunderstanding if that (collecting interesting entries) was the case. That I would call manners. Well, in a way, it will help spreading the story-- so it is all good.
Sooooo, I thought, if someone else can use my post in their journal, why not use it to my own as well?? Now here I go:
I found out about an interesting fact that Japan has a long history of openly accepting homosexuality from ancient time. I read it from a yaoi manga a while ago-- you never know what you can learn from whatever you go through-- and searched in Wikipedia and found an article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan
Just as Chinese culture having been more tolerant towards gay relationship before they were exposed to the Western culture, Japan also started to nix homosexuality when they opened up in late 19th century. Now people are more prejudiced towards homosexuality in Asia than other part of the world. They must realize that it is not the way it used to be. Religion that came along with the rest of the Western culture strongly denies and prohibits same sex relationship. I suspect that might have been the main culprit to the change in Asian society unlike some believe that Buddhism or Confucianism was the cause.
Since I posted the similar content in a few different places, every post is a bit modified depends on the place. I wonder if many people already knew about this. Was I the only one shocked to find this out?? So this is why we see many Samurais and military men (most likely inspired by the samurai tradition) in yaoi stories. ;)
It is not a very big deal I guess since it is not something classified, just as short article. But I kinda tasted something bitter from my first post in LJ. That user's journal was filled with quoted posts from somewhere else. That user did quote me too though... Maybe he/she is just collecting interesting entries. It would have been really nice, though, if he/she had dropped a comment to my original post to avoid all the misunderstanding if that (collecting interesting entries) was the case. That I would call manners. Well, in a way, it will help spreading the story-- so it is all good.
Sooooo, I thought, if someone else can use my post in their journal, why not use it to my own as well?? Now here I go:
I found out about an interesting fact that Japan has a long history of openly accepting homosexuality from ancient time. I read it from a yaoi manga a while ago-- you never know what you can learn from whatever you go through-- and searched in Wikipedia and found an article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual
Just as Chinese culture having been more tolerant towards gay relationship before they were exposed to the Western culture, Japan also started to nix homosexuality when they opened up in late 19th century. Now people are more prejudiced towards homosexuality in Asia than other part of the world. They must realize that it is not the way it used to be. Religion that came along with the rest of the Western culture strongly denies and prohibits same sex relationship. I suspect that might have been the main culprit to the change in Asian society unlike some believe that Buddhism or Confucianism was the cause.
Since I posted the similar content in a few different places, every post is a bit modified depends on the place. I wonder if many people already knew about this. Was I the only one shocked to find this out?? So this is why we see many Samurais and military men (most likely inspired by the samurai tradition) in yaoi stories. ;)