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200 10$aJapanese and Americans$b[electronic resource] $ecultural parallels and paradoxes /$fby Charles Grinnell Cleaver
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1976
215   $a1 online resource (313 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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311   $a0-8166-0761-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
327   $aContents; CHAPTER 1 The Problem: Stereotypes (Self-Imposed and Otherwise), ""National Character,"" and Paradox; CHAPTER 2 The Wilderness Zion and the Land of the Gods; CHAPTER 3 The ""Crass Materialists"" and the ""Economic Animals,""; CHAPTER 4 The Old Environment: Nature; CHAPTER 5 Workaday and Holiday; CHAPTER 6 Fiction and the Popular Imagination; CHAPTER 7 Shelter and Symbol; CHAPTER 8 The Nurture of the Young; CHAPTER 9 In Concluding; EPILOGUE: ""Same Difference,""; By Way of Bibliography; Notes; Index
330   $aLong periods of residence, study, and teaching in Japan have given Professor Cleaver an opportunity to observe its culture and to compare it with that of the United States, where he is a specialist in American studies. He reaches the conclusion that differences in the two cultures have been emphasized so much that similarities have been overlooked. Further, he points out, when differences have been discovered, a moral judgment has often been implied. In this book he provides a balanced view which will, it is hoped, contribute to a better understanding between the two countries. Since an exhaus
606   $aComparative civilization
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607   $aUnited States$xCivilization
608   $aElectronic books.
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