LolliAdverbs

I live in Japan, and am well aware that Japan is not that much different from America. The novel is about cultural differences, but more on a social level (of which I think most people would agree is quite large). Sam is the one the oddball character, and I go out of my way in the story to make sure people know that he's not a typical Japanese man. There is very little in this book that makes Japan exotic, so I'm not that worried.

Oh and Lin, I'll check the book out. I'm not too worried about tainting my ideas since the time periods are very different. And I'm not sure how many dirty scenes I'm going to put in... I live my life pretty "dirty scene" free, so i'm not very qualified to speak on those topics. But i've seen enough movies and heard enough about my friends lives that I think I can make enough educated guesses.

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toccoto

I live in Korea, do they put beans on YOUR ice cream too?

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LolliAdverbs

Yup, they do. Atzuki beans, right? (or whatever read beans are called in Korean) They also like to hide Green Tea in everything.

I went to Seoul for only three days, but found out in the process that I loved it, I love Korean reality television (primarily the Super Junior shows), and I'll never be able to eat anything but bibimbop next time I go because everything is too spicy...

Also, Korean dancers are AWESOME, and Tablo is too talented.

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toccoto

Yeah I was in Japan for around the same time. I forget what they call the beans honestly. They are like the Chile sauce of desserts, they are in or on everything. By the way, your writing was good what I meant by cultural differences were ASSUMED ones. Kind of funny, obviously if you are living there you know what you're talking about so you should be fine. It's always the small differences (like the beans) that speak the most to me.

Honestly it's usually when people are like "Oh this culture is so much more this and that than this culture." That it gets annoying. Like my friend was convinced that Asia was so much cleaner... I had to sadly tell him in all my travels I still haven't found a cleaner city than Salt Lake City. Which is in the evil, nature hating empire of the USA he hates so much it seems...

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lin

Awwww, wotta gyp

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LolliAdverbs

It's a gyp for you? Well it's more a gyp for me!

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