My persona, Aya Kowashi, is a Japanese high school girl born and living in Tokyo. She's interested in cultural exchange particularly American (pop) culture. She only exists on facebook.
The idea of creating my persona is a stereotype (I have) of Japanese girls. I have been overly thinking and analyzing Japanese girl's behavior I have few friends who are self-conscious and the problem I have with those girls is that they strive to look cute thought what they do doesn't appear to be cute to the others eyes. On her facebook, Aya uses many emoticons, hearts, stars, exclamations marks. She thinks adding those extra decorations are cute and will look cute to the others, too. But the fact is that Japanese culture tells girls what is cute and the girls just follow what the culture tells them, so "extra decorations are cute" is generated by the culture, not her true opinion. So, the behavior of Japanese girls is superficial and truly driven by their unconscious self-consciousness, and that's what my persona is.
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ReplyDeleteThough I am not a japanese but we have the same opinion about this "stereotype".
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