Post by kensei on Dec 2, 2011 14:33:17 GMT
I just got off the phone with and instructor...a CANADIAN instructor and he floored me with a strange concept he hold.
First off let me say that the whole idea of honor and "Japanese mentality" towards it is fine..but the rest of our cultures have the same ideals that we hold...
Anyways we were discussing an issue about a member of our board wanting to resign over work some issues that they were having personally and he said "Doesnt he realise that he did this the wrong way...I mean he does not realize that he LOST FACE because of the way he did this"!!!
LOST FACE?? Really, I mean I am as much in favour of the "good parts" of the cultures that I am part of through my own back ground and Karate...but really...LOSE FACE??? Who does he think he is a Samurai?
First off even the Samurai were not as honorable as we would like to think, lost of them were power hungry and horribly violent people who had little respect for the people they were supposed to be defending. By the end of the Samurai era in Japan more Japanese people wanted them gone and were in fear of them than not. they were like a horrible dictatorship that the US would invade to free the people...if they had a tad bit of oil for their troubles!
I am a small Welsh and Russian Canadian, he is an Irish/Japanese Canadian who grew up in Winnipeg and is as Japanses as I am Russian or Welsh!
I have seen many silly things from what people do in Karate, but this one was kind of breath taking...especially since I see the source of this as having "lost face" more than others in our group over silly things.
Just venting.
J
First off let me say that the whole idea of honor and "Japanese mentality" towards it is fine..but the rest of our cultures have the same ideals that we hold...
Anyways we were discussing an issue about a member of our board wanting to resign over work some issues that they were having personally and he said "Doesnt he realise that he did this the wrong way...I mean he does not realize that he LOST FACE because of the way he did this"!!!
LOST FACE?? Really, I mean I am as much in favour of the "good parts" of the cultures that I am part of through my own back ground and Karate...but really...LOSE FACE??? Who does he think he is a Samurai?
First off even the Samurai were not as honorable as we would like to think, lost of them were power hungry and horribly violent people who had little respect for the people they were supposed to be defending. By the end of the Samurai era in Japan more Japanese people wanted them gone and were in fear of them than not. they were like a horrible dictatorship that the US would invade to free the people...if they had a tad bit of oil for their troubles!
I am a small Welsh and Russian Canadian, he is an Irish/Japanese Canadian who grew up in Winnipeg and is as Japanses as I am Russian or Welsh!
I have seen many silly things from what people do in Karate, but this one was kind of breath taking...especially since I see the source of this as having "lost face" more than others in our group over silly things.
Just venting.
J