Brian McVeighThinkers

Cuteness , in Japan, is associated with powerlessness and with the world of females weakness, femininity, cheerfulness, bright colors, infants, children, youth, light-heartedness, outgoingness, smallness.

Cuteness , in Japan, is used also by authority (i.e. with non-threatening cartoons) to persuade, warn and admonish is quite conspicuous.

Cuteness , in Japan, is characterized by a desire to be liked, by a vulnerability related to this desire.

Cuteness , in Japan, is characterized by an ability to arouse the protective instinct in others.

Cuteness is characterized in Japan as having features of an infant.

Cuteness , in Japan, is often expressed with animals because animals seem to require loving attention from people; they need to be protected, cuddled and held.

Cuteness is often used in Japan as a way of obtaining favors and attention from those above one.

Japan is a uniformed society: from salary men to office ladies, from cab drivers to bus drivers, from kindergartners to high schoolers, even almost to the gangsters with their flashy fashion.

Japan is a country where cuteness is defined against Power and the world of males, strength, masculinity, gloomy, dark,. colors adults maturity serious taciturn large

Japan is a country where cuteness is often expressed with animals because in animals there is a lack of gender markers, thereby making them free from any sexual implications or tensions.

Japan is a country where cuteness is used to symbolize, reinforce and communicate norms which privileges males over females and is the ideal sentiment for strengthening lines of authority.

Japan is a country where cuteness is to one's subordinates is a method of appearing non-threatening, thereby gaining their confidence, and perhaps more cynically, control over them.

Japan is a country where empathy is ranked so high among the virtues considered indispensable for one to be truly human, morally mature, and deserving of respect that one is tempted to call Japanese culture an empathetic culture.

Japan is a country where the uniform is ubiquitous in Japan. One might say that Japan is a uniformed society: from salary men to office ladies, from cab drivers to bus drivers, from kindergartners to high schoolers, even almost to the gangsters with their flashy fashion.

Japan is a country where cuteness is often expressed with animals because animals, as living, breathing, active things, exist somewhere in between being human but not quite human ' controllable but not too controllable ' in a way that allows us to project our own selves onto them.

The Uniform , in Japan, is a tangible symbol of the ability of the enormous and extensive politico-economic structures to shape bodily practices, and by implication, subjectivity and behavior.

The Uniform , in Japan, is a socializing instrument used to instill a sense of solidarity with a particular unit or figure.

The Uniform , in Japan, is a way to identify and position social actors in various hierarchies, units, occupations and gender categories.

The Uniform , in Japan, is a way for outsiders to make quick and convenient classification, as a way of knowing who does what and what role a person performs.

The Uniform , in Japan, is a means by which age distinctions, sex-specific differences and gender norms are inculcated.