William KellyThinkers

Baseball is a glocal sport. Rather than being fully integrated into the sporting globalization paradigm, in the case of baseball, the global becomes localized such that it becomes inherently unique in each culture where it is played.

The New middle class in Japan is a redefinition of standards of achievement, desirability, and possibility in 1970s-80s Japan. It takes form in the gendered terms of a nuclear family in which the husband worked for a large corporation, the wife was a full-time homemake, and the two children were hardworking student.

The New middle class in Japan is the gendered nuclear family with redefined standards of achievement, desirability, and possibility.

Uncanny mimicry is a copy of a cultural practice that is both familiar and foreign and at once is a copy destined to fall short and an aggressive appropriation that imaginatively exceeds the model.