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by rangibaby 3594 days ago
"This is your brain on nationalism"
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You can imagine being British and learning the American language. Of course people feel cheated if their culture is not credited where it should be.
When someone in Japan, talking about the Japanese language, refers to "Japanese characters", they clearly mean "characters used when writing Japanese". They are not suggesting anything about where the characters originated.