Japanese Girls and the Kawaii Things That They Do
I'm big fan of Japanese girls and the kawaii things they do, and when I was a teacher, I loved observing the never ending parade of attractive female students I had. In Japan it's supposedly bad manners for a girl to laugh while showing her teeth, and the way they cover their mouth when laughing really starts to look cute to a guy after a while. Then there's the two-handed "bye-bye" wave that girls will do amongst themselves when parting, which is fun to watch, if a little bizarre. But the cutest thing I've ever seen a girl do is get embarrassed about something, then try to pull her bangs forward as if she could hide her red face underneath her hair. While I think the unique mannerisms of Japanese girls are kind of cool, not everyone agrees, and the derogatory word for girls who act like super-cute children to push the emotional buttons of males is burikko (boo-REE-kko), lit. "pretending girl." The culture of acting to cute is raised to a science in magazines like Bomb or in Japan's idol world, and I'm quite powerless to resist their magic.
I just love cute Japanese girls, don't you?
posted by Peter in Japan at 5:19 PM
4 Comments:
you were a college/university teacher right? cause if not that sounds kinda pedo...sorry, just sayin'.
11:43 PM
I love that you used a picture of Momoko for this ^^
And I agree my junior high and high school students especially do the most adorable things. And they catch on. I now almost always do the two handed wave myself, can never take a picture without a peace sign (or double peace if it's a really special picture) and wish I had been able to study abroad while I was in high school so I could wear one of the cute uniforms.
1:11 AM
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4:06 AM
I did teach mostly at a senmon gakko so the students were 18-20, but I had some high school age students over the years. The good thing about these kawaii gestures is, they're like watching a manga character, they're so inhumanly cute. There's no sexual element involved with liking most of the Hello Project type idols (at least not with anyone I've ever talked with). They're too cute for that. ^_^
7:45 AM
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