Xah Lee, 20050608
This blog article shows how we can get a glimps of each ethnicity's sexual culture by looking at yahoo website at that country.
Look at http://tw.yahoo.com/ first page, which features items as:
If the USA's yahoo.com has these content, the WASPs would have a fit. For, in their didly eyes, morality has been trespassed, God is offended.
Now look at Yahoo website in China: http://cn.yahoo.com/, featuring:
The generic WAPSs would have puked blood for these “public indecencies”.
One can glean cultures by simply going to yahoo of different regions. http://world.yahoo.com/
For example, for reasons, yahoo china cn.yahoo.com is filled with dynamic ads and items the Westerner's might call soft-porn. yahoo Taiwan tw.yahoo.com is similar. They give a direct contrast of cultural sexuality in Asia and the politically correct USA.
One can go and look at what kind of ads each region shows. and also gather how open is their sexual attitude by checking the sexiness of the page...
It's interesting to note also that there are 3 other languages for yahoo US: Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. Chinese there is understandble because the massive population and the rising power of China. Note that a decade ago in airports etc you'll see all languages including Japanese but you won't see Chinese. Not because Chinese are not populous back then but because they wasn't powerful.
Spanish there being usuall because Spanish have always been one of the main language. (2rd or 3rd largest speakers, was powerful (of the European Spaniards), and a alphabetical lang of the Western member)
Not sure why there's a Russian lang...
Screenshots of yahoo sites as of 2005-07-19:
Just realized, that amazon's japan site sells pornography.
above: A screenshot of amazon.co.jp porn DVD↗ on 2008-03-17
Screenshot of the whole web page: amazon_jp_200803.png
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