OT [Sca-cooks] Japanese (was: What did they..)

[Elaine Koogler]

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> Since when do Noble Court Ladies use the phrase "wait just a
cotton-picking
> minute"?, oh Minowara-San?

That was my southern-American lady's side emerging briefly!
>
>    Besides, it IS the dark side. Ain't seen no Japanese folk in MY area!
> (Could be because the Roman Army just left to go to Gaul and support the
> rightful Emperor, I guess. But us Island-Empire folk should stick together
> anyway, I suppose.)

Ummmm.....when did Maroe and Naro move from Marinus????
>
> Rosine
> (Actually, and I really do wonder this, why are more and more people
> choosing to be anything but a European - and yet still want to play in the
> SCA? I could understand Middle Easterners from areas that had heavy
European
> influxes and cultural exchanges - but India, China, even [sorry Kiri]
Japan,
> while feudal in some definitions, are not within our mandate, yet they're
> becoming more and more popular as persona choices. Are we so used to being
> "not normal" in our daily lives that being "one of the crowd" on the
> weekends is no longer acceptable? Do we know so much about European
cultures
> that we've got a bunch of bored folk wanting more intellectual excitement?
> And what does that spell for the future? At Pennsic, it's become
especially
> noticeable that the Europeans are becoming outnumbered by the
> non-Europeans - and well, that's what I joined the SCA for - to recreate
> "European cultures from the fall of the Roman Empire through the 16th
> century".)

Lainie wondered the same  thing...see my answer to her.  I know I chose to
be Japanese because my interest has always been in that area...I hold my M.
A. in Far Eastern Art History.  I was studying this culture long before I
ever heard of the SCA, and was excited about the prospect of being able to
do more personal research when I heard about the SCA.  I was told that I
could have any kind of persona I wanted, and had been in with the persona
well-established when I ran up against the first person who told me I didn't
belong in the SCA.

I don't know why others choose to do it.  I suspect that some do because
they think it might be easier (it isn't...take it from one who actually does
both).  Maybe it is because they want to do something different.  In the
case of Middle Eastern, I think that the attraction is the comfort of the
clothing and the fact that women, particularly, like the excuse to learn ME
dance.

Kiri
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