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

[Mike Newton]

I have no problem with Far-Eastern personas. My peeve is Romans and the like
from before the fall of Rome.  Now while our Latest Prince of Northshield
was Roman and was a very good Prince. I just don't see this era as being
period.

Thorbjorn
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From: "Elaine Koogler" <ekoogler1 at comcast.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: OT [Sca-cooks] Japanese (was: What did they..)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > 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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