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Things You Shouldn’t Do In Japan
2016.06.23
Writer name : KAMIOKA
Japan is a country that's very concerned about etiquette, so there are manners that you should be aware of. Here are 7 things you should know so your trip can go smoothly and happily. The first three are things that shouldn't be done because they are related to Buddhist funerals so doing them will bring bad luck, while the other four are manners used in daily life.
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1. Awasebashi (passing food from one pair of chopsticks to the other)
Awasebashi is the act of passing food from one pair of chopsticks to the other, such as in the photo when someone is offering you a bite. It's also called "hashiwatashi," and it's a breach of manners that will break the fun atmosphere of your meal. Why is this bad? In Japanese funerals, after the body is cremated, the family members pick the bones from the ashes and pass it to each other using chopsticks. Since awasebashi is reminiscent of that, it is an act that will bring bad luck. So what do you do in the case of the photo below? You ask them to place it on the communal plate so you can pick it up yourself or you pass them a small dish. Under no circumstances do you take food directly from chopstick to chopstick.
2. Tatebashi (standing chopsticks)
Tatebashi is what it's called when chopsticks are placed in a bowl of rice standing up. In Japanese Buddhist funerals, rice is offered to the deceased with the chopsticks standing straight in the bowl. Since it has this funeral connection, it's also a breach of manners to do it in daily life. When you're eating and you want to put your chopsticks down, please use a chopstick rest. If there isn't one, place the end of your chopsticks on a small dish as shown in the photo. If you're using disposable chopsticks, you can also use the paper envelope it comes in as a chopstick rest.
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3. When you wear kimono or yukata, the left side goes on top
Since Western shirts have the buttons on the opposite sides depending on the gender, many Japanese people think that kimono or yukata (summer kimono) are meant to be worn with the opposite side on top depending on gender as well. Actually, both men and women are meant to have the left side on the top. If you have the right side on top, you're dressed the way deceased people are dressed for funerals. An easy way to remember it is to wear it so that your right hand can easily touch your chest under the top layer. In this photo of a woman you can see that her right hand should be able to easily slide into her kimono. That's how you know the left side is on top. Please remember that when you wear a kimono or yukata, your right hand should be able to slide into your clothing easily so you know you're wearing it correctly.
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4. Don't bring outside food into restaurants/drinking establishments
Since restaurants are establishments made to offer food and drink, you're meant to eat what they have on hand. Depending on the store, there are places that will let you bring in outside food for a fee but this is not a regular rule. Also, for restaurants, if a customer gets food poisoning then it won't be clear where the customer got it from and the store might have to close temporarily, making it a very big problem. Please only eat food offered at that restaurant. For example, don't bring rice balls to a French restaurant. However, if you're going to a food court, you're relatively free to eat what you want. If there's something you want to bring to eat, please go to a place like a food court. Please consider ordering something from a place in the food court as well.
*Photo is for illustrative purposes.
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5. Stand on one side of the escalator
Technically you're not supposed to walk up the escalator, but in Japan it's considered polite to leave one side open for people in a hurry to walk up. When you ride the escalator, please leave the right side available for people. While the rule to leave one side open for people in a hurry is nationwide, standing on the left is the Kanto rule. In Kansai, you stand on the right. This is only a rumor, but it's said that the reason people in Kansai stand on the right is that when the World Expo came to Osaka in 1970, they moved to the right to match Western etiquette. So why do people stand on the left in Kanto? It's said to match Japanese traffic laws, where cars drive on the left so people pass on the right. This might be different from your country.
On escalators vators that aren't wide enough to pass by, please be careful to utilize the escalator when you're in a rush to you avoid accidents. When you walk on them, please make sure to use the handrail.
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6. Don't speak loudly or use the phone in trains and elevators
It's fun to move around while talking with your friends. But if you get too excited and speak really loudly, it's considered a breach of etiquette in Japan. It is even worse in a small space like an elevator or a train. Speaking in such a loud voice that the people around you can hear you clearly will make others uncomfortable. Also, on trains, there is an announcement asking to put your cell phones on manner mode, to refrain from speaking on the phone, and to turn your phone off entirely when you're by the priority seats. Most Japanese people will hang up their phone quickly or respond by text if their phone rings. Even during the morning rush hours when trains are packed, it's surprisingly quiet. The basis of this rule is to not intrude in on other people's space and cause trouble, something that is very important to Japanese people. While it isn't necessary to ride a super-packed train, please be careful of your volume when you're in public areas.
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7. Trash separation
It's necessary to separate your trash when you're throwing it out. The biggest categories are burnables (raw trash, paper, etc.), non-burnables (pots, glass, etc.), and recyclables (glass bottles, cans, plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboards, etc.). Also, depending on the organization dealing with the trash, it might separate food trays that comes with pre-prepared foods bought at the supermarket separately from burnables, or non-burnables might be separated into even more specific categories. Please be aware of what it's like in the area you're staying in. Something that you'll see often is trash cans by vending machines that separate plastic bottles and cans. At convenience stores, there are garbage cans with illustrations representing which trash they're for so please try to use them without making a mistake. Being able to fully enjoy your trip sightseeing in Japan while participating in keeping the country clean is truly a great thing. Please separate your trash.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Please remember and abide by these Japanese manners during your stay.
*Please note that the information in this article is from the time of writing or publication and may differ from the latest information.
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Arkaim: What ‘Swastika City’ Tells Us About Aryan Origins
Wednesday, 07 December 2016 09:43
Minhera Elen
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Until recently the search for the Proto-Indo-European, or the Proto-Aryan homeland has taken on the same futility as the endless search for Atlantis. It has become the ever present thorn in the side of professional academics and amateurs alike. WWII expert and contributor to The Barnes Review, Marc Roland wrote:
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Ancient History’s great mystery is its beginning.”
A South Russian legend speaks to us of a long lost sacred city of the East. This forgotten citadel was ruled by the legendary King Yama. This ancient monarch ruled over the Aryans at a juncture in prehistory which the ancient Egyptians call Zep Tepi, or the First Time, some 10,000 years B.C when the gods walked beside men, a golden age of fantastic wonders. According to the legend, there will come to pass a future age when the Aryans will reassert themselves and the gods will again return to Earth, and the ancient Aryans will become the center of world civilization.
Just north of Kazakhstan, near the Ural Mountains of Russia, are ruins of an ancestral land of cities known as Arkaim. Here “the structures man built on the ground are said to mirror the heavens above.” The religious scholar Mircea Eliade, in A History of Religious Ideas writes:
For more than a century, scholars have made every effort to identify the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans, to decipher their protohistory, and to clarify the phases of their migrations. Their land of origin has been sought in northern and central Europe, in the Russian steppes, in central Asia, in Antatolia etc. It is generally agreed today to localize the home of the Indo-Europeans in the regions north of the Black Sea, between the Carpathians and the Caucuses.”
Most scientists trace their origin to the Kurgan culture of that area. On February 18, 2015, Science Daily reported:
Linguists have long agreed that languages from English to Greek to Hindi, known as ‘Indo-European Languages’, are the modern descendants of a new language family that first emerged from a common ancestor spoken thousands of years ago. Now, a new study gives us more information on when and where it was most likely used. Using data from over 150 languages, linguists provide evidence that this ancestor language originated 5,500 – 6,500 years ago in the Pontic Caspian Steppe.”
This Bronze Age pre-literate Aryan civilization may be that long-searched for Proto-Indo-European homeland. Arkaim demonstrates a level of archaeo-astronomical and architectural sophistication that is amazingly sophisticated for its age. Could this be the point of origin of ancient white civilization? Archaeologists date it as early as 5600 B.C., but some suspect that this ancient site could be far older still. Academics have long held that the earliest civilizations first sprang in the Fertile Crescent region of Mesopotamia, the Nile Delta and the Indus River region around 5,200 years ago. We know from the examination of skeletal remains, most specifically skull measurements and DNA extractions of those remains, that these cultures were the by-product of the Old European or Mediterranean civilization, not Semitic culture as is the emphasis of many academics.
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Recently, especially with the discovery by the late Professor Klaus Schmidt of Gobekli Tepe, we now know that Aryans were already building magnificent structures as early as 9600 B.C, in Turkey. Could the dating of Arkaim be at all incorrect? Could there be traces of an even earlier series of settlements beneath the ruins now known as Arkaim? The level of sophistication it took to build such structures is evidence that there had to already be in place, for many centuries, a system of technological skill capable of such feats. Many of the structures throughout Europe and other parts of the world, have been dated based on the existence on certain organic materials found in or around the site. When the organic materials actually were placed there is not always certain. There is no way of determining the date when great blocks of stone were cut and quarried and put into place. Furthermore, even with organic materials, carbon-14 dating relies on the interaction of certain radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere with the organic molecules. If those interactions were at all different due to different atmospheric conditions that are not present today the age could also be mistaken. It is clear that our methods of dating are not perfectly sound, and that Stonehenge, Callanish, even Gobekli Tepe could date back far earlier. Scholar Kevin MacDonald, editor of The Occidental Quarterly, claimed the white race is some 50,000 years old. Remains corresponding to the Europeans of today, showing the same anatomical pattern, suggest that Europeans could have been building structures many tens of thousands of years into the past. The Sanskrit writings of India describe an infinite remoteness for Aryan prehistory, and a destruction and regeneration of civilization that has been going on for an infinite amount of time. The main focus of any investigation of the lost cities of Arkaim must be how, if this is indeed the Urheimat, the ancestral Proto-Indo-European homeland, what made this great civilization of pre-literate Aryans sprout out in so many different locations, as Marc Roland points. Do their religious beliefs correspond with Indo-Aryan and other Indo-European peoples, their apparent descendants? What caused an end to this impressive civilization? What genetic evidence links them to current Aryan populations of the Earth?
In the Near East, in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates River, the region was first settled around 5000 B.C. by a group of Mediterranean whites and some early Nordic tribes known collectively as the Ubaidians. Marc Roland suggests that the Ubaidians could have possibly evolved from the Samarran culture of what is now northern Iraq (circa 5500-4800 B.C.). As author Arthur Kemp points out, “These original whites were conquered by a new white tribe, the Sumerians, in 3250 B.C. These people gave their name to the region “Sumer.” This means Southerner and they probably were the same group of proto-Aryans who built Gobekli Tepe and the other cities of southern Asia Minor such as Catal Huyok.” “In the centuries that followed their immigration,” Kemp writes, “the country grew rich and powerful. Art and architecture, crafts, and religious and ethical thought flourished.”
Ancient Egypt, despite its current, predominately dark Semitic Arab population, started as a white Mediterranean civilization and many times throughout its early history received an influx of Nordic migrations, followed by at least two Indo-European-speaking populations, which manifested themselves among the ruling elite of Egyptian society. Indo-European invaders aside, Egypt developed its own unique language. Most of the Nordic tribes were not Indo-European-speaking and created a society far different to its Indo-Aryan neighbors to the East. The prehistoric origins of Egyptian civilization can be traced to desert-dwelling Mediterraneans who lived in the deserts, rock faces and caves directly to the south of Upper Egypt near in around were Nubia established itself a few millennia later. These central Saharran Mediterraneans transported their ritual stellar science from Nabta Playa to the Nile Valley about 6300 B.C.–the standing stones of the Nabta Playa “teaches about the entire prececession cycle of the sky, speaking to its ancient user about two time period—5000 B.C., before then, circa 16,500 BC, brackering the time the ancient Egyptians as Zep Tepi, the first, the origin point of civilization itself.” (Brophy, 140) The source of the English word Aryan comes from the Sanskrit wordarya. The name means “noble” or of “venerable parentage”. In Hindu mythology they were known as the Shining Ones, the symbol of which was the familiar sign of the swastika. Many other cultures also refer to their noble peoples as the Shining Ones. This term also applied to the mortals during the First Time, or Zep Tepi of ancient Egypt, the South American Vericochas, the Seven Sages of Mesopotamia, the Mesoamerican gods such as Quetzalcoatl and Kukalkan and many others. We see a cross-cultural tradition, that can only lead to a common source. What if our tales of great gods who civilized the untamed masses of humanity in remote prehistory were not ancient aliens but in fact an ancient powerful race of human beings, with sophisticated astronomical and astrological knowledge, who gave primitive people technology following a great cataclysm in the distant past?
The Aryan invaders of not only India, but many lands, not military conquest but a voyage of proto-Aryans in a very distant age, seems a far cry from the visions of the 19th century. Marc Roland writes:
Until the late 20th century, prehistorians portrayed the invaders as crude barbarians belonging to a relatively backward society, culturally inferior to the Indus Valley civilizers they displaced. That depiction was discarded in summer 1987, when Russian archaeologist, Gennady Borisovich Zdanovich, led his colleagues from Chelyabinsk, a major industrial city located on the border of Europe and Asia, into the remoteness of the soouthern Urals steppe. They weere part of a larger team of scientists surveying the region in advanced of its flooding to make way for an extensive resrvoir project.”
This site exploded with finds. It soon became a hub of one of the most significant archaeological and cultural sites in all of Mother Russia. There is a certain degree of silence concerning Arkaim to the outside world. Despite the fact that 4,000 tourists visit it each Summer Solstice, its pet name “Swastika City” might be the reason Westerners turn a cold shoulder to it. But it is of tremendous significance to the West regardless. It is pivotal to understanding the development of not only Slavonic history, or that of the Indo-Aryans but of Western Europe in general. If one can imagine, it is here, perhaps more than any other site in the world, that we can see a glimpse of that great ancestral people from which sprung the lords of present humanity. Its name is properly picked, however, since examples of the hooked cross fill the site, ornamenting numerous artifacts. The site itself may even be built based on the shape of a swastika. The fact that the site has numerous burials, featuring some of the oldest known chariots, what Marc Roland calls the panzer tanks of the Bronze Age, dating back to 5600 BC, the oldest known chariots in existence, and other ancient objects which tell the same story, in physical reality, that is described in the Hindu Rig Vedas.
The city seems to have been evacuated. Its is barren. No jewelry, artworks or inscribed texts. The city of Arkaim was set fire to, probably by its own inhabitants. No evidence of conquest, or military operations have been discovered at or near the site. No humans remains have been found either. The site seems to be continuously inhabited for some two centuries, then mysteriously abandoned for some unknown reason.
In his 2012 article, Marc Roland writes:
Archaeologists are sure, however, these settlements derived from the Sintashta-Petrovka culture that dominated the northern Eurasian steppe on the borders of Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 2100 to 1800 B.C. The Sintashta-Petrovka Aryans were inventors of the chariot, hard-riding horsemen, far-ranging cattle-herders, busy copper miners and skilled bronze workers—professions that typified the residents of Arkaim.
A helicopter flight above Arkaim gives you an incredible impression,” sayus Zdanovixch. “The huge concentric circles in the valley are clearly visible. The town and its outskirts are all enclosed in the circles.” (Roland, 2012)
The city itself, suprisingly, is constructed in a similar way to Atlantis, as described by Plato. This might suggest that early, proto-literate Aryan civilization maintained this system of concentric rings in their cities, thereby indicating wherever Atlantis was, whether the Black Sea, the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, that this style is consistent with Aryan design. Furthermore, when one examines the structure of the main city of Arkaim which was the first of many settlements to be discovered, it follows a pattern not dissimilar to the Swastika. One might point out that the earliest known Swastika dates back to 15,000 B.C in Ukraine, carved a piece a mammoth ivory. In fact, the symbol of the swastika may be far older than we think.
The maternal bloodline of today’s white Europeans can be traced back 50,000 years ago to a vast migration from the Pakistani Gulf region. This migration had them skirt around the Libyan and Arabian deserts by penetrating the legendary Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates. Just prior to this exodus, around 55,000 – 65,000 years ago, the world had descended into an Ice Age. During this time the Ice Sheets made the Fertile Crescent impossible to pass. Around 51,000 years a 5,000 year warming trend began that provided for a more ariable and sustainable environment which increased the population of South Asia and pushed forth a major migration out of India and westward toward Europe.
The first culture of Europe was known as the Aurignacians, and they were the primary root race of subsequent European populations. This culture, characteristiced by distinctive stone tools, emerged in Europe in Bulgaria some 50,000 years ago. Their path took them up the Danube, into Hungary then Westward into what is now Austria. They also moved southward into Italty, and occupied the Mediterranean coast. They then made their way across the Pyrenees, reaching, eventually, the Portuguese Atlantic coast by 40,000 B.C. At the time of this migration, the Black Sea was a lake, with a western landbridge connecting Europe with the rest of Eurasia. The Caucasus Mountains formed a formidable barrier east of the Black Sea, but many stalwart travelers managed to overcome this obstacle. The Caucuses were linked to sites in the Don River Valley, Russia, dating some 42,000 years ago. This included the site of Kostenki 14. Here, a complete skeleton of an ancient proto-Aryan was discovered. Carbon-14 dating dated the skeleton to between 38,700 to 36,200 years old. It was this skeleton that proved the evolution of the modern Aryan phenotype had already been in the process of forming. This was the earliest discovered human skull in Europe at present. His remains yielded a large amount of viable DNA. The results show he has much in common with European hunter-gatherers of the period but also with a 24,000 year old boy from Mal’ta in Central Siberia. His DNA was unique, however, and was not consistent with modern Europeans. His Y-DNA proved to be haplogroup C1, which is virtually unheard of in modern European populations. His mtDNA haplogroup was U2. Most of the satisfactorily tested mtDNA from Old Stone Age Europeans are consistent with these results. The rest of the DNA seems to have descended from haplogroups found in South Asia, the Indian subcontinent.
Starting around 13,000 years ago there seems to be an explosion of Aryan culture throughout Europe, Central and South Asia and North Africa. It seems to be the result of previous cross pollination of primordial, pre-literate proto-Aryan cultures. Its seems that by 9600 B.C both Gobekli Tepe and the city of Urfa in prehistoric Turkey, as well as sites in Southern Siberia, Afghanistan, Iran and Northern Europe exploded with culture and sophistication. The Sanskrit writings of India may offer a partly mythological explanation to this reality, but one that it is not devoid of scientific evidence to back it up. The Rig Vedas as well as other sacred writings tells us that the civilization of the Aryas, or the Shining Ones, date back to an infinitely ancient time. The ruling class of cultures from Mesoamerica, Indonesia to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Old Persia and India, refer again and again to the Shining Ones or the holiest of peoples.
This author has long maintained the validity of the Aryan Migration Theory, however, when one considers how ancient the various sites around the world are, and how so many are linked to even more ancient sites in both Europe and India, this persistent reliance on the Aryan invasion theory dissipated. Further research pointed to the fact that the earliest migrations of people into Europe began in South Asia, and that there are many legends of a sunken land mass off the coast of India. In the Rig Veda, it was called the lost city of Dwarka, ruled by Krishna the human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. India is the only culture now consisting of non-white Europeans, who have both genetic, historical and linguistic links to Europe as well as a mythology ever closely related to that of Druidism, and many of the mythical gods of European origin. Graham Hancock attempted to explain in his book Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization. “There can be little serious doubt,” Hancock writes, “that the evolution and lengthy survival of the Aryan invasion theory was underpinned by the ingrained conviction on the part of European scholars that the presence in India of a “superior” language such as Sanskrit that was related to European languages must imply a movement of that language from Europe to India in remote prehistory rather than from India to Europe.” But essentially, I believe that is the case, that our civilization, our white Aryan civilization, got its start in India, but not in some remote monsoon swept rain forest but north to the Kush mountains and the Himilayas. Some have stated that the original Nordic race was born from Central Europe to what is now Moscow southwest into Asia minor, that was the birthplace of the white race its official domain. If so, then perhaps Arkaim was not the first habitation but a place in which the Nordic Aryan evolved culturally and linguistically and became the Old Persians, Slavonic and Indo-Aryans.
Source: http://www.renegadetribune.com/arkaim-swastika-city-tells-us-aryan-origins/
