Comment Re:Sounds like a step backwards to me (Score 2) 131
my sister loves the japanese culture and besides learning to draw anime she took kendo sword fighting classes, japanese history classes, learned to speak japanese (and speaks it around her house, even though she knows you can't understand her), learned to write kanji and katakana, and is saving up for a trip to visit. she has a real interest, not a fleeting ADD version of "ooh shiny culture, what's tha-- oooh shiny culture over here too"