Posted on January 18th, 2006 by eightprime. Categories: blog, socio.
A New York Times article on the phenomenon of hikikomori - Japanese youth who withdraw acutely into their own radius contained the following paragraph
Korea and Taiwan have reported a scattering of hikikomori, and isolated cases may have always existed in Japan. But only in the last decade and only in Japan has hikikomori become a social phenomenon. Like anorexia, which has been largely limited to Western cultures, hikikomori is a culturebound syndrome that thrives in one particular country during a particular moment in its history.
There’s something about a site-specific dementia that is very interesting to me. It reminds me of mass hysteria or group hallucination.
-w.
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