It's possible that our age group in the USA -- and Japan too -- are more conservative than those older and younger than us, as we grew up in conservative times. One of my earliest pre-teen television memories is the broadcast of the Asama Sanso (Mount Asama Villa) incident in 1972, the nadir and endgame of the (long) 60s' radicalism; the 80s in Japan, during which I went to college, made many Japanese feel like economic growth would never end. Growing up in the USA during the same decades would have meant growing up in the times of the great conservative counter-offensive. -- Yoshie
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