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Old Apr 19, 2005, 11:28 pm
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jpatokal
 
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Originally Posted by Pickles
Yes, that's the place. However, you missed out. The Japanese have refined this "dressed wildly and acting accordingly" to an art form that ends up in the cover of Time Magazine extolling Tokyo as "the capital of cool".
To be more precise, the Japanese wild kids dress wildly in exactly the same style as everybody else in their subcultural group, and any wild acts must be agreed with group concensus, then choreographed and practiced endlessly before actually being attempted in public.
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