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"Turning Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so..."
These are words from a pop song from the early 1980's, which today is remembered by just about everyone I know. Partly it's so memorable because of the absurdly infectious tune, but also the outrageousness of the idea. Turing Japanese? I don't think so. Japan is Japan and Korea is Korea.
And yet one does find oneself becoming Japanese. Probably not in the ways you might expect. I wouldn't, for example, consider changing nationality. I am unlikely to become a fanatical believer in Shinto(神道). Ridiculously, before I first went to Japan, I worried that I would "get rusty" at Korean through speaking "and thinking" in Japanese. Now, I can say with confidence that it is a lot harder to get "polished" at your second language than rusty in your native tongue.
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