Anything that gets pretty Japanese girls to wear kimono more often is a Good Thing, in my humble opinion...
More seriously, it's good for a culture to remember where it came from. (If a people loses their past, how can they know where to go in the future?) And
pop-culture history is just as good as any other sort of history, as long as it's accurate.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
More seriously, it's good for a culture to remember where it came from. (If a people loses their past, how can they know where to go in the future?) And
pop-culture history is just as good as any other sort of history, as long as it's accurate.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012