Pourquoi les autobus scolaire japonais sont plus cool que les notres??

Normalement j'aurais mis ce post dans la section général. Mais l'article parle du concept culturel des japonais du sens du mot ''cute'' ou dans leur langue, ''kawaii''. Nous en tant que otaku fans du japons, nous savons tous ce que signifie ce genre de mot....mais savons nous réellement la totalité du sens de ce mot?

Et encore, je ne parle pas encore du sujet plus pousser qui est l'essence du mot ''moe'' qui est un concept encore plus profond.

Un article ici d'une personne qui nous donne une explication culturel des japonais qu'il ont du concept ''kawaii'', entre autre sur le sujet de :: pourquoi les autobus scolaire japonais sont plus cool que les notres??

sérieux c'est vrai! regardez moi ca!! l'autobus pikachu a de la gueule non? Moi qui reste directement sur le coin de l'école iberville et qui se tape des tonnes d'autobus a chaque année.... j’apprécierais tellement que les autobus aurais l'air de ce genre de truc!!

bon j'ai pas pris la peine de googler pour trouver d'autre image d'autobus, mais si vous en trouvez, poster les ici a la suite.

voici l'article.

Remember going to school as a little kid? Specifically, think about
that moment in the morning, waiting outside in the cold, barely awake
and wondering if you actually did your math homework or just dreamed you
did. Now picture seeing the school bus come lumbering down the street
to collect you. What's the feeling in your gut? If you're like
most American kids, that feeling is likely somewhere between a slow,
sinking feeling and a quick kick to the pelvis. But what if that bus
looked like a rocket or a giant kitty or a Pikachu or something? Silly,
maybe, but I can't imagine a little kid that wouldn't feel at least a
bit better about the whole school thing if they had a bus like that.
The thing is, kids in Japan do have buses like that.
It's worth doing a quick Google search of Japanese school buses. You'll see a fun-filled menagerie of animals (including native Japanese fauna like the Pikachu (Pokemensis Electronia)),
aircraft, spaceships, anthropomorphized buses, and all manner of things
that aren't plain, boring buses. Having one of those — or even better, a
random selection from a pool of those — come get you every morning
would turn a somewhat grim daily routine for a little kid into an
engaging daily ritual.
Compare that to the school buses we use in the USA; or, maybe even better, compare these two types of buses used in the US:

One's
a school bus, which we pack our beloved kids onto, and the other is a
prison bus, which we pack our beloved murders and meth-heads onto. You
know what the difference is in these two buses? Color. Oh, and some
window bars, though I wouldn't be shocked to see those on some school
buses as well.
So why do Japanese kids get fun school buses and American kids get yellow versions of prison buses? I don't think we in America want
our kids not to have fun at school, but I think culturally we don't
feel as comfortable with such blatant displays of whimsy. Japanese kids
certainly take school as seriously as Americans, and possibly more so,
often to unfortunate extremes.
So I don't think the idea that the US feels school needs to be taken
more seriously is it — I think it's a more general cultural divide.
The Japanese have some common concepts that we don't really have in much of the west, the especially relevant one being kawaii.
Essentially, kawaii just means "cute" but in Japanese culture, there is
a much more un-self conscious love of cute. Cute things pop up
everywhere — industrial robots sing little electronic songs, guard rails
are in the shape of little animals, sections of Tokyo all have their
own little mascots. Enjoying cute things isn't considered necessarily
infantilizing or not empowering, so there's less restriction.
That
means if you can make a school bus cute and fun, why not do it? Sure,
there's some extra costs, but the value of keeping kids excited to go to
school must make that equation make sense. Without as an agressive
cute-stigmatization, you can have a giant cat school bus and not worry
that people won't perceive your school as a serious institution of
learning. I don't think that would be the case in the US.
Also,
there's a history in Japan of imbuing objects with, while not exactly
something like a soul, some sort of feeling. Concepts like wabi-sabi and wu-wei
from Japanese philosophy allow objects to contain a certain ability to
hold and express a feeling. It's not exactly saying they're alive or
anything, but it does open a society up to accepting the idea of objects
as things that can be related with beyond simple physical interactions.
These are also the same reasons (I think) why Japan has proven to be so
much more willing to accept robots into their culture and identity.
So,
why do Japanese kids get so much more fun school buses? Because they
let themselves do it. I wouldn't mind seeing a bit of this influence
come to the US, so my son can be ferried to school by rocket every
morning, and brought home by puppy. That seems pretty good to me.