From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:36:09 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivy Yap" <yapivy at techemail.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon

> --- "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
> <snipped fascinating first-hand account of battling to get Worldcon
overseas>
> >>>>
> So how about a Japanese Worldcon?    It has two strikes against it for
most Americans and Brits:  First, it's almost as far away -- and expensive
to get to -- as Australia.  And second, it's a distinctly more alien
culture, non-English-speaking, and thus perceived by many as less
hospitable.  Plus (maybe strike three) it's a Damned Expensive country --
at least in the cities where a Worldcon could be held.  Just one strike
might not be a problem, but two or more strikes are.
> <<<<
>
> Ivy:
> Japan may be alien to Westerners, and it is admittedly
non-English-speaking.  I dunno, I guess I expected SF fans to be a bit more
adventurous and willing to wander off the beaten (Western) track.

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I think that the majority were once.  But now "fandom" (the part that goes
to Worldcons) reflects the attitudes of the general population ("mundanes")
more exactly.

--Ted White