I find it fascinating, and not always in positive ways. A place so utterly devoted to a single pursuit — the care and training of Pokemon — seems stagnant and pale to me. The palette of a culture is its ideas, and its artists are the innovators who push the existing boundaries in the pursuit of new perspectives. I haven't seen much, if any, of that here in Johto, where they seem to paint with only one color and a single brush.
The people, on the other hand, have given me a great deal to be fond of.
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The people, on the other hand, have given me a great deal to be fond of.