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Too Busy for Japan Clubs
The modern day saying "I'm too busy to join a club" is the reason most often that people are not joining in the post-internet age. Many clubs are losing members to age, weaker community ties, and then they shut down as a pattern for clubs that could not adapt to the social needs of todays people. The most common response from long time members are "Kids these days are too selfish" or "They aren't interested in this sort of thing". People may have seemed more committed pre-internet age, but people are possibly more committed now and engaging online as well as offline. A challenge that many club leaders face is the lack of people coming to offline meetings ([?] transportation, [-] feuling costs, [-] time costs), boosting membership from all age groups, and soliciting new members has not worked. Things are quite noticeable as (1) Long-term Members pass away, (2) Members move away, and (3) Recruited remain uninterested. Many clubs that meet this road block end up closing down either from declining member that starts at a good amount and slowly drops off, until even the leader loses enthusiasm, so what gives?
The modern day saying "I'm too busy to join a club" is the reason most often that people are not joining in the post-internet age. Many clubs are losing members to age, weaker community ties, and then they shut down as a pattern for clubs that could not adapt to the social needs of todays people. The most common response from long time members are "Kids these days are too selfish" or "They aren't interested in this sort of thing". People may have seemed more committed pre-internet age, but people are possibly more committed now and engaging online as well as offline. A challenge that many club leaders face is the lack of people coming to offline meetings ([?] transportation, [-] feuling costs, [-] time costs), boosting membership from all age groups, and soliciting new members has not worked. Things are quite noticeable as (1) Long-term Members pass away, (2) Members move away, and (3) Recruited remain uninterested. Many clubs that meet this road block end up closing down either from declining member that starts at a good amount and slowly drops off, until even the leader loses enthusiasm, so what gives?
Japan Fun in the Ways of the Past is Not Japan Club Fun Today
Clubs were made to have "fun" when people were bored and wanted to socialize and meet people and gather. Each generation has to have a lot of fun with the group and that changes with every generation and a club needs to adapt or fizzle out. With an entire Japan Club generation having fun wit activities like Community Service (lack of civic spirit), Video Viewings (can be done at home), Bingo (uncharacteristic of club specifics game), and Genealogy Tracing (too time consuming) can no longer keep clubs alive as such ideas are niche interests that are no-longer massively appealing. It came to a point where people would join a club, because of societal expectation, and once that was lost the easiest reason to join was lost, so its a subject of discussion.
People use to join because of "Old Fashion Benefits", like: Leading Research Authority as people want self-led journeys of knowledge. Annual Conference Invitation which rarely brings interest as invitation seems to be expected rather than special in the modern day. By word of mouth someone said they should join by seeing others who prompt them through time and money, but if people aren't interested they still will not come on their own or come again as it is seen as a favor or tiresome obligation. Maybe it was their parents telling them to go as "Family Obligation", it was during school time or work time and was a "Excursion Excuse", maybe they feel they have to go because of "Genealogical Guilt", or there friends of a likewise age only make time to be at the group and don't meet up to hang out. So why is it so hard to draw in people who aren't so interested in those old fashion benefits these days?
In the Club Golden age of the 1960s,1970s, and 1980s there were fewer organizations to build community around like Associations, Religious Institutions, Hobby Groups, and Alumnae groups. Add in the online competition of such groups with their online presence and their collaboration projects with national and global groups with similar interest and the scope and reach become much more clear how clubs have evolved. What use to be the "Yamaguchi Prefecture Club" back in the day would now have micro-associations (disciplines) with group-choice (possibility) with niche-appeal (focus) that make it much easier to know what made them want to join or why they should join or to not join at all based on the perceived opportunities available from the group.
Clubs were made to have "fun" when people were bored and wanted to socialize and meet people and gather. Each generation has to have a lot of fun with the group and that changes with every generation and a club needs to adapt or fizzle out. With an entire Japan Club generation having fun wit activities like Community Service (lack of civic spirit), Video Viewings (can be done at home), Bingo (uncharacteristic of club specifics game), and Genealogy Tracing (too time consuming) can no longer keep clubs alive as such ideas are niche interests that are no-longer massively appealing. It came to a point where people would join a club, because of societal expectation, and once that was lost the easiest reason to join was lost, so its a subject of discussion.
People use to join because of "Old Fashion Benefits", like: Leading Research Authority as people want self-led journeys of knowledge. Annual Conference Invitation which rarely brings interest as invitation seems to be expected rather than special in the modern day. By word of mouth someone said they should join by seeing others who prompt them through time and money, but if people aren't interested they still will not come on their own or come again as it is seen as a favor or tiresome obligation. Maybe it was their parents telling them to go as "Family Obligation", it was during school time or work time and was a "Excursion Excuse", maybe they feel they have to go because of "Genealogical Guilt", or there friends of a likewise age only make time to be at the group and don't meet up to hang out. So why is it so hard to draw in people who aren't so interested in those old fashion benefits these days?
In the Club Golden age of the 1960s,1970s, and 1980s there were fewer organizations to build community around like Associations, Religious Institutions, Hobby Groups, and Alumnae groups. Add in the online competition of such groups with their online presence and their collaboration projects with national and global groups with similar interest and the scope and reach become much more clear how clubs have evolved. What use to be the "Yamaguchi Prefecture Club" back in the day would now have micro-associations (disciplines) with group-choice (possibility) with niche-appeal (focus) that make it much easier to know what made them want to join or why they should join or to not join at all based on the perceived opportunities available from the group.
Japan Club Competence
Japan Club Competence isn't only about what the club already knows from its senior members, but also what new members and casual members can teach about subjects through their own lense. It seems like recruiting members became harder and and being curious was not as common with academic systems of modern day pointing out someone is wrong in a class when asking a question through indirect toxic positivity. A question that often times pops up is "What can I do to learn more about the prefecture the club is associated to?" to learn all that they can first about the "Focused Prefecture", then the "Personal Connection" and opportunity for social growth, and lastly the "Online Engagement". These are essential as the journey of understanding and being self competent of the prefecture focus is based on teaching members about: (1) the birth of member ideas and collaborative research, (2) finding their own personal connection to the prefecture with their own life story, (3) how learning things about the focus prefecture can be useful to them personally.
Ageless Attraction to Knowledge
There are somethings that are ageless in keeping people interested that clubs have been doing since the Literary-Age: (1) Knowledge appeal hasn't changed, since older members donate their collections of books, items, and decorations to provide accessible materials that may be unique to the club it acts as a unique resource. (2) Special Events always were a necessity with specific characteristics of dressing up (Yukata) to make it feel special, special food (sushi, tea, snacks), and special discussions that would be previously decided from the club-theme (Japan). Working with academics, education institutions, and similar clubs in collaborations show a club has life to it. (3) The connection the place with being official with the actual prefecture or having enough examples of how they do it in Japan and that prefecture and how there are similarities and differences with where the club originates.
Level of Commitment
The Role of Japan clubs, because even though they all like Japan there has to be a real definition of a given club of the reason behind its establishment. While some are based on the culture and traditions of the people of the area from where the club originates, others may be found on the interests of the prefecture that is being focused on that they like. When a person joins a club they are either an person from the prefecture for Kenjin-Kai or a hang-out member that joins meetings for the experience of club activities, organized by club members, for the Japan interested. This means there is a difference in commitment by the members based on their interest of the celebration of Japan or their chosen prefecture from just being at meetings to having a bond with self-discipline and getting involved in organizing club related projects.
With competence, knowledge, and commitment will determine the presence and accomplishments of the club itself. It is necessary for groups to realize this if their clubs are going to have the impact they are looking for in spreading awareness and making a difference in how it was intended to. Suiting peoples interest will also determine their commitment level and their need for knowledge as many people entering a club may not exactly know what route they want to take or if they are even interested in anything in Japan or the Prefecture.
Japan Club Competence isn't only about what the club already knows from its senior members, but also what new members and casual members can teach about subjects through their own lense. It seems like recruiting members became harder and and being curious was not as common with academic systems of modern day pointing out someone is wrong in a class when asking a question through indirect toxic positivity. A question that often times pops up is "What can I do to learn more about the prefecture the club is associated to?" to learn all that they can first about the "Focused Prefecture", then the "Personal Connection" and opportunity for social growth, and lastly the "Online Engagement". These are essential as the journey of understanding and being self competent of the prefecture focus is based on teaching members about: (1) the birth of member ideas and collaborative research, (2) finding their own personal connection to the prefecture with their own life story, (3) how learning things about the focus prefecture can be useful to them personally.
Ageless Attraction to Knowledge
There are somethings that are ageless in keeping people interested that clubs have been doing since the Literary-Age: (1) Knowledge appeal hasn't changed, since older members donate their collections of books, items, and decorations to provide accessible materials that may be unique to the club it acts as a unique resource. (2) Special Events always were a necessity with specific characteristics of dressing up (Yukata) to make it feel special, special food (sushi, tea, snacks), and special discussions that would be previously decided from the club-theme (Japan). Working with academics, education institutions, and similar clubs in collaborations show a club has life to it. (3) The connection the place with being official with the actual prefecture or having enough examples of how they do it in Japan and that prefecture and how there are similarities and differences with where the club originates.
Level of Commitment
The Role of Japan clubs, because even though they all like Japan there has to be a real definition of a given club of the reason behind its establishment. While some are based on the culture and traditions of the people of the area from where the club originates, others may be found on the interests of the prefecture that is being focused on that they like. When a person joins a club they are either an person from the prefecture for Kenjin-Kai or a hang-out member that joins meetings for the experience of club activities, organized by club members, for the Japan interested. This means there is a difference in commitment by the members based on their interest of the celebration of Japan or their chosen prefecture from just being at meetings to having a bond with self-discipline and getting involved in organizing club related projects.
With competence, knowledge, and commitment will determine the presence and accomplishments of the club itself. It is necessary for groups to realize this if their clubs are going to have the impact they are looking for in spreading awareness and making a difference in how it was intended to. Suiting peoples interest will also determine their commitment level and their need for knowledge as many people entering a club may not exactly know what route they want to take or if they are even interested in anything in Japan or the Prefecture.
Growing Up with the Club
Many people are introduced from their family or they spent time seeing the club being out there in public or just knew about it, but, they might have grown up with it in their own way. People growing up with the club can go one of two ways: the first way is to follow everything that they are told and do what the club is instructing. These sorts of people in the club don't need to see why they should go, because they already are attending, but if they start falling off maybe they don't really believe in the activities and discussions of the group or it just don't relate to them in anyway and seems a bit irrelevant of meaning or personal connection to their life at that time. A club always has to be on its toes as growing up with a club gets many people in the door, but it doesn't keep them.
The second way is they grow up with the club and they go their own route (freedom of choice) that can be beneficial with doing something different, but more often than not it's done with the blinders on without critically thinking about what is beneficial or harmful in a pursuit of the personal choice or the group suggested choice. Critical thinking is important in knowing why you are with a club through its relevance, contemporary outlook, and adapting to the times or staying locked in a generational time capsule. If things are layed out where they are getting support you can tell in the actions or what they might say. They are going to just not really want to go to the club on their own accord, so gathered together are some of the usual social-removal comments: "I went to club meetings because my parents", "I would try to avoid it by being busy to skip it, if i could", "I would be that person saying I don't know" to avoid trying to know about it.
Club has its own sort of culture
Clubs are seen as a place of social gathering and teaching with members being teachers with a bit of book worm learning saying "You really need to do this", "You need to know", "You need to try this", but a club may lack such passion for the research and participation for al sorts of reasons and those reasons help you better understand why members aren't trying those things.
have discussion topics attached to specific pursuits that might be changed bi-yearly, and allow people to educate themselves alone as well with books made by documents from the club.
Many people are introduced from their family or they spent time seeing the club being out there in public or just knew about it, but, they might have grown up with it in their own way. People growing up with the club can go one of two ways: the first way is to follow everything that they are told and do what the club is instructing. These sorts of people in the club don't need to see why they should go, because they already are attending, but if they start falling off maybe they don't really believe in the activities and discussions of the group or it just don't relate to them in anyway and seems a bit irrelevant of meaning or personal connection to their life at that time. A club always has to be on its toes as growing up with a club gets many people in the door, but it doesn't keep them.
The second way is they grow up with the club and they go their own route (freedom of choice) that can be beneficial with doing something different, but more often than not it's done with the blinders on without critically thinking about what is beneficial or harmful in a pursuit of the personal choice or the group suggested choice. Critical thinking is important in knowing why you are with a club through its relevance, contemporary outlook, and adapting to the times or staying locked in a generational time capsule. If things are layed out where they are getting support you can tell in the actions or what they might say. They are going to just not really want to go to the club on their own accord, so gathered together are some of the usual social-removal comments: "I went to club meetings because my parents", "I would try to avoid it by being busy to skip it, if i could", "I would be that person saying I don't know" to avoid trying to know about it.
Club has its own sort of culture
Clubs are seen as a place of social gathering and teaching with members being teachers with a bit of book worm learning saying "You really need to do this", "You need to know", "You need to try this", but a club may lack such passion for the research and participation for al sorts of reasons and those reasons help you better understand why members aren't trying those things.
have discussion topics attached to specific pursuits that might be changed bi-yearly, and allow people to educate themselves alone as well with books made by documents from the club.
What is the Role of Clubs in the 21st Century
Clubs in the 19th century were a social gathering place (offline-meetings) much like how the social gathering platform (online-meetings) are these days. Clubs were the only way to gather people of a similar interest to come together and organize, however that role these days is filled by online groups and the word itself club that means to cluster or gather has become old fashioned in its foreseen limitations in long-term engagement. Eventually clubs would have permanent institutions they were attached to as a base of regular presence, specific purpose projects for permanency of character, proper documentation, payed a fee for this place, and it would be the clubhouse or club meet-up with places like coffee houses, tea houses, and other drink based establishments were the "clubhouses of the time" with a sense of what was deemed "cool". There were also Residential Clubs where there would be hotels, inns, and other places to stay for ex-members, overseas guests, and creating a sense of convenience and low-cost solutions. These were the bare minimum requirements of what was used back then and are expectations of people today to have a similar experience.
Clubs in the 20th century
Busy Working and Hustling, Busy Raising Families, Busy in more Relevant Groups
Friendship isn't the same as it use to be
Dating isn't the same as it use to be
Community isn't the same as it use to be
Technology social requirements of society have made many ways to help and inform one another as well as communicate and are seen without touch, hearing, or feeling, but those who seek belonging.
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