Mobile phones making monkeys out of Japanese

[kokumo]

Nobuo Masataka, a professor at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and author of the monster best seller "Keitai wo Motta Saru (Monkeys With Mobile Phones)," argues that the proliferation of mobile phones has got young Japanese making monkeys of themselves, aping the behavior patterns of chimpanzees

Somehow, I'm not so sure his observations are that culturally specific....

Full story at:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20051110p2g00m0dm013000c.html

[Saburo]

The monkeys didn't fall far from the trees?

[fifthchamber]

A lot of the kids I teach would still be thick even without the Keitai...
I shouldn't admit that online should I???.......