Starlady knows (because I've been picking her brain about it <g>) that I'm dealing with that "different view of reality" thing in a Japanese context, for an urban fantasy proposal. WASP U.S./British assumptions (because 99% of the urban fantasy I've seen is set in one of those two countries -- mostly the U.S.) for what people think of as "real" and what they think of as "magic" are not universal by a long shot, and that changes the whole genre landscape.