I SAID IT! FUCK JAPAN! It’s the uninterrupted continuation of Imperial Japan, and it unilaterally deserves it’s just condemnation for the horror it’s wrecked across Asia.
i cant help but be a bit annoyed when people praise japanese culture bc so much of it is linked to the imperial era that i have i hard time accepting it as a part of me, even innocuous irrelevant shit like food. it makes me feel like an antideutsch sometimes. like bushido, which is more of a post feudal construct than an actual existing moral code. idk i just feel that the only non-white cultures westerners will accept and be interested in are like japanese and korean (just kpop really). like all i ever hear about in the western internet when it comes to foreign media is just anime this anime that and its kinda tiring. like why not give fucking idk bollywood a try or something. i just dont think we’re inherently anymore interesting than any other country to justify the attention we get. :stalin-stressed:
I will say, part of the anime and kpop obsession is because that’s what the ruling class imports. We were shown anime as kids, that’s what they ran, not bollywood films. Although the same sort of mechanism introduced a lot of black people ( and others ofc ) in the US to Chinese cinema, so you can see how this kind of works.
This is a very common form of Orientalism.
红茶菌 is called by the Japanese name “kombucha” in English but is not Japanese, it is from China and Russia. In Japanese “kombucha” does not even refer to this drink! 红茶菌 is simply translated fungus red tea, and it is called similar in Russian.
