The East is kinda cool (im no weeb i swear)
interesting thing about japan’s right wing party Liberal Democratic Party that rules the country, is that its not one party but the united front between the liberals and the conservatives of japan against the Japanese Socialist Party (now socdem party of japan) created by famous japanese war criminal Nobusuke Kishi put in his position by the US
Kishi was a A tier war criminal who occupied “Manchukuo” (where I’m from) and his regime was so brutal that one million Chinese laborers had to be enslaved and brought to Manchuria each year for his factories because of how high the casualties were. I love it when the “leader of the free world” appoints a man who raped like 20 women a day to rule “Free Japan”! Very peepopog of the United States :)
they put a Nazi as the first president of west germany and another Nazi in charge of the European economic community, and last they supported literal Fascist parties in italy during their dirty war know as the Years of Leads so the communists and socialists didnt take power, The US loves its WW2 war criminals
My eyes just skipped over a lot of text and I perceived it as Nobusuke Fucking Kishi creating a Socialist party.
Nah, the Socialist Party had a cool guy named Inejirō Asanuma he was sadly killed by a ultra-nationalist during a Tv debate
Japanese salarymen work to death and never see their families
This is one of those little factoids that seem to never really go away. If you look at working hours surveys, Japan is actually pretty average in terms of hours worked:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours
This is not to say that there aren’t many workers being exploited by their employers with crushing working hours, and there’s some methodological problems with these surveys sometimes, but according to the best data we have this stereotype isn’t necessarily true.
The part about the reactionary right wing government is spot on though.
Yeah, they call it “power harassment” and it often goes hand in hand with terrible working conditions and overtime at so-called “black companies”.
A new law recently came into effect to combat it, but only time will tell how well it works.
But anyway, my point is kind of that there are certainly a lot of terrible companies there but there are also normal companies and even some good companies (within the limits of capitalism ofc). I just feel that the common western perception of working in Japan is that everything is a black company, which is certainly not true.
What are the origins of the myth? Is it 1980s Western anxieties about being economically outperformed by a new global superpower? Or was the Japanese media just more willing to focus on the problem of overwork than other countries?
Hard for me to say tbh.
If you look at the data working hours have been declining steadily over the years. It could be the case that this is just old news that refuses to die because there’s no clicks in updating it.
Incidentally, I think this is a big part of why the similarly flawed perception of Japan as the suicide capital of the world continues to spread, despite the stats telling us that Japan is fairly normal.
Another part if the reason could be that there have been several prominent cases of people literally dropping dead due to overwork, which reinforces the perception that this is a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. You only have to look at the people working to death or mental breakdowns in finance and legal roles in London and NYC to see that its not uniquely Japanese.
The last part of it I can think of is that a lot of the exploitative companies are in the English “education” sector, where most English speakers in Japan will have first hand experience. Because of the language barrier, its very easy for disgruntled English “teachers” to spread the image that this is the way Japan is for everyone.
So, from what I’ve been told, while this kind of anime is popular in Japan, the people into are usually viewed somewhat negatively in mainstream Japanese society. Anime and manga are popular but a lot of the more popular stuff over there is fairly normie crap. Being loud and proud about enjoying this kind of stuff, particularly in rural Japan, will probably get you side eyed.
It’s kind like how nerds were viewed 40 years ago or so.
Idk I’m a burly blue collar man who lifts heavy things, enjoys big steaks, guns, whisky and cigars but I think male gender roles are cringe. Let people do what they like. Who fucking cares.
Also why do these people think Marxism is about being a sissy or whatever lol. If anything Communist movements have a bit of a machismo problem.
Im Mexican and the toxic Masculinity created during the “nueva españa” period has brought nothing but harm to the country, we have a serious problem with feminicides and its because of machismo, if marxism makes the machismo dissapear to me its a win-win
You’re referring to the Spanish colonial period or a specific cultural period after Mexico gained independence?
Also, they say the East has gender roles correct, and Marxism is “feminizing” men in the west, but the east is basically the main place where Marxism matters in society at all. Why didn’t Marxism “feminize” the men in China or Vietnam?
I interpreted Owens as saying that Marxism is a kind of mind virus that the East uses to feminize and control its population, which now the East is exporting to the West in order to do the same thing. She doesn’t explain her position well also her position is incoherent gibberish.
Why didn’t Marxism “feminize” the men in China or Vietnam?
also note that Ferris isn’t a man, but actually a trans woman who, with sheer will, has given herself magical estrogen. And iirc Astolfo is an enby. Idk about the rest. (Source: am an /r/animememes mod)
The west is fucked, their historical idols, idolized small penis and effeminate. No I have no sources and will not find any
