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.
this is much smaller potatoes compared to what japan has done across asia, but it’s an issue that hits close to home. to legally transition, you have to A. be sterilized, B. have no kids (under age 20), and C. be single.
it’s Not a good look and i’ve been very much wanting to complain about it.
in Japan for instance it’s pretty ok to be gender nonconformist and has been for a long time
Hm, I’d have to say that I’d have to do an examination of modern Japanese culture but from my studies into the history of Japan from the cold war back Japan’s gone through a cultural transformation stemming from the Meij era that changed Japan’s attitude towards gender from being that of a more open and non-conformist to a more western orientated cultural perspective on gender norms due to it’s drive towards “modernization” in order to not be swallowed up by western imperialists.
The ‘County’ that I live in is Kyosanto which is the Japanese communist party. It’s growing. Sure, it’s a minority nationally but at least Japan has more than 2 identical parties…
I don’t think Korea’s history allows them to be true believers. Capitalism is likely to be embeded in ‘tribal’ terms ROK = good, ROK = capitalist, ergo capitalist=good contrast to Communism = DPRK = bad. So they’ll view capitalism from their experience which is an outlier globally.
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:
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.
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.
Japan is legitimately an existential threat to the global revolution and progress, not a joke. Their media empire promoting reactionary regressive messages (read: anime) is immensely popular worldwide, pushing an entire generation of teens into the edge of fascism where they can be easily reeled in further.
I’m not memeing, this is really disconcerting.
I don’t think that it’s quite as bad as you are making it out to be. Anime as a whole is more polarized than western media, and yes, a lot of it is fucking reactionary, but so is most western media. But there is also a lot of stuff with solid left themes (e.g. Psycho Pass). I agree however that there are a lot of really disgusting shows that have become mainstream in recent times. But is it really reflective of the whole medium that there are very shitty popular shows?
I don’t even think that anime overall is more reactionary than Hollywood.
Their media empire promoting reactionary regressive messages (read: anime) is immensely popular worldwide, pushing an entire generation of teens into the edge of fascism where they can be easily reeled in further.
Uh… considering how popular anime is on like, every leftist community online I don’t know how accurate this is
