On Wapanese

I hate many things, but there is one thing I hate above all else: Wapanese. Even Goths are better than Wapanese and that is saying a lot (no offense to anyone who actually is a Goth, you are better than the Wapanese at least). Even those North Koreans who think Kim Jong-Il is so great don't irritate me as much as Wapanese.

This board and many others are filled with people who idolize Japan as though it were a holy place (and of course they have an analog to the hajj). They download torrents of Japanese commercials! They watch Japanese television and go on about great it is that Japan has the most advanced technology in the world (don't you just want to smack them with a Unabomber's Manifesto?)

However, they gloss over the real Japan, the Japan where women and foreigners are treated terribly and hyperreality engulfs all. Japan, as pointed out in another thread, is the most artificial culture in existance. Wapanese, for some reason, seem ashamed of our "primitive" culture where things are still real.

In short, Wapanese are fooling themselves and living in inauthenticity. If they are so ashamed of US culture (I don't really blame them), they should revolt against it, not look for another culture to obsess on.

~~~Fafemoapiitio te 'oopiitiii faefoootiiiaaiii.~~~

>>45

Unfortunately for you, I do not consider myself American and I'm hardly fat. I am actually quite thin. I abhore nationalism, though. I can't stand listening to Americans go on about how the US is the best nation in the world and your simplistic comment does not impress me.

>>46

So? Are you aware of the massive socialist influences in many manga and anime? Think about the existentialist qualities in Eva (they even named an episode or two after a line from a book by Kierkegaard). Last time I checked, it was Sartre (a diehard Marxist), not Hideaki Anno that existentialism is famous from.

And of course, consider the amount of feminist imagery in many anime series (Misato having major rank in Nerv), which is quite out of place in a misogynistic nation like Japan yet a major part of radical/socialist thought (in fact, many of the early feminist thinkers were also socialists and there is a strong connection between them).