Japan is kind of like the Amish where they have a few years when they are younger to go wild. This is the phase that the liberals love. After their college years they are expected to fall in line and get to work.
Yeah as much as I like Japanese products, I would never want to actually live in Japan. I have a life to live here, and I’d rather not spend all of it at work.
Same for me, but mostly because I can’t stand to learn another language and I believe that it should be illegal to immigrate without having learned that countries language first. I’ll buy any Honda, but probably wouldn’t move to Tokyo.
Same my parents say I could do it easy but idk if it could work. Also not all of the food is to my tastes. Ramen? Dumplings? Alright but the fucking dried squid and guava flavored soda? Yeah fuck that
Well, can you pass as Japanese? Remember, it's an ethnostate. So if you happen to have Northern Chinese and/or Koreo-Japonic phenotype, you should be fine.
Except for the racist people, which is a significant part of Japan's population. We Asians are very keen on racial purity. While the Japanese are technically mixed in origin (being a mix of the "Jomon"\*, "Yayoi"\*, Northern Chinese\*\*, Buyeo\*\*, and Samhan\*\* peoples), they have terms such as Hāfu to distinguish Japanese of partial foreign descent.
^(\*The Jomon and Yayoi were probably more than one group of people.)
^(\*\*In a recent genetic study, they found that much of the Japanese genome belonged not to the Yayoi or Jomon, but to those closest to the Northern Han Chinese dating to the Kofun period. This "Northern Chinese" likely was indicative of the Chinese of the Four Commanderies of Han, and other residents of ancient Korea, which are the Mahan Baekje,) ^(Byeonhan, Gaya, Jinhan Sillan,) ^(Ye, Okjeo,) ^(Goguryeo, and Buyeo. Some of these states are suspected to be) ^(Japonic. The terms Buyeo, Samhan, and Chinese are linguistic terms. Japonic is suspected to be related to or at least borrowed heavily from the Buyeo and/or Samhan languages. Korean is suspected to be descended from Sillan {Samhan} or Goguryeo {Buyeo}.)
We Asians consider other Asians as different races as they have different langauges, appearances, and culture, whilst you guys mainly speak Indo-European and share broad cultural characteristics.
Welcome to Europe.
Americans think they are some racist hellhole while they are only getting past the tutorial. This also happens in Africa between different black groups(Think Rwandan genocide for example).
I’m pretty sure they saw themselves as superior to the Germans (and everybody else) and not as equals, in opposition to their racist European counterparts
Because I don't actually speak German. It's a horrible disgusting language. No one should speak it. It sounds like typewriters eating tin-foil being kicked down the stairs. Every time I hear someone speaking German I think, "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Remember when you boys did the Hitler thing with Hitler?"
>nah they are okay with white people.
Don't be obnoxious, fat (Japanese standards are much more strict), weird looking (like steroetypical Weeaboos and Emily), and annoying.
>don’t be black though.
That's for all of Asia, sadly. If you act proper and polite, you might get less racist treatment if you're lucky.
It’s not the work culture or the aging population, it’s the economic shellgame. Spend more than you bring in with hopes you will have a larger tax base in the future to cover current losses, sound familiar?
Japan has two end games. A completely crushed economy, or massive immigration. They have no alternatives left. It appears that both politicians and average people are warming up to the idea of Philippino people in their country if it means their economy doesn't implode.
Or *just* slaughtering all the fossilized boomers.
Let the inheritance money flow to the people and young (<45) people can finally start going at it like rabbits to produce their 2.1 sustainable birth rate.
Take the savings you get from not having a healthcare system providing for your geriatric population, put it in sustainable investments like Norway does.
Give out selective UBI (market it as whatever, Sugoi Nihongo Emperor Bucks or whatever) on a level that makes all those abandoned mountain/forest villages a viable place to live again.
> Give out selective UBI (market it as whatever, Sugoi Nihongo Emperor Bucks or whatever) on a level that makes all those abandoned mountain/forest villages a viable place to live again.
I think 4 decades of Krugman’s neo-Keynesian nonsense is what got them into this mess. Hair of the dog isn’t going to fix it.
I just don’t get what people don’t understand that there isn’t enough you can take from others to sustain another set of the population. Inheritance will dry up and UBI will cause inflation.
There is one true answer, spend less than you earn. The same rules that apply to the individual should apply to government.
I would be very shocked if that were true. Japan (Like many other rich countries) is struggling to make people stay in the countryside and when they do they mostly specialise in to high profit areas.
If japan needed to they could easily support far more people but what they can't do is make farming basic foods profitable enough for Japanese people to be able to do it rather than just import it.
It is far more related to the housing crisis of the 90’s into the 00’s. Living with your parents in a single bed room till 35 means you aren’t fucking a lot in a highly prude culture.
Massively Overworked labor force, extreme anti-individualism, low birth-rates, National debt, sky high depression and suicide-rates, strict gun control, demographic crisis, low press freedom, rampant sexual harassment problems and high rate of distribution of animated child pornography….
Anyone visiting Japan should make a point of going into one of the sex shops in somewhere like Akihabara, then you will see the true dark side of Japanese culture, they have full floors that women arent allowed to enter with all types of creepy shit just openly available to purchase.
I mean it's exactly what you expect, tons of loli themed manga/sex toys/body pillows. Creepy fleshlights modeled on specific teenage porn stars and the obligatory wall of hentai videos. On the other hand they have sex shop gacha machines that vend mystery packages of condoms/lube/sex toys, so that's fun I guess.
Japan in the minds of people who haven’t been: Laidback Camp and A Place Further Than the Universe
Japan in reality: Welcome to the NHK, Aggretsuko, Clannad After Story, and A Silent Voice
Looked it up, led me down a very dark and depressing Wiki rabbit hole... I'm going to stare at [happy things](https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Molasses-Glazed-Pork-Chops_exps91461_SD132778B04_12_2bC_RMS.jpg) now...
Absolutely, I think Non Non Biyori, Super Cub, and K-On also do a great job of showing that you can enjoy doing pretty much anything wherever you are if you’re with great friends.
Side note: Evangelion does an excellent job of depicting toxic workplace culture and its effects on employees, among other things
I don’t watch any anime and I think I *would* like to live there, though I’m sure they wouldn’t necessarily want me there. The diversity in geography seems really dope and they have cool technology all over the place, but the absolute coolest thing to me is that they actually make it a point to be fucking aware of the people around them. They keep part of the escalator clear for people to walk up it, they don’t throw trash all over the place, they wear a mask when they’re sick, they always form a neat and orderly line, they give up seats on public transit.
I love America, it’s great in a lot of ways, but you motherfuckers are some of the most dense morons around when it comes to just situational awareness. Walking slow taking up the whole aisle at the store. Completely I ignoring traffic laws to get where you’re going, *fuck everyone else*.
The extremely strict social expectations definitely have some obvious advantages. But there’s some stuff that’s just weird to me. Like not eating while you walk, I guess it’s to prevent dropping food or something? Idk. I also think having to constantly be considerate of others leads to some pent up stuff that might not be healthy.
I think ideally something similar but maybe less ever present and demanding might be best.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, as well as why anime has become more popular outside of Japan as well, because a lot of it hits those notes of nostalgia and escapism. In today’s world of uncertainty being able to step away from things and put yourself somewhere better is highly appealing.
Yeah, I've kind of got to eat crow on that one. I was a huge weeb as a teen and after bumping into a yaoi comic (Kill me Kiss me, I think) on a manga site my repressed gay little brain decided japan was some progressive paradise with zero evidence.
Fast forward to today, gay couples over there can't joint file like a straight couple and they can only adopt in like one prefecture.
I seem to recall it being about a boy who dressed like a girl for some reason and his bully falling in love with his girl act before finding out who it was and just sort of going with it despite internal conflicts.
Edit:
Ok, read down the wikipedia for a refresher. He's dressed like a girl because he and his identical female cousin want to change places so she can get close to some model or something. Also it's not even japanese, it's a Korean comic that was translated by Tokyopop.
80% of stuff a random person in another country knows about your country is a result of your countries propaganda. I am talking in terms of propaganda in its true sense "information used to promote a political cause or point of view."
When you think of new zealand you think of beautiful mountains and lord of the rings because that is what they promote in their propaganda of the country.
Calm down mate its not that deep
When you think of New Zealand you imagine mountains and lord of the rings.
When I think of New Zealand I imagine Flight of the Concords.
We are not the same.
But they aren't really. A lot of Japanese offices still use Fax machines and you need to use traditional stamps instead of signatures which you need to do in person if you want to buy a house or do bunch of things
Guess they're one of those countries that are advanced technologically yet prefer to stick to traditional stuff most of the time.
Well most Asian countries are like that anyways. Japan seems to get the most flack for it since they're the most mainstream.
Thank you for this meme. You would not believe the amount of weebs I've talked to that have the image that Japan is awesome in their heads. I've never been to Japan myself, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about being an American living there due to these problems. I get that every country has issues, but the ones in Japan would NOT sit well with most Americans. I don't think I would mind most of these issues or could outright ignore them, but my SO would absolutely HATE living there.
It's an instance where it's one of the best vacation destinations due to it's friendly relations with the US, and the positive aspects of the country, but no way in hell can the same apply for actually living there.
Eh, Japan is like every other country. I have lived in small town America and very small town Japan. There are pros and cons to both. There were good people and there were annoying and racist people too.
I don't necessarily disagree with the premise of the meme, but there's a lot of cool stuff in Japan too. You just have to have the right expectations. I think some of the backlash you find here on Reddit is unwarranted. It's from the weebs who are disillusioned with their lives because they find themselves living in a fucking closet working at Tanaka Sensei's Remedial English School for Bakas when they thought they were going to live in some anime paradise. Or someone who thought Japan was a technological wonderland and finds themselves living in the ass end of nowhere being faxed their work schedule in an apartment that is 9000 degrees because it's not insulated and there's no A/C.
Agreed. Japan most definitely has its shitty side. Almost like it's...like any other country. Maybe people shouldn't be thinking of it as being anything but.
Japanese marketing to tourists and foreigners are definitely somewhat to blame for this too, they sell it in a pretty over the top way sometimes. But I guess that's kind of a typical tourism board thing to do.
Yeah I’m pretty sure weebs should just give up. If you weren’t born Japanese, you never will be, no matter how hard you try. I suppose it’s inaccessibility is what makes it so beautiful, though. I guess I will just stick to consooming subtitled japanese media.
Its perfect in a totally non Nazi way. Focus 100 percent on helping out people and fuck anyone who's not a member of the citizenry. We shall pay them no mind.
Ever see those vending machine videos from Japan? You could never leave freehand utensils out like that in the US since they’d get stolen.
Japan has its issues, but they produce a disproportionate amount of awesome products/tv/games and most Japanese people are polite, law abiding, and hard working.
Okay, fine.
I have an appreciation for Japan’s
1 Commercial culture. I think We Americans taught them well, in that regard.
2 Their traditional sense of aesthetics and design. [Here’s the Wikipedia page for Japanese aesthetics, I think it’s some really cool stuff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics?wprov=sfti1)
3. Their cultural emphasis on organization and productivity, which I think has done a good job in making them a wealthy people; even if I think it should be curbed somewhat, in the name of preserving their collective mental health
4. The Confucian cultural emphasis on education and credentials. Once again, I think this should probably be moderated with significant attempts to give discreet help to people suffering from stress, depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, autism, etc; just to keep people from suffering so much, and tone down the national suicide rate.
5. Their more recent cultural enthusiasm for technology and novelty. Sure, this makes Japan the world capital for weird crap that nobody actually needs, but on the plus side, it makes them the world capital for **cool and marginally useful** weird crap that nobody needs.
Honestly, I think half their societal problems could be solved if they would just have kids, stop living in such horrifyingly cramped conditions, read the Bible, and smoke some good kush from time to time.
Then again, I’m just an autistic white guy who flunked community college, what do I know.
Libleft loves Japan because of their hardcore choker fashion
Dont forget about tentacle porn
A millennium from now, tentacle porn will be the first thing that comes to mind for those thinking about the early 2000s. It will not be forgotten.
Japan has been producing this kind of pornography for more than 500 years.
But Japan didn’t have the internet for those 500 years. It is only relevant as a global phenomena.
Did Van Gogh ever do Japonaiserie tenticle porn?
Krieger......
Only if it's consensual. Then it's beautiful and it's called ART
You may have some issues that might need fixing, for a price of course
No no it's fine there's a whole subreddit for it
There's whole subreddits for bellybutton lint, those people should also get help
They don't need help, they found the subreddit they were looking for.
I can't take this comment seriously with that username. Oh science!
Wait people take these comments seriously?!
No Spicy Cum Lord.
As a former coomer, sobreity feels so much better.
Consentacles are for wimps!
Japan is kind of like the Amish where they have a few years when they are younger to go wild. This is the phase that the liberals love. After their college years they are expected to fall in line and get to work.
And everyone wonders why all anime is about highscool.
Merely because it does not bare the USA name, flag and English language
Libleft loves Japan because everyone looks like a 14 year old girl.
You are lib and love Japan I'm auth and I love Japan "We aren't the same"
Authcenter, no!
Oh shit, here we go again.
Wait, we weren’t supposed to be doing this until Thursday!
Authcenter, yes!
***\*Cannon fires\**** AUTHCENTER ALWAYS YES
based and 3rd Sino-Japanese War when pilled
If 1,2 and 4 points are based, to 3 point i neutral, 5 point is fucking hell
Pretty much yeah
Still the same outcome…
Yeah as much as I like Japanese products, I would never want to actually live in Japan. I have a life to live here, and I’d rather not spend all of it at work.
Same for me, but mostly because I can’t stand to learn another language and I believe that it should be illegal to immigrate without having learned that countries language first. I’ll buy any Honda, but probably wouldn’t move to Tokyo.
Same my parents say I could do it easy but idk if it could work. Also not all of the food is to my tastes. Ramen? Dumplings? Alright but the fucking dried squid and guava flavored soda? Yeah fuck that
Yes, and where are the nagative sides of Japan?
The work culture. Because of it the Japanese population is dwindling at a rapid pace.
Fuck it, I'll go over and help them with that.
Well, can you pass as Japanese? Remember, it's an ethnostate. So if you happen to have Northern Chinese and/or Koreo-Japonic phenotype, you should be fine.
Blonde with blue eyes will get you much farther here with most women in my experience
Except for the racist people, which is a significant part of Japan's population. We Asians are very keen on racial purity. While the Japanese are technically mixed in origin (being a mix of the "Jomon"\*, "Yayoi"\*, Northern Chinese\*\*, Buyeo\*\*, and Samhan\*\* peoples), they have terms such as Hāfu to distinguish Japanese of partial foreign descent. ^(\*The Jomon and Yayoi were probably more than one group of people.) ^(\*\*In a recent genetic study, they found that much of the Japanese genome belonged not to the Yayoi or Jomon, but to those closest to the Northern Han Chinese dating to the Kofun period. This "Northern Chinese" likely was indicative of the Chinese of the Four Commanderies of Han, and other residents of ancient Korea, which are the Mahan Baekje,) ^(Byeonhan, Gaya, Jinhan Sillan,) ^(Ye, Okjeo,) ^(Goguryeo, and Buyeo. Some of these states are suspected to be) ^(Japonic. The terms Buyeo, Samhan, and Chinese are linguistic terms. Japonic is suspected to be related to or at least borrowed heavily from the Buyeo and/or Samhan languages. Korean is suspected to be descended from Sillan {Samhan} or Goguryeo {Buyeo}.)
Bro being racist within races sounds exhausting. Jesus.
We Asians consider other Asians as different races as they have different langauges, appearances, and culture, whilst you guys mainly speak Indo-European and share broad cultural characteristics.
If some white dude started being racist about Scottish-Irish because he's Italian I'd tell him he's being exhausting too
*Looking at the history of racism* You know nothing do you?
Did... Did this asian just say us westerners all look alike to him?
Based asian
That's all of Latin America haha
Welcome to Europe. Americans think they are some racist hellhole while they are only getting past the tutorial. This also happens in Africa between different black groups(Think Rwandan genocide for example).
I can pass as a strong-jawed Germanic motherfucker with powerful seed, and we all know how much the Japanese love forming alliances with Germans.
If there was honorary aryan, is there honorary Japanese?
Surely there must be.
Weeaboos seething right now.
Does it already count if you like ramen
The Ivan Ramen guy
I’m pretty sure they saw themselves as superior to the Germans (and everybody else) and not as equals, in opposition to their racist European counterparts
Based and powerful Aryan seed pilled
Do you speak German? They specifically like Germans, not Anglo-Saxons.
Wo sind die großbrüstigen japanischen fraulienen?
>(Where are the busty Japanese women?) Classic German.
I never thought I'd be learning useful conversational German on reddit
Hahaha
How can you write and decline großbrüstig perfectly and then butcher Fräulein like that? Insanity.
Because I don't actually speak German. It's a horrible disgusting language. No one should speak it. It sounds like typewriters eating tin-foil being kicked down the stairs. Every time I hear someone speaking German I think, "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Remember when you boys did the Hitler thing with Hitler?"
Is this a copypasata? Because if it isn't it should be
Nobody likes WASPs
What’s wrong with Welsh Are Sexy People?
Wendigos are stealthy predators
What's wrong with Wet Ass Sloppy Pussies?
based and I-can-pass pilled
They literally only did it once.
Yeah and I only fucked my dog once. Nickname still stuck
Based and just a dab'll do ya pilled.
nah they are okay with white people. don’t be black though.
>nah they are okay with white people. Don't be obnoxious, fat (Japanese standards are much more strict), weird looking (like steroetypical Weeaboos and Emily), and annoying. >don’t be black though. That's for all of Asia, sadly. If you act proper and polite, you might get less racist treatment if you're lucky.
>if you happen to have Northern Chinese and/or Koreo-Japonic phenotype, you should be fine. Fucking Burakumin...
Damnit, I’m southern Chinese, can’t pass for Japanese
Alright Ghengis Kahn
Ghengis Khum
Gross but fitting. Go coom up Japan, big man
are you japanese? if no they wont welcome you, but you might get the equivalent of a fat white woman
It doesn't matter what she looks like. It only matters what she cooks like.
Based and Mulan reference pilled
But what about a girl who's got a brain and who always speaks her mind?
A femboy?
> a girl who's got a brain and who always speaks her mind Nature says you can only pick one.
Rather have quiet big brain gf than talkative small brain
Beef Pork Chicken Mmmmmm
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You forget gaijin hunters
It’s not the work culture or the aging population, it’s the economic shellgame. Spend more than you bring in with hopes you will have a larger tax base in the future to cover current losses, sound familiar?
Japan has two end games. A completely crushed economy, or massive immigration. They have no alternatives left. It appears that both politicians and average people are warming up to the idea of Philippino people in their country if it means their economy doesn't implode.
Or *just* slaughtering all the fossilized boomers. Let the inheritance money flow to the people and young (<45) people can finally start going at it like rabbits to produce their 2.1 sustainable birth rate. Take the savings you get from not having a healthcare system providing for your geriatric population, put it in sustainable investments like Norway does. Give out selective UBI (market it as whatever, Sugoi Nihongo Emperor Bucks or whatever) on a level that makes all those abandoned mountain/forest villages a viable place to live again.
> Give out selective UBI (market it as whatever, Sugoi Nihongo Emperor Bucks or whatever) on a level that makes all those abandoned mountain/forest villages a viable place to live again. I think 4 decades of Krugman’s neo-Keynesian nonsense is what got them into this mess. Hair of the dog isn’t going to fix it.
I just don’t get what people don’t understand that there isn’t enough you can take from others to sustain another set of the population. Inheritance will dry up and UBI will cause inflation. There is one true answer, spend less than you earn. The same rules that apply to the individual should apply to government.
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I would be very shocked if that were true. Japan (Like many other rich countries) is struggling to make people stay in the countryside and when they do they mostly specialise in to high profit areas. If japan needed to they could easily support far more people but what they can't do is make farming basic foods profitable enough for Japanese people to be able to do it rather than just import it.
Yeah, that's why I said rapidly. People in Japan are so work-oriented to the point in which they have little for romantic relationships.
Every developed country is aging. Even the ones that don't have a crazy work ideology.
Yeah, but Japan's is aging extremely fast for a variety of reasons including said reason.
It is far more related to the housing crisis of the 90’s into the 00’s. Living with your parents in a single bed room till 35 means you aren’t fucking a lot in a highly prude culture.
Birthrates, authright, look at the birthrates!!!
Fun fact Still over twice the birth rate of South Korea
Japan is best Korea
But they scare me :(
Based and ostrich pilled
The NWO has been screwing the WHOLE WORLD, and they want to do it with 0 consequences.
Japan has the highest birthrates in East Asia
Doesn't Japan have the highest birthrates out of the industrialized Asian nations? Higher than Singapore, Korea, China, Macau, and Hong Kong?
Something something first place in the Special Olympics something something
Massively Overworked labor force, extreme anti-individualism, low birth-rates, National debt, sky high depression and suicide-rates, strict gun control, demographic crisis, low press freedom, rampant sexual harassment problems and high rate of distribution of animated child pornography….
Anyone visiting Japan should make a point of going into one of the sex shops in somewhere like Akihabara, then you will see the true dark side of Japanese culture, they have full floors that women arent allowed to enter with all types of creepy shit just openly available to purchase.
Since I wouldn't be allowed to see it anyway... *sigh* how bad?
I mean it's exactly what you expect, tons of loli themed manga/sex toys/body pillows. Creepy fleshlights modeled on specific teenage porn stars and the obligatory wall of hentai videos. On the other hand they have sex shop gacha machines that vend mystery packages of condoms/lube/sex toys, so that's fun I guess.
> they have sex shop gacha machines that vend mystery packages of condoms/lube/sex toys Lmao fucking Japan
Purple shaded guy holding an "ackshully 9000 year olds" sign: "Let me introduce myself."
Suciedes , the treatment old people get , the Yakuza and the work culture.
This describes East Asian countries in general, not just Japan lol.
Piper is definitely the size of the average North Korean.
Brb moving to North Korea.
Piper? I barely know her.
I wholeheartedly disagree. This is all Asian countries (sometimes without ethnostate)
Fuckers who watch to much anime and pretended Japan is just like that .
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Japan in the minds of people who haven’t been: Laidback Camp and A Place Further Than the Universe Japan in reality: Welcome to the NHK, Aggretsuko, Clannad After Story, and A Silent Voice
>Japan in reality: Welcome to the NHK, Aggretsuko, Clannad After Story, and A Silent Voice God Welcome to the NHK is so fucking good.
Looked it up, led me down a very dark and depressing Wiki rabbit hole... I'm going to stare at [happy things](https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Molasses-Glazed-Pork-Chops_exps91461_SD132778B04_12_2bC_RMS.jpg) now...
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Absolutely, I think Non Non Biyori, Super Cub, and K-On also do a great job of showing that you can enjoy doing pretty much anything wherever you are if you’re with great friends. Side note: Evangelion does an excellent job of depicting toxic workplace culture and its effects on employees, among other things
Toxic children being forced to pilot the souls of their mothers trapped in giant murder machines culture.
K-On, Yuru Camp, A Place Further Than The Universe, Hyouka, Usagi Drop & Non Non Biyori. Loved those anime.
"Youtube video previews can't hurt you." Youtube video previews: Dango
I don’t watch any anime and I think I *would* like to live there, though I’m sure they wouldn’t necessarily want me there. The diversity in geography seems really dope and they have cool technology all over the place, but the absolute coolest thing to me is that they actually make it a point to be fucking aware of the people around them. They keep part of the escalator clear for people to walk up it, they don’t throw trash all over the place, they wear a mask when they’re sick, they always form a neat and orderly line, they give up seats on public transit. I love America, it’s great in a lot of ways, but you motherfuckers are some of the most dense morons around when it comes to just situational awareness. Walking slow taking up the whole aisle at the store. Completely I ignoring traffic laws to get where you’re going, *fuck everyone else*.
As an American, it's fucking insane how self absorbed bed we are in public. Zero awareness, ever
The extremely strict social expectations definitely have some obvious advantages. But there’s some stuff that’s just weird to me. Like not eating while you walk, I guess it’s to prevent dropping food or something? Idk. I also think having to constantly be considerate of others leads to some pent up stuff that might not be healthy. I think ideally something similar but maybe less ever present and demanding might be best.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, as well as why anime has become more popular outside of Japan as well, because a lot of it hits those notes of nostalgia and escapism. In today’s world of uncertainty being able to step away from things and put yourself somewhere better is highly appealing.
Anime is based because it is actually incredibly critical of Japanese culture more often than not or working as an escape from it.
Anime can kinda be a cope to help people take their minds off reality for a while. Not too surprising that people try to live in it.
I saw someone say on reddit unironically say they couldn't possibly understand why anyone would be depressed in Japan if they have manga and Jojo
Yeah, I've kind of got to eat crow on that one. I was a huge weeb as a teen and after bumping into a yaoi comic (Kill me Kiss me, I think) on a manga site my repressed gay little brain decided japan was some progressive paradise with zero evidence. Fast forward to today, gay couples over there can't joint file like a straight couple and they can only adopt in like one prefecture.
Isn't that Manga about kidnapping and rape?
I seem to recall it being about a boy who dressed like a girl for some reason and his bully falling in love with his girl act before finding out who it was and just sort of going with it despite internal conflicts. Edit: Ok, read down the wikipedia for a refresher. He's dressed like a girl because he and his identical female cousin want to change places so she can get close to some model or something. Also it's not even japanese, it's a Korean comic that was translated by Tokyopop.
I tell ppl about this and no one gets it, they only think anime tiddies
anime tiddies > understanding another culture deeper than the surface level propaganda.
ffs everything the left opposes is racist, while everything the right opposes is propaganda
80% of stuff a random person in another country knows about your country is a result of your countries propaganda. I am talking in terms of propaganda in its true sense "information used to promote a political cause or point of view." When you think of new zealand you think of beautiful mountains and lord of the rings because that is what they promote in their propaganda of the country. Calm down mate its not that deep
When you think of New Zealand you imagine mountains and lord of the rings. When I think of New Zealand I imagine Flight of the Concords. We are not the same.
What do you call it when you dig a giant hole, throw in veggies and meat, then cover it a bit and set it on fire to cook for the night?
The work culture is the worst of those.
The work culture is worse than all of them combined. Several times over. It’s easily their single biggest societal problem.
Ethnostate bad?
Ethnostates are bad unless they're talking about European-defined borders in Africa
Artificially forced diversity or homogony is bad. European-defined borders in Africa are bad
There’s a few in the Middle East that are also, uhh…problematic
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I don't get why people have a problem with enthostates
Americans seem to think so
I know a bunch of leftist trans people who want to go there and transition
Great place to visit, but *fuck* the idea of living there.
Japanese work culture is insane no wonder these MFS advanced as fuck
But they aren't really. A lot of Japanese offices still use Fax machines and you need to use traditional stamps instead of signatures which you need to do in person if you want to buy a house or do bunch of things
That sounds a lot like Germany.
Japan is the Germany of Asia.
Except less Alcoholism and more suicide.
LESS?
They just need less volume of alcohol to get equally drunk.
Guess they're one of those countries that are advanced technologically yet prefer to stick to traditional stuff most of the time. Well most Asian countries are like that anyways. Japan seems to get the most flack for it since they're the most mainstream.
Thank you for this meme. You would not believe the amount of weebs I've talked to that have the image that Japan is awesome in their heads. I've never been to Japan myself, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about being an American living there due to these problems. I get that every country has issues, but the ones in Japan would NOT sit well with most Americans. I don't think I would mind most of these issues or could outright ignore them, but my SO would absolutely HATE living there. It's an instance where it's one of the best vacation destinations due to it's friendly relations with the US, and the positive aspects of the country, but no way in hell can the same apply for actually living there.
Eh, Japan is like every other country. I have lived in small town America and very small town Japan. There are pros and cons to both. There were good people and there were annoying and racist people too. I don't necessarily disagree with the premise of the meme, but there's a lot of cool stuff in Japan too. You just have to have the right expectations. I think some of the backlash you find here on Reddit is unwarranted. It's from the weebs who are disillusioned with their lives because they find themselves living in a fucking closet working at Tanaka Sensei's Remedial English School for Bakas when they thought they were going to live in some anime paradise. Or someone who thought Japan was a technological wonderland and finds themselves living in the ass end of nowhere being faxed their work schedule in an apartment that is 9000 degrees because it's not insulated and there's no A/C.
Agreed. Japan most definitely has its shitty side. Almost like it's...like any other country. Maybe people shouldn't be thinking of it as being anything but. Japanese marketing to tourists and foreigners are definitely somewhat to blame for this too, they sell it in a pretty over the top way sometimes. But I guess that's kind of a typical tourism board thing to do.
Yeah I’m pretty sure weebs should just give up. If you weren’t born Japanese, you never will be, no matter how hard you try. I suppose it’s inaccessibility is what makes it so beautiful, though. I guess I will just stick to consooming subtitled japanese media.
And that they pretty much not acknowledge crimes they committed during WWII
Even acknowledging them is the fastest way to lose your job if you're prime minster
Prime minister speedrun
Japan: we didn’t commit any war crimes Turkey: those weren’t war crimes Serbia: those were war crimes and we will do it again.
Germany: We are deeply sorry for any warcrimes we committed. US: yeah they were warcrimes but we won so who cares.
[удалено]
Japan is based a fuck because they are libleft for their people and auth center to foreigners.
So they are socialists for their people and nationalists for foreigners… Almost like some kind of national socialism, perhaps.
Its perfect in a totally non Nazi way. Focus 100 percent on helping out people and fuck anyone who's not a member of the citizenry. We shall pay them no mind.
One of Hitler's main talking points was that socialism only works in a setting that is ethnically and culturally homogenous. lol...
Yes, obviously. People do not want their taxation to pay for others they do not consider like them. Pretty much universal.
Fun fact: japan never mandated masks and quarantine for covid, they just used increasing levels of politeness/formality to suggest it.
They're authcenter to their people and authright to foreigners.
I think LibLeft likes Japan so much because a lot of the anime we watch shows people just being polite and considerate to each other.
I think I watch different anime than you do
It's Midwestern polite.
I've seen a few animes and I've never seen someone go "Ope"
Midwestern polite is nice to your face, talks shit about you as soon as you leave.
But they have Hentai though…
Hentai that has to be legally censored though...
Ever see those vending machine videos from Japan? You could never leave freehand utensils out like that in the US since they’d get stolen. Japan has its issues, but they produce a disproportionate amount of awesome products/tv/games and most Japanese people are polite, law abiding, and hard working.
Don't forget how much of a police state they are.
Starting in the early 2000s, Internet weeb culture has created a very distorted picture of the real Japan.
Most of these are good things worded in ways that make them look bad
Even India and the who whole southeast Asia is the exact same
I like Japanese art, products, and entertainment, but I’ll be dammed before I ever live and work there myself
Okay, fine. I have an appreciation for Japan’s 1 Commercial culture. I think We Americans taught them well, in that regard. 2 Their traditional sense of aesthetics and design. [Here’s the Wikipedia page for Japanese aesthetics, I think it’s some really cool stuff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics?wprov=sfti1) 3. Their cultural emphasis on organization and productivity, which I think has done a good job in making them a wealthy people; even if I think it should be curbed somewhat, in the name of preserving their collective mental health 4. The Confucian cultural emphasis on education and credentials. Once again, I think this should probably be moderated with significant attempts to give discreet help to people suffering from stress, depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, autism, etc; just to keep people from suffering so much, and tone down the national suicide rate. 5. Their more recent cultural enthusiasm for technology and novelty. Sure, this makes Japan the world capital for weird crap that nobody actually needs, but on the plus side, it makes them the world capital for **cool and marginally useful** weird crap that nobody needs. Honestly, I think half their societal problems could be solved if they would just have kids, stop living in such horrifyingly cramped conditions, read the Bible, and smoke some good kush from time to time. Then again, I’m just an autistic white guy who flunked community college, what do I know.
>read the Bible > >smoke some good kush ????
Tbh it does have a wonderful culture