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Originally Posted by gravelgill
im not really worried on how we view japan but on how japan views native americans....have you seen some of the stuff they put about us in manga and animes?
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Yep, funny stuff.
... But, like I've said: Some of it, even in an effort for humor, can be true to a point.
There's no helping it; it's just an expression of the contrast between cultures.
Sort of like describing the
big-nosed, white-skinned foreigners that talk unusually loud.
It seems blunt. It can be offensive... But it can also hold an element of truth, especially from the perspective of someone with an entirely different outlook on life. Minus racism.
We generalize others just as they generalize us.
It's one way of trying to understand the world around us in a form that we can remember, without possessing the knowledge gained from actual experience.