Japan: The Thread

WELL THANKS FOR RUINING EVERYTHING ASSHOLE

I see your rational multi-paragraph line of reasoning and counter with this-



James

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Yes there is, America. The USA has Japan beat on the crazyshitometer by a factor of ten billion. You just don't see it because you're living inside it - Jerry Springer paternity test/"your girlfriend is really a man, homie" shows, infomericals, the reality shows, the KKK, giant fat people, religious murder/rape cults, HOT TINY NUDE TEEN HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADER XXX sites, not one but TWO places where prostitution is entirely legal, clown/grandma/chubby/animal porn, Florida, gangsta rap where criminals openly brag about crime and murder on the radio/TV and get away with it, loopy movie stars, rampant drug use, Texas, TV shows where Jerry Rice kicks some skinny 37 year old regular guy's ass at football and everybody cheers him for it, giant food, the Christian right, the only place on earth still using that crazy medieval system of weights & measurements etc.

America is the country that produced Vanilla Ice, Carrot Top, Gary Coleman, George W. Bush and Tay Zonday. It out-gays Japanese culture handily, there are few Japanese equivalents to Will & Grace or any other show with flamboyant openly gay characters. Gay personalities on TV are comedians and usually explained away with a "yeah but it's an act, he's straight in real life check out his hot wife" excuse, and there are never gay characters written into scripted shows.

Living in Japan, you see the US through the same tiny media pinhole that Japan is seen through by the west. They had this show called "World's Best TV" or something with TV clips and every time something American came on I was like "what the hell?" then I remembered that I had seen The Nanny before and I shouldn't be surprised by giant fat children running around screaming and burning things in the living room. The fact is that Japan is a conservative country that listens to bland pop music, works 12 hours a day then drinks itself to sleep and banned schoolgirl panty vending machines years ago.

They do have zany comedy shows that aren't very funny but get by on wacky imagery and lonely, sexually repressed nerds in Tokyo who draw bizarre comics. It's definitely a different culture, but at the end of the day I don't think it's half as crazy as the US is, Americans just distance themselves from all the religious nuts and teen porn sites and giant gay pride parades and rednecks, and act like those are other people who don't represent the US but just happen to live there.

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You've got some good points as always. Maybe it's the internet generation looking down on ALL cultures, or maybe I'm just being too hard on Japan.

Also, before anyone posts it, Tokyo Breakfast is American-made.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Americans just distance themselves from all the religious nuts and teen porn sites and giant gay pride parades and rednecks, and act like those are other people who don't represent the US but just happen to live there.

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Who's distancing themselves?

They aren't having enough fun IMO.

Now that I think about it, I think he's just trying to make me feel bad for enjoying ridiculous bullshit like bosozuku superheroes, electric guitar fights, and robot punching. :(

Honestly, that's the one thing I'll give to Japan kids cartoons and nerd culture: the BURNING SPIRIT. To succeed in Japan in your giant robot fight, rock & roll battle, or building pyramids while losing weight to impress Marc Anthony is a PASSIONATE, FIERY SOUL. Here, we're told to relax and be smooth. It's boring. The only time America has ever gotten CLOSE to a RAGING LOVE VICTORY was in our 2v2, basketball arcade games. Yes, only then were we truly ever ON FIRE. Alas, we left it behind for realism and jiving. JIVING.

HERE IS THE CLOSEST WE HAVE EVER COME IN UNITING WITH JAPAN IN A GETTAI SEQUENCE OF ULTIMATE FIERY BRAVE PASSION:

BUT NONE OF YOU BOUGHT THE DVDS AND THE DUB WAS CUT. YOU CONTINUE JIVING. I WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK TO THE HEAVENS WITH MY BRAVE HEART OUTSTRETCHED, AWAITING THE DAY WHEN I MAY USE MY FURIOUS PASSION TO END ALL CONFLICT IN HUMANITY.

Shame on you, StriderKyo.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

fuck you, motherfuckers

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:lol: Sorry, I didn't mean to piss on the thread, continue having fun. I just see the "Japan is crazy land" thing all the time and wanted to share my perspective. And I don't mean to deny that Japan has more than its fair share of zanyness. Without it it would be Korea.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

:lol: Sorry, I didn't mean to piss on the thread, continue having fun. I just see the "Japan is crazy land" thing all the time and wanted to share my perspective. And I don't mean to deny that Japan has more than its fair share of zanyness. Without it it would be Korea.

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Too late. Now Japan makes sense. Thanks alot. Now I realize I have been living a lie. :cry:

Japan 1930's




Japan 1940's




Japan 2000's

America isn't anywhere near as crazy as Japan.

Just because of how used to America the entire world is. All of those things are weird and definitely American, but every American stereotype ever is widely known by any country that has televisions. Weird shit like Japanese businessmen groping girls on public transportation isn't as widely recognized.