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Furious that my friends keep calling cartoons “Americanime”, smdh
Howdy, my name is Rawhide Kobayashi. I’m a 27 year old Japanese Japamerican (western culture fan for you foreigners). I brand and wrangle cattle on my ranch, and spend my days perfecting the craft and enjoying superior American passtimes. (Barbeque, Rodeo, Fireworks) I train with my branding iron every day, this superior weapon can permanently leave my ranch embled on a cattle’s hide because it is white-hot, and is vastly superior to any other method of livestock marking. I earned my branding license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day. I speak English fluently, both Texas and Oklahoma dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about American history and their cowboy code, which I follow 100% When I get my American visa, I am moving to Dallas to work in an oil field to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become a cattle wrangler for the Double Cross Ranch or an oil rig operator for Exxon-Mobil! I own several cowboy hats, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to America, so I can fit in easier. I rebel against my elders and seniors and speak English as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond. Wish me luck in America!
Real talk, I love seeing these sort of weird syncretisms of different cultures. Stuff like how the Fire Emblem series is classical European fantasy as interpreted through the lens of a game developer in Japan, a country whose early exposure to such works was largely Dungeons and Dragons.
It’s just such a damn shame that the current imperialist world order largely turns such fusions into relations of appropriation and imposition. I can only hope I live to see the day the neocolonial order falls and cultures can interact on more equitable terms.
A lot of the Japanese anime, manga, and game creators before the 90s used to have a pretty varied diet of genre media, but it’s too bad that we’ve gotten to the point where more often than not they’re only consuming domestic media anime.
There’s exceptions of course, like Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon is fantastic - more people should read it!).
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That’s a lot of cheese to be eating in a single sitting
And i should know, I’m from Wisconsin
