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echidnana · 4 months ago

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it is really annoying like we personally see it a lot bc we're chinese but there really is this like. weird double perception of east asian culture? like ppl will say "oh I'm not racist against japanese people I watch anime how could I be!" when you can very much consume a culture while being biased against the people as well. like in western society east asian culture is just Part of it like there's boba shops everywhere and anime is super popular and a ton of people love the aesthetics of japan and korea. while simultaneously not seeing people from those cultures as actual individuals and dismissing discussions of the histories and not aesthetically pleasing cultures of those countries.

#like obv the dehumanization of poc is an issue across the board #we're just talking abt ea specific racism bc we r ea so we feel like we can talk abt it lmao #like. westerners will pick apart a culture for things they can consume and find entertaining and interesting and pretty #and create this idealized version of a literal human culture #like ppl saying japan is like a theme park to them 😭😭 u do know real people live there 😭😭#like westerners want the pretty and aesthetically pleasing parts of ea culture while simultaneously dehumanizing the actual peoples #anyways. i promise u u can like anime and still be racist against ea ppl 😭#like they dont see us as ppl. the celebrities they r familiar with just get objectified to hell #and like.. ppl not addressing issues within cultures like japan is a country u cant treat it like some magical land outside of the realworld #so when japanese ppl are Ppl theyre like. what!! i thought japanw as perfect!! its a country there is no perfect country cmon #confluence.txt

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