#look up the history of northern honshu and hokkaido and sakhalin. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

theradioghost · 2 months ago

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resisting the urge every time ive ever seen an analysis of the ecological and/or ethical themes in princess mononoke to grab the person by the face and scream that their analysis is valuable but is inherently incomplete without the understanding that this is also a movie about real historical colonialism

#my posts #please just. even read the wikipedia pages about the emishi and the ainu. do anything #the japanese government did not actually legally recognize the existence of the ainu indigenous people they colonized until 2019.#look up the history of northern honshu and hokkaido and sakhalin.#ask why the government did for centuries & STILL culls the bears that are so sacred to the ainu. ask what happened to the wolves.#the ethnocide and ecocide are inherently tied here and they are real

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