Japanese People Stop Being Japanese
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osamabintrippin (08/31/2015) [-] 
"Don't correct me on my knowledge of your own culture, that's just oppression"
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chillybilly (09/01/2015) [-] A lot of people seem to mistake that for 'keep thumbing him up and down'
Hide-All master race
Hide-All master race
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KillinTime (09/01/2015) [-] how bout don't vote either way, stop replying telling people "hurr durr keep it at 0 guiz" and just hit hide all? it's not ****** rocket science kid your paying attention to him giving him green thumbs to keep the overall count at 0 is worse than the people who just mindlessly downvote.
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justtocomment (09/01/2015) [-]
Don't remind me... 9th grade is a dark stain on my past...
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anon (09/01/2015) [-]
Dark stain? Man, you are lucky. Mine was a spectrum of visible and invisible stains; stains of all shapes and dimension.
A very descriptive title for that chapter of my past is: stains;gate. "a dark stain on my past". Dude, stains have prevailed to the extent there was no more past, only stain.
A very descriptive title for that chapter of my past is: stains;gate. "a dark stain on my past". Dude, stains have prevailed to the extent there was no more past, only stain.
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imoriginalposter (09/01/2015) [-] 馴染み ヘロ I can't read this tiny ass font for japanes, what does najimi mean and how is it different from tomodachi? Formality?
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emiyashirou ONLINE (09/01/2015) [-] Najimi is intimacy. The full word he was probably looking for is osananajimi 幼馴染み, which is childhood friend.
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mikepetru ONLINE (09/01/2015) [-] Anytime someone wants to tell me I could never understand cultural appropriation, I'll kindly bring up how one of Japan's most popular and profitable gaming franchises features a short, fat, gibberish-speaking Italian plumber with a big bushy mustache who loves eating mushrooms and fighting "Goombas." Not that I believe cultural appropriation is considered a rational concept
If we go with the definition of it being of taking credit for and profiting off a culture that is not yours, then that can be ascribed to every culture. An African swordsmith making katanas is appropriating Japanese culture. A russian baker making zeppoli is appropriating Italian culture. Industrialization is heavily rooted in European white culture. In that case, the Japanese selling cars and computers that are mass produced is appropriating white culture. Dr. Dre, an African-American, sells his own brand of Beats headphones, headphones also being mass produced technology invented by a white man, and thus, is appropriation.
However, who is to say that cultures being appropriated did not appropriate others? Are Italian pastries purely Italian pastries, or did we adapt them from someone else's culture in a way that better suited the tastes of Italians? Are dao swords solely a Chinese invention, or were they adapted from some earlier weapon in a way that best suited Chinese fighting tactics? Were the first humans who invented fire culturally appropriated by every other tribe who learned from them to make fire and use it for their own benefit? This idea of 'cultural appropriation' can be traced back to the dawn of man.
This line of reasoning has lead me to the conclusion that cultural appropriation was a term invented to demonize cultural diffusion, the process by which cultures mix, evolve, and adapt aspects of other cultures that are beneficial to them. I don't see this as morally objectionable, as much as I see it the natural process of human evolution, learning and adapting from one another in the interest of profit, whether that profit is monetary compensation, moral satisfaction, emotional satisfaction, entertainment, religious fulfillment, etc. Some might argue that monetary profit, particularly, from cultural diffusion is objectionable because when the majority of people buy into it, it eliminates the source culture in favor of a new "corrupted" one that has lost its meaning. However, aren't cultural traditions that have persevered simply on popularity corrupted, in that case? Popularity contests are simply another form of "buying into" new cultural traditions. These new cultural norms are not lacking in meaning, they simply hold a new meaning in the eyes of those who have willingly perpetuated it by "voting" for it, through their dollars or through their repetition of these new adaptations.
Frankly, the idea that cultural diffusion should be restricted to me sounds like people trying to maintain some idea of "cultural purity." Which sounds a lot like segregation.
If we go with the definition of it being of taking credit for and profiting off a culture that is not yours, then that can be ascribed to every culture. An African swordsmith making katanas is appropriating Japanese culture. A russian baker making zeppoli is appropriating Italian culture. Industrialization is heavily rooted in European white culture. In that case, the Japanese selling cars and computers that are mass produced is appropriating white culture. Dr. Dre, an African-American, sells his own brand of Beats headphones, headphones also being mass produced technology invented by a white man, and thus, is appropriation.
However, who is to say that cultures being appropriated did not appropriate others? Are Italian pastries purely Italian pastries, or did we adapt them from someone else's culture in a way that better suited the tastes of Italians? Are dao swords solely a Chinese invention, or were they adapted from some earlier weapon in a way that best suited Chinese fighting tactics? Were the first humans who invented fire culturally appropriated by every other tribe who learned from them to make fire and use it for their own benefit? This idea of 'cultural appropriation' can be traced back to the dawn of man.
This line of reasoning has lead me to the conclusion that cultural appropriation was a term invented to demonize cultural diffusion, the process by which cultures mix, evolve, and adapt aspects of other cultures that are beneficial to them. I don't see this as morally objectionable, as much as I see it the natural process of human evolution, learning and adapting from one another in the interest of profit, whether that profit is monetary compensation, moral satisfaction, emotional satisfaction, entertainment, religious fulfillment, etc. Some might argue that monetary profit, particularly, from cultural diffusion is objectionable because when the majority of people buy into it, it eliminates the source culture in favor of a new "corrupted" one that has lost its meaning. However, aren't cultural traditions that have persevered simply on popularity corrupted, in that case? Popularity contests are simply another form of "buying into" new cultural traditions. These new cultural norms are not lacking in meaning, they simply hold a new meaning in the eyes of those who have willingly perpetuated it by "voting" for it, through their dollars or through their repetition of these new adaptations.
Frankly, the idea that cultural diffusion should be restricted to me sounds like people trying to maintain some idea of "cultural purity." Which sounds a lot like segregation.
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anon (09/05/2015) [-]
These Social Justice fags seem to confuse cultural diffusion with cultural appropriation. Appropriation is when a college kid dresses like an Indian for Halloween. On the 1-10 scale of big deals, 1 being not, 10 being a ******* big deal. Its about a .5. Diffusion is the primary thing they are complaining about, yet they don't realize it because they're morons. Diffusion is perfectly natural and is actually quite healthy for humanity.
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maxsexington (09/01/2015) [-] It was worth the read but felt to me like wasted effort writing,as just a comment on a site.
Tl;dr version : A bunch of people project different meanings onto things and like to feel important. Riding around on their high horse, slapping those who agree on the back then slapping the rest with their opinion sticks. Roping **** into a category of what should be also narrows their view on culture ironically. These idiots stand in their own way.
Tl;dr version of Tl;dr version : They like to feed the high horse they're on
Tl;dr version : A bunch of people project different meanings onto things and like to feel important. Riding around on their high horse, slapping those who agree on the back then slapping the rest with their opinion sticks. Roping **** into a category of what should be also narrows their view on culture ironically. These idiots stand in their own way.
Tl;dr version of Tl;dr version : They like to feed the high horse they're on
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willindor (09/01/2015) [-] Not to mention the whole ******** about you can't speak a language if it isn't your native tongue. Like that one post about stop speaking Spanish if you aren't of Hispanic descent. That kind of bollocks would ruin every form of communication between people from different countries if person A isn't allowed to speak English and person B can't speak German
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anon (09/01/2015) [-]
>yfw they literally advocated privileged checking to people who pointed out how retarded they were
www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/07/08/tensions-questions-mfa-reconfigured-kimono-wednesdays/5VpgDhLrDNK2nPIOSygFNL/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article
>At one point, Nagaoka and the group opposing the event, along with other visitors, gathered in a doorway of the gallery, and the conversation became slightly heated. “You don’t understand anything about art,” one man said as he passed through. To which someone responded, “Check your privilege.”
www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/07/08/tensions-questions-mfa-reconfigured-kimono-wednesdays/5VpgDhLrDNK2nPIOSygFNL/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article
>At one point, Nagaoka and the group opposing the event, along with other visitors, gathered in a doorway of the gallery, and the conversation became slightly heated. “You don’t understand anything about art,” one man said as he passed through. To which someone responded, “Check your privilege.”
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threeeighteen ONLINE (08/31/2015) [-] But look at the expression on that woman's face. Of course she'll be an alpha-cunt.
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sideism (09/01/2015) [-] cultural appropration is pretty ******** , all it does is create more misunderstanding and racial tension.
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starlordoriginal ONLINE (08/31/2015) [-]
Can I get some sauce? Need to decide if the galaxy is better off without this person.
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quantumranger (09/01/2015) [-] If I remember correctly, a museum was holding kimono wednesdays or something like that, where they displayed traditional Japanese art and taught about Japanese culture, And a bunch of idiots came in saying that it was imperialist and whatever for a western museum to display Japanese art, despite the whole thing being organized by local Japanese women. Just a really stupid thing. Everyone was mostly just confused by the stupidity
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starlordoriginal ONLINE (09/01/2015) [-] well I guess that settle the answer to my previous question
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anon (09/01/2015) [-] Cultural appropriation. So are people just mad at whites for doing anything these days? "You should be more accepting and understanding of other cultures and peoples. But don't try to be like them, because that's racist." It's **** like this that makes people ACTUAL racists.
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matralith (09/01/2015) [-] ''Cultural appropriation'' is already stupid to begin with, but this is ridiculous
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anon (09/01/2015) [-]
That sign bitch;
She has every single visual indication of being that one confrontational bitch in your classes at uni who yells out "Ummmm, exCUCE me" at the professor in the middle of a history course because he said something she didn't agree with.
She has every single visual indication of being that one confrontational bitch in your classes at uni who yells out "Ummmm, exCUCE me" at the professor in the middle of a history course because he said something she didn't agree with.
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mustardbater (09/01/2015) [-] 2015: when you're racist for not being open enough to other cultures, and racist for being too open to other cultures
really, you're every kind of -ist unless you bow your head hold your tongue and agree to/apologize for everything women/non-whites say.
who's opressing who?
really, you're every kind of -ist unless you bow your head hold your tongue and agree to/apologize for everything women/non-whites say.
who's opressing who?
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itssakamoto (08/31/2015) [-] Reminds me of the one Jamaican guy being asked many times if dreadlocks is cultural appropriation and he said no it's fine but a blonde American bitch chimed in and said that yes it is and she knows better about Jamaican culture than a Jamaican dude.
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thesirofponies (09/01/2015) [-] Dreadlocks have been in multiple different cultures,starting out in Middle Europe of the tribes that opposed the Roman Empire.So how is it racist for a white dude to wear hair from where he came from?
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thesirofponies (09/01/2015) [-] sounds like she was just manipulated into their thinking
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heartlessrobot (09/01/2015) [-] Greasy hair clumped together has been around in every country since before the invention of washing your hair.
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thehistorylover (09/01/2015) [-] **thehistorylover used "*roll picture*"**
**thehistorylover rolled image**The Vikings bathed and washed their hair a lot, though, compared to other people.
**thehistorylover rolled image**The Vikings bathed and washed their hair a lot, though, compared to other people.
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thehistorylover (09/01/2015) [-]
I don't know about dreds, but I'm pretty sure the men braided their hair a lot.
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thehistorylover (09/01/2015) [-]
Neat. Maybe they didn't have dreds?
But man, they look cool!
But man, they look cool!
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mrsirius (09/01/2015) [-] I would not do that **** in japan, people there are respectful of allot of things, but you will get your ass handed to you by some granny that can do kung fu, just because you disrespect there culture, those people keep to themselves. The white man just happens to bring it back here.
