>>11454 I agreed, i won't explain myself further than this comment (because i'm doing algebra homework), but my opinion of this thread is that much of the perspectives people have regarding japan are rooted in hate, ignorance or out of context info (also propaganda), or directly treating the country as a cartoonish stereotype (which is in part, pretty discriminatory), like for example, japanese people hating everyone who is not japanese, as such they don't hate the concept of a foreign people, they in fact appreciate anyone who love japan enough to go to the country, what they don't like, is mostly the attiudes of western people (becaus such attitudes tend to be kinda rude or disgusting from their cultural point of view) and yeah, japan has a lot of social issues, is a flawed nation as any other, but also, it's a nation with positive things, much that most of us doesn't comprehend completely, it's like sinophobia, or ignorance regarding latin americans (i'm a guatemalan indigenous, so i can talk from experience), it is harder when even the media you consume tends to have an incorrect idea of the situation of many nations, because they tend to be really "superficial" and much of the context is just ignored for the sake of keep it simple to the common spectator.
Also, there is a real problem with the west and their weird ideas of eastern nation, europeans and americans want to impose a supremacy over the rest of the world, even the so called "leftist movements" have a biased pro western agenda, in which they want to impose a cultural imperialism "you are not like us, then you are bad", for me, the best way to have an idea of how society works is going to say country and learn more about it, even if it is just for vacations, ask locals, interact with people, read more about different perspectives from people, and if you can't afford it, you should check and do an analysis to the country social medias and see what the locals have to say, don't stick with experience or what others tell you, create your own criteria, because imperialism and white supremacism can also disguise as "socialism" (From my personal experience, I know some Korean, and i'm thinkin about taking japanese classes just to have a full perspective, and who knows, move out to one of those nations)
PS: Sorry if i made some spelling mistakes, i'm also still taking english courses, respect t
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