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[–] 166 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 91 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Yeah, this kinda shit is fucking hilarious but people don't realize it. There's this corporate training BS called Kaizen where they take a lot of normal Japanese words like 無理 (muri) and associate weird Eastern mystic significance to them.

    Literally just means "impossible" and is frequently used in slang to be like "no no no I couldn't possibly [talk to that hot guy]". Having it put up on a slide and presented by some white dudes in suits who were nodding solely and talking about the secret Japanese knowledge was just too much to bear.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I fucking hate Kaizen. I had to go through it as part of a job placement program and was convinced it was a cult. Like no, I am not going to call "Leaving a reminder for myself" a Gemba. I'm calling it a note because the japanese didn't fucking invent the idea of writing things down for later.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They didn't invent the idea of comic books either, so why do we call them "manga" if they come from Japan?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Manga are a kind of comic, they're just pretty specific about their format and choices. Anime is a kind of animated cartoon, it's just specific about its choices. Even "coming from Japan" isn't a requirement as long as it follows those traditionally(-ish) Japanese choices.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Eh, there’s different schools of thought. Artists like Junji Ito or Kabi Nagata make stuff very different from the usual manga, but they’re still called “manga”. In the same way, Radiant isn’t considered a manga by many even though it’s so close to the actual ones it even got an anime.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I mean yeah. Most people define genres or categories using association, and they can become a gooey mess at worst. I've been arguing for structured definitions for years, but it's a lost cause. I still believe I am the only person who has a completely sane definition for "role-playing game". But I digress, fam. ^^

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    [–] 65 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Assassinating people is frowned upon? Shiiiiiit, son, next you'll tell me these barbarians get pissed when their shit is stolen!

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago

    What a strange and beautiful land

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Interesting cultural paradigm for a people that spent centuries genociding others.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I love Japanese architecture and Japanese food. And I've watched my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga.

    Anyone who doesn't know how terrible Japanese culture is to outsiders needs to educate themselves, there's a reason they sided with Hitler. That culture never really went away like it did for Germany. Talk to an actual Japanese person, who went to school in Japan and see how much they know about their war crimes, and then talk to a German.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don’t think it’s that worse than other countries tbh. It’s amplified by the fact that it’s an island so foreigners are scarce and a lot of them are there for weeb tourism and may not be the best to interact with, but racism is a constant in most countries all around the world.

    They do need to acknowledge their war crimes though, sure. I agree Nationalism is definitely a bigger issue in Japan than in most other countries.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    So, I knew a girl who went to a Japanese international school in my South East Asian home country where the Japanese did some utterly horrendous things during WWII. She told me the school took them to a war museum kinda place on a field trip and basically shouted at them like "LOOK AT WHAT YOUR PEOPLE DID!" until the whole room of grade school kids were crying about how sorry they were. So at least outside of Japan there seems to be some (perhaps over the top) education about the atrocities committed by the Japanese government to Japanese students, but I agree, most of the Japan educated Japanese people I've spoken to are just vaguely aware that they did some bad stuff before they got nuked.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Centuries? I knew their bad period started roughly around the Meiji Era and stopped after WWII, in regards to killing people, but that hardly constitutes centuries

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've seen so many times this images and still not understand if the reply is serious or trolling OP

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    MIND BLOWING 🤯

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