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Feels like back in the 90's people were a bit more chill and didn't go into a genocidal lunatic rage at the mere mention of the country. Wild to think people used to get down with hong kong action movies.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    18 days ago

    The 80's and most of the 90's were the Japanese Yellow Scare

    We thought their quality products and affordable cars would bury us alive

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      18 days ago

      Most of the 90's

      Didn't Japan's real estate bubble crash heavily during those times?

      I mean, it seems that the U.S, in the 90s' generally, seemed to thrive, throughout the post-Cold War suffering that they've caused...

      Edit: Look at CindyTheSkull's response for explanation...

      • CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them]
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        18 days ago

        Did Japan's real estate bubble crash heavily during those times?

        The US reined in their vassals.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        18 days ago

        It crashed in 1991, but I think the yellow scare lasted into the mid 90s for some people. I remember my parents always acting like stuff made in Japan was inferior to American made products.

        • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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          18 days ago

          Hell I remember it in the late 90s and even early 2000s with the Pokemon satanic panic.

          Southpark literally made an episode at the time [Racism, dick shaming]

          spoiler

          where Pokemon was a weird thing Japan was using to brainwash kids. I forget the details, but there is a scene where the Japanese CEO's of Pokemon or whatever talk about (voiced by a white dude doing a very racist Japanese accent) how "Japan have small penis"