Japan is like if you combined 1950s white America with one of Ted's nightmares :a-guy:

  • lascaux [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    its obviously true that there are a ton of shitty things about japan. that doesnt mean that high and low is a bad movie, or that hokusai was a bad artist, or whatever. if you find a culture out there that doesnt have shitty elements please let me know because as far as im aware they don't exist and i am going to continue to enjoy art produced by those cultures because i don't want my life to be dour and joyless.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Soviet (for its time) and Cuban come pretty close

    • SpaceCosmonotkey [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      enjoy it by all means! i enjoyed avatar, doesn't mean i still don't say Death To America every day of my life.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        doesn’t mean i still don’t say Death To America every day of my life

        are you https://hexbear.net/u/2Password2Remember haha

          • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Alot of Japanese art aestetic is based on old Jomon art. Which is the equalivant of white people wearing turquoise rings and feather caps

            • Abraxiel
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              2 years ago

              Do you mean the Jomon period, comprising almost the entirety of paleolithic Japanese history?

              • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Yes, the autocorrext simply knows me well enough to autocorrect anything I type into a form of ham.

                The people the yayoai displaced.

                • Abraxiel
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                  2 years ago

                  The Jomon were a diverse group of paleolithic peoples in Japan named for their use of corded pottery. I don't know of any evidence they were displaced in a fashion similar to modern colonialism - or even the conquests or mass migrations of antiquity.

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Yes but that’s a thing most nations do.

              Just to name one random example, the Swedes, Norwegians and Finns have historically been pretty awful to the indigenous Sami people of Lapland, suppressing their religion, language and culture