I SAID IT! FUCK JAPAN! It's the uninterrupted continuation of Imperial Japan, and it unilaterally deserves it's just condemnation for the horror it's wrecked across Asia.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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      4 years ago

      in Japan for instance it’s pretty ok to be gender nonconformist and has been for a long time

      Hm, I'd have to say that I'd have to do an examination of modern Japanese culture but from my studies into the history of Japan from the cold war back Japan's gone through a cultural transformation stemming from the Meij era that changed Japan's attitude towards gender from being that of a more open and non-conformist to a more western orientated cultural perspective on gender norms due to it's drive towards "modernization" in order to not be swallowed up by western imperialists.

      • Express [any,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I’m not the best expert on Japanese history and I don’t even pretend to understand all the ins and outs of it. Any culture is to complex and filled with to many moving parts for me to feel confident ascribing a single cause to something. I’m just some weeb, but I think approaching cultures like they are their own things all with their great parts and horrid parts is the right away to go. I’m not saying your wrong by the way, but it also isn’t something that was tainted by those evil westerners either and it was good before. The problems were just different because of the way dialectics were unfolding and it had some pretty disastrous consequences.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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          4 years ago

          it also isn’t something that was tainted by those evil westerners either and it was good before.

          Nah I approach the whole thing from a historical amoral stance since this is all stuff that has happened and can not be changed but can be observed as how it impacts the modern era.

          The fault of Japan's change with the Meiji restoration, aka Japan's great opening up to the outside world, is that the new imperial government that arose from the Boshin War reacted in recoil to how vast the world was and how they were a minnow in an ocean of sharks. Their choice to pursue modernization, imperialization and westernization is understandable in context that those who do not oppress are in turn oppressed themselves.