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[13:55] *** Now talking in #suburbansenshi
[13:55] *** Topic is - What are your thoughts -
[13:55] *** Set by @Dr. X on Sun Jan 14 13:55 2007
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@Dr. X>
♦ Taking a break from the usual sub.sen for today, this is a conversation I had this morning, and as a fan of Japanese culture and cross-cultural iconography I'd thought I'd share-- feel free to weigh in in the comments
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@Shaldra Darkness> I shouldn't have watched Afro Samurai again D:
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@Shaldra Darkness> It's confusing me more because now there are robot ninja D:
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@Shaldra Darkness> Yet the ninja were in a shinto temple on the outskirts of a small village in the middle of nowhere
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@Shaldra Darkness> And I was like WTF is going on here
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@Dr. X> welcome to the american version of syncretic cross cultural borrowing
[13:12] * @Dr. X had written about this in WoL regarding Japanese appropriation fo japanese cultural stereotypes
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@Shaldra Darkness> The miko had a cellphone while bathing under a waterfall
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@Shaldra Darkness> [insert random sex scene here]
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@Dr. X> Japanese have been appropriating american stereotypes and culture for ages
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@Dr. X> I think we're finally seeing the exact opposite
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@Dr. X> Americans making a mashup of japanese anime stereotypes
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@Shaldra Darkness> But when the Japanese do it it's funny, when Afro Samurai does it it's confusing
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@Dr. X> only because you're looking at it through the lens of someone very versed in the parent culture these icons are coming from
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@Dr. X> to to casual fan, this show is a distillation of all the "cool" elements they have been exposed to
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@Dr. X> from Japanese anime and movies and such
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@Shaldra Darkness> It still makes me go o_o D:
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@Dr. X> ninjas, samurais, miko, temples, random sex etc
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@Shaldra Darkness> The SECOND EPISODE had a RANDOM SEX SCENE BETWEEN A MIKO AND A SAMURAI
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@Shaldra Darkness> I was like WTF is THIS~~~
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@Dr. X> i told you XD
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@Shaldra Darkness> And they all smoke weed for some apparent reason!
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@Shaldra Darkness> Instead of TEA they serve LEMONADE
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@Dr. X> this is remix culture finally hitting the mainstream
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