I watched a Japanese video about the awful classic 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie since I was curious about how it was viewed from a Japanese perspective. Disney’s involvement in the movie’s production is mentioned at which point the author jokes that “if today’s Disney was in charge, Mario would probably be made into a black guy”

I love how everyone’s brains are being pickled by the same shitty American culture wars worldwide

The comments were also great

“Toad could work as a black person because his head kind of resembles an afro”

“Italians are already considered a minority in America so they wouldn’t need to change him into a black man”

The best part about learning new languages is being able to read even more racist comments on the internet

  • manuallybreathing
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    7 months ago

    thats a pretty gross generalisation about almost 50million people, and has some pretty orientalist undertones.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      about almost 50million people

      Non Non Biyori screencap: Kazuho saying, "I can't let her know that this data is from the Meiji era"

      Not to detract from your point but yeah there’s ~124 million Japanese in the 2024th year of our Lord and 6th year of the reigning Emperor.

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        “Asians are the most racist” is a racist trope used by white people to minimize their own racism. It’s essentially the same thing as Americans trying to mitigate their own racism by pointing out European anti-ziganism.

        It’s also reductive and Eurocentric because it assumes that everyone adopts the same view of race that is common in the West, whereas in East Asia most ethnic groups are physically indistinguishable from each other and instead divide more along national and religious lines.

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          Lmao Asian ethnic groups are absolutely not physically indistinguishable from each other.

          Also as a Chinese person… let me tell you… a significant majority of East Asians are racist af. Just like everywhere else.

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            Lmao Asian ethnic groups are absolutely not physically indistinguishable from each other.

            Well then tell that to the Korean and Japanese people who regularly confuse my Chinese ass as Korean or Japanese. Maybe I just have “one of those faces” but I’ve never seen a convincing and reasonably accurate explanation of how we look physically different between national groups that wasn’t just weird phrenology.

            Also as a Chinese person… let me tell you… a significant majority of East Asians are racist af.

            Damn, maybe you should find better friends because I’m sure not hanging around with a majority of racists.

            And yeah, some Asians are racist like you said. Some part of every population is racist. But “the most racist” means more racist than the slave trade, segregation, apartheid, the current genocide in Gaza, frequent hate crimes and racially motivated mass shootings. Asian people as a whole aren’t doing any of that shit.

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          I get the trope, but I wasn’t talking about Asians, I’m talking about Japan specifically.

          I didn’t mean to minimize white racism though, my bad.

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        7 months ago

        hivemind bullshit, redscare, one nation under an emperor, a mass of people with one thought.

        try not to generalise, and do not speculate on things you do not have a grounded understanding in, you’re inadvertently contributing to hatred and biogtry.