To Masta

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Don't argue with Artisticgurlywurlybigburly

 

[Casey]

no no, Duke got it..

Got what? The "I said good day" catchphrase from Fez in That 70's show that the creators of the show admittedly took from Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willy Wonka in the 70's movie??

 

[Duke]

Smartass alert!!!

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Got what? The "I said good day" catchphrase from Fez in That 70's show that the creators of the show admittedly took from Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willy Wonka in the 70's movie??

Technical-shmechnical... If my post had an voice it would be that of Fez. If Duke said "artistic Willy Wonka, it would be a Fail.

 

[S. Fourteen]

I see you masta

I have a headache.. lets have net beef. We can argue about mainstream anime sucking or the myth of Japanese women being loyal wives. Anything.

 

[masta247]

But I can't disagree with that

Let's talk about Japanese boys and small weenies.

 

[S. Fourteen]

there's something really homo about grown men discussing penis sizes. so I will make it brief -- it was not too long ago when some of my friends were arguing about who had the bigger penis.

Being half-Japanese, I've had my share of Japanophile women (white, black and Taiwanese) and there's something freaky about being pursued because of your ethnic background.

My sister, one day, came from school with rashes due to emotional distress because some american otaku drew her as a naked anime character and pasted on school buses.

I knew a white kid named Kevin in middle school.. he had the worst case of ear infection I've encountered and he stunk for good part of 8th grade. Anyway, he hated all races except for Japanese.. a bit freaky even for a 14 year old. No?

Another thing that pops up is how people describe other people as Emo. Or they have Emo hair. Or saying "you're fucking Emo" like I'm supposed to be offended by that?

Somebody said Japanese men have emo hair.

I say Japanese hip hop artists have negro hair.

 

[masta247]

Japanese women at least have all those funny stereotypes about them but I don't get it why girls would like Japanese guys with small weenies. That's disturbing.

A good friend of mine is also half-Japanese but most of the chicks that pursue him were fucking ugly like most Japanophile girls I've seen.

Women here like negro boys - that's because we don't really have many of them and they are said to have massive genitals.

 

[S. Fourteen]

Well, the thing is - some women just want the dick. In much similar way some of us men just want tits and ass. I don't know why you're disturbed by that. Clearly, a woman with flat chest and ass is fully capable of satisfying a man if it comes down to it.

So, women there likes negro boys. Probably in much similar way the cracker boys there want to be like the american negro boys. It's the same source I think. I hear some boys in your parts of Europe take the whole thuggish-I-don't-give-a-fuck type attitude seriously. At least the Latvian kid on YouTube that I had net beef with did.

On the other hand - Yamatodamshii is slowly dying. Japanese men are all turning into girly men. I'd say it's the western influence but one would think it'd be the opposite 'cause the whole macho, big penis, big cars thing is totally western.

I point my fingers at the people who benefit from men obsessing about beauty and fashion trends. Women of first world countries aren't enough consumers. They want more I think.

I, for one, have been polishing my yamatodamshii in the past few years. I've been questioned why I am so protective of Japanese culture and I think it's the same reason why I hate on all the bullshit rap out there.

Foreigners who view Japan through Morning Musume, Johnny & Associates, and shallow mechanized anime or not understand beyond the slapstick of Japanese comedy aren't getting it. Something about it boils my blood.

Clearly, I spend too much time reading YouTube comments and have lost hope for humanity.

 

[masta247]

Japanese people seem strange to western dudes and I know that it's not the Japanese culture that is strange but a mixture of it and the western culture. I really dislike the fact that especially Japanese youth wants to be so cool and more foreign than foreigners in fact creating some uber-retarded fashions and cultures and there it evolves way faster than in the western world.
I think that even a few years ago Japan was way more Japanese than it is right now. In bigger cities (actually from experience I can only speak about a few like Tokyo or Nara) people don't really care much about their tradition and origins much anymore.

 

[S. Fourteen]

Lots of truth there... I was fortunate enough to live the best part of the Showa era. Now it's Heisei era Year 20. The Japan I know and the Japan that exist is very different. It makes me sad, and the only thing I can do is try to be more Japanese. There's a part of me in my late teens and early 20s that was letting it go because I thought that that would be easier.. I might have been wrong. More to say but I am sleepy so I will leave with this little article.

The Showa days: Were they really that good?

By KAORI SHOJI
True to their inherent sentimentality, the Japanese often get all misty-eyed about times past. Lately the phrase "furuki yoki Showa (the good old Showa days)" has been bandied about. But, one is inclined to ask, were the Showa days really as good as the media would have us believe?

The Showa Emperor's reign (1926-1989) was, for all intents and purposes, a pretty happening era. The Great Depression of Showa, followed by the rise of military dictatorship, World War II and the rebuilding of the country to Western specifications are some of the major milestones.

Add to that inventions like the Walkman and Nintendo and you get six solid decades jam-packed with incident. As 82-year-old Tani-san in my neighborhood likes to say: "Jigoku mo tengoku mo minna Showa ni ajiwatta (We tasted both hell and heaven during the Showa years.)"

But Tani-san is honest enough to say that she never wants to go back, and that compared with present-day Heisei, Showa was the Dark Ages.

"In those days, there were no such wondrous things as hybrid cars, disposable diapers and the Washlet (the automated toilet few Japanese seem able to live without)," she says. "Showa living was a lot of hard work, not to mention those inconvenient toilets!" Tani-san divides Showa into three distinct periods: the surrender, which made her weep with relief; the first day in the postwar, black market years when she was able to eat three meals consisting of ginshari (pure white rice, so rare during the immediate postwar years as to be compared with gin, or silver), and when the family toilet was converted from kumitori (cesspit-style) to suisen (flush).

Indeed, there's a lot about Showa that makes us glad it's gone. Those of us Japanese who came of age in the last decade of the Showa Era were mortified by all the dasai (tacky) phenomena, such as keikoto (fluorescent lighting) in the home, heavy doses of ajinomoto (monosodium glutamate) in food and way too many kids per classroom, which just jacked up the level of competition for the notoriously difficult nyushi (entrance exams). Our hair was still pitch black (coloring is a Heisei thing), our school uniforms were unsexy, and the grown-ups around us still talked of the deprivation years during World War II like it happened yesterday, which meant we could never leave food on our plates or throw away half-used notebooks without causing a minor hemorrhage or two in the elders. "Mottainai! (What a waste!)" was a prominent Showa refrain, and if we close our eyes and listen, we can still hear it in the wind.

And in that pre-cell phone/e-mail period, phone calls from friends were closely monitored. One of the most typical images of a Showa teen would be him or her carrying the family phone as far away as possible from the living room and into the hallway (freezing in winter; suffocatingly hot in summer) and yakking with friends while being interrupted by yells of: "Itsu made denwa shite iru no? (How long are you going to be on that phone?)"

Having said that, there was a certain innocence to the Showa Era that's lacking in Heisei, fueling our nostalgia for times past.

Those Japanese who had experienced the economic "kodo seicho (Rapid Economic Growth)" years from the mid-'60s to the '70s generally say that, although the work was hard, there was a wonderful sense of purpose and achievement. The entire nation was united in a common desire for prosperity, which immediately translated into consumer items like suihanki (electric rice cookers), zenjido sentakki (fully automatic washing machines)," refrigerators, air conditioners, family cars (remember the Nissan "Familia"?). Urban apartments gradually evolved from the typical rokujo, yojohan (six tatami mat room combined with a 4.5-mat room)" to the "3LDK (three rooms plus a living/dining area and a kitchen)," allowing kids to have their own rooms, with perhaps their own TVs.

Now, of course, in a nation jaded by consumer goodies, desiring material goods is about the tackiest thing one can admit to. The younger generation is marked by its apathy toward "shusse (getting ahead)" and "okanemoke (working for wealth)" -- both terms that had been so fashionable in the Showa Era.

"Nani-mo hoshii mono-ga nai (There's nothing to want)" seems to be the general attitude these days, one that causes older Japanese to sigh with disgust or resignation and point to it as a major symptom of the "Heisei no higeki (Heisei tragedy)."

The Japan Times: Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004
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[masta247]

Well, maybe it's also a generation vs. generation thing - young people are against those older, more conservative ones.
Actually if I remember correctly it all started in the 80s - when young people started to fall under the influence of the western world and their parents were helpless. Rock music, jeans jackets, coke and all other stuff that came from America.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

this looks potentially painful

 

[ArtsyGirl]

this looks potentially painful

Potentially??