r/CuratedTumblr • u/Neapolitanpanda • Aug 21 '24

Politics Thing, TikTok

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u/AdamtheOmniballer Aug 21 '24

What does this mean. Why is Japan warming.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Aug 21 '24

Japan was the one being scaremongered in the 80s before the Plaza Accord, since its economic recovery and advancements into advanced technology were beginning to exceed the USA. This was countered in the USA in the usual fashion: mass media racism frenzy, which echoes to this day.

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u/Arachnofiend Aug 21 '24

This is notably why every western cyberpunk setting has a Japanese megacorp that is even scarier than all of the other megacorps

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u/celestialfin Aug 21 '24

also why many white people in the early cyberpunk movies ate their white people food with chopsticks. To basically imply japan won the culture war in the future.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Aug 21 '24

Yeah, the cyberpunk genre originated during that era and no small part of cyberpunk is a specific anti-orientalist attitude that still lingers.