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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago

I dunno what the motivation behind this comic was, but I now want an entire series of Bostonian-Japanese Baseball Girl.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 67 points 1 year ago

Baseball.

Seriously Japan loves baseball and the mascots that come with it.

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they even have native word for it, I mean not even a kanji written loanword like sacca or baskettoboru

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Now I'm curious as to how many foreign sports have native words. Pretty much baseball and ping pong I think, unless you want to call mountaineering a foreign sport.

[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 71 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: the largest Japanese population outside of Japan is in Brazil.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Massachusetts also has a large Brazilian population!

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

The first panel is exactly why Japan has been super isolationist. Outside of tourist areas I’ve heard foreigners are never fully welcomed no matter how long they stay

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

Japan has been isolationist since way before weebs existed...

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah that’s what I meant, I suppose I could’ve made it more clear

[-] d4f0@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago
[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

It's really in this year

[-] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Not to suggest that this isn't xenophobia, nor that the subject can be summed up this succinctly, but there is something to be said for a culture not wanting to be swept away or squashed by others. As with pretty much everything else, there's middle ground.

but

No "but," it's plain xenophobia, no debate about it.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Not to suggest that this isn’t xenophobia

Miss that part, did you? Also, nothing is "plain" anything. Expand your view one bit and see the world for the complex place it is.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Obi-wan declaring himself a Sith was the weirdest part of the prequels.

[-] d4f0@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I think there's no middle ground when the answer is isolation instead of trying to integrate foreigners into the local culture.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Of course not. "Middle ground" necessitates effort on both sides. I just think it's worth bringing up when that word starts getting tossed around. It's easy to create hard lines when it gets used.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

TBH the same could be said for some areas of Boston....

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

That's mostly overstated and you usually hear it from people who don't speak Japanese who lived somewhere for a couple years teaching English after graduating college.

[-] match@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago

Have you heard Japanese people talk about Anne of Green Gables? This should've been about Maine

[-] MediumGray@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Of course Anne of Green Gables is set in PEI so really it should have been set there. It would have been even funnier since they could probably outnumber the current population pretty easily if they immigrated en masse.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they should go to Texas to be with Kenichi Smith.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My wife was more interested in the Louisa May Alcott house when she visited Mass for the first time!

[-] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Why would they be in Maine if they like Anne of Green Gables? Green Gables is in PEI, Canada.

[-] match@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago

I know that Anne of Green Gables takes place in PEI. But Maine is more accessible for Japanese tourists.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

As a life-long Masshole, I support this change.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I think the funniest part is Japanese people choosing Massachusetts which is famously difficult for Japanese speakers to say.

https://youtu.be/o2YZtniH9oc?si=VFlhZ57j9jGb-U7s

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

What in God's name are the rules of this show?

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like you laugh and you get a cheeky lil cheek slap by the IRA.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is neither clever nor insightful nor of any artistic value. So exactly the level of stuff that Western fetishists for their idea of Japanese culture, or Japanese people writing about the West are capable of. In that way - well done!

[-] match@pawb.social 22 points 1 year ago

Well, you are the divine.overseer of wit, wisdom, andnart, as well as the lord laureate of both the West and Japan, so i suppose i will take your word for it

[-] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah but even better put down your Waifu pillow and get on that Peloton.

this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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