-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?
-Sure. What are you looking for?
-Anything, as long as it doesn’t have rice or soy in it.
-… here you go.
Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that’s the only way you’re going to avoid all the people who don’t share your beliefs.
It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture.
Actually you do if you pay for anime. Sucks to live in a capitalist society, but this is one thing that results from it – you vote with your wallet. And by the way, you obviously have a very narrow view of Japan if you think that this is a deep-set part of the culture. For one thing, it’s not hard to find Japanese media without those things, and for two, such things offend the sensibilities of many Japanese people I know.
It’s part of a Japanese subculture. And it’s actually part of a subculture in western countries too, since they exported it. Western fans ask for that kind of stuff just like Japanese fans do. This is why you see it even in, say, Netflix-produced anime.
From what I understand, most anime is made for Japanese audiences and licensed out for localization after the fact. I’d be surprised if more than a few Japanese companies spent much time considering what the rest of the world wants to watch.
That’s their standard. The rest of the world doesn’t get a say, same way Nigerians don’t get to tell British gay folk not to be gay, Scandinavians don’t get to tell Americans what kind of gun laws they should have, and you don’t get to ban the Chinese from eating dogs. Your standards don’t determine the lives of people half a world away. If they don’t it want to change, it won’t.
Exactly. There are a lot of things I find uncomfortable about other cultures, but I know I can’t force my beliefs onto other cultures. They have to deal with that themselves.
-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?
-Sure. What are you looking for?
-Anything, as long as it doesn’t have rice or soy in it.
-… here you go.
Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that’s the only way you’re going to avoid all the people who don’t share your beliefs.
Actually you do if you pay for anime. Sucks to live in a capitalist society, but this is one thing that results from it – you vote with your wallet. And by the way, you obviously have a very narrow view of Japan if you think that this is a deep-set part of the culture. For one thing, it’s not hard to find Japanese media without those things, and for two, such things offend the sensibilities of many Japanese people I know.
It’s part of a Japanese subculture. And it’s actually part of a subculture in western countries too, since they exported it. Western fans ask for that kind of stuff just like Japanese fans do. This is why you see it even in, say, Netflix-produced anime.
From what I understand, most anime is made for Japanese audiences and licensed out for localization after the fact. I’d be surprised if more than a few Japanese companies spent much time considering what the rest of the world wants to watch.
Young female beauty = 5 - 16 years old female = minors
That’s their standard. The rest of the world doesn’t get a say, same way Nigerians don’t get to tell British gay folk not to be gay, Scandinavians don’t get to tell Americans what kind of gun laws they should have, and you don’t get to ban the Chinese from eating dogs. Your standards don’t determine the lives of people half a world away. If they don’t it want to change, it won’t.
Exactly. There are a lot of things I find uncomfortable about other cultures, but I know I can’t force my beliefs onto other cultures. They have to deal with that themselves.
Nonce
That’s quite uncalled for. They may have a brain-dead take on cultural relativism but that doesn’t mean they are themself into sexualized children.