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Originally Posted by KirbyMorph
Your a typical American, that's for sure. Go watch Fox or something for 5 minutes. Tell me how much non-American history / culture is showed. None. American television is lucky enough to have the token 'black guy' show up for an episode of a show let alone display another culture. Take Friends. All white people in New York doing American things. Look at the Justice League cartoon. Green Lantern is a black guy because they thought having an all white Justice League would be racist and bad publicity. (GL is Kyle Raynor, a white guy in the comics, at least at the time of the JL cartoon being launched). There are no Asians on the team or even Europeans for reference. Ever watch Ninja Turtles? Ya, they were ninjas. Thats all the influence from Japan they needed. The rest was American cliches like Cowabunga and it was set in New York. Not once did they ever leave NY.
You talk about the tough looking Japanese gang kids. Have you ever watched an American teenage drama set in school? Ever see the nerds getting beat up by the jocks? Wow, not cliched at all.
What history does America learn in school besides US history? None. What books do they read in literature classes that arent American in origin (Shakespeare doesnt count)? None. Finally, what television shows have anything but American pop culture references or history in them? You dont like the fact Japan might want to teach their people/children about their history through media? Then why the hell does America have like 800 'epic' war movies ranging from their utter defeat in Vietnam (which every movie pretty much makes out like they won it) and the WW2 movies that makes America look great when they were the ones who sat on the sidelines and didnt bother helping until they themselves got attacked. Bravo on 'teaching' with those movies. Lets go watch the Patriot for another historical 'epic'. Where does Japan get off making Samurai stuff anyways? Its not like it was part of their culture until the 19th century or anything.
You think its weird they have Japan as the surviving country or world leader or whatever in their shows? Ever watch any movies in America? Lets go with something like Independencce Day. Wow, the US just happens to be the leader of the world. They are the only ones with half a clue to take down the enemies and basically save everyones ass. Right. Armegeddon is pretty much the same way. Oh the drama. Im not even gonna bother listing the countless other examples of America being the most dominant force on the planet in movies.
So, it's just like America in the past and present then? Maybe if you drop another nuke on the country, they might stop having this weird dislike for Americans.
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Way to cover up any good point you could have made with an anti-american rant.
While you are right in pointing out that a series made in country 'x' for viewing in country 'x' will use cultural reference from country 'x', you continued into a pointless rant. Does America hype their involvement in ww2? Yes, but can you honestly say other countries on the winning side don't do the same? just like japan and germany like to downplay their roles in the war. The US didn't get involved until attacked because people here didn't want to get involved in a war. Can you really blame someone for that? Also, excpet of the navy, the US really didn't have much of a military at the time. The thinking was a strong navy will keep the coast safe from invasion, and for anything else we can just draft people. I'd continue, but you can easily do a search and find another thread that discusses stuff like this. I will say though, I consider selling destroyers to the british, sending vast amounts of war supplies, and even taking over convoy escort for half the trip across the atlantic, all at a time when the US was supposed to be neutral, helping out. In fact that would have been more than enough justification for germany to legally declar war on the US in 1939 or 40. Not that germany was concerned with international law at the time...