https://x.com/GerHolanda63475/status/2045923095886672316
CW: SA Mention of the Comfort women
https://x.com/hlnolvrgo_c/status/2044507463173456300
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045525574408368600
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045545414875574751
Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations. They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.
https://x.com/AllbonesJones/status/2045309780177330663
I remember learning about that and wondering if they’d literally never experienced a contradiction before in their lives. Like, how the fuck do you hold such idealist views that would be completely nonsensical to any normal person? Surely they’ve had at least one experience where the reality was a disappointment compared to their imagination? How have they not developed a sense of skepticism?
Life in Japan is highly prescribed. Everything has an order, and it’s really common for people to have violent outbursts at very minor deviations from the prescribed process. You can probably imagine from there how far the ripples go through various social systems
So basically Japan is if OCD was a country.
This is a little bit like when weird orientalists declare that China has cultural autism
I’ve heard this claimed about the Dutch as well. Apparently direct, clear, and honest communication can’t be a cultural choice, it has to be a pathology. smdh