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The year is 2050 [Shen Comix] (lemmy.world)

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 128 points 3 months 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 68 points 3 months ago

Baseball.

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

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

No shit? What's the word?

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

It's やきゅう, yakyū

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Cool, TIL, thanks!

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months 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 72 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tal@lemmy.today 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Looks like the US is close, though!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora

Apparently the Brazilian center is São Paulo:

https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/p/why-brazil-is-home-to-so-many-people

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the idea of Japanese-Brazilian fusion cuisine 🤤

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Massachusetts also has a large Brazilian population!

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] d4f0@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago

That's called xenophobia.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago

It's really in this year

[+] ech@lemm.ee -9 points 3 months 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.

[-] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

but

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

[-] ech@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months 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 6 points 3 months ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] d4f0@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months 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 1 points 3 months 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 19 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months 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.

[+] Mango@lemmy.world -6 points 3 months ago

Can't blame them. The only place where I can blame people for not accepting other races is America where we done fucked all that up. The exception is if you're a native. Then you've got more reason than the rest of the planet and are pretty much the example they should all point at.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Are you an Australia denier?

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Their story match?

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Pretty much.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Well, everyone's gotta maintain their space.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

A lot of Aboriginal Australians would object to the idea that the land here is "their space". Aboriginal ideas of land ownership are very different to white ones. For most aboriginal tribes, the relationship with land isn't a property relationship like white people would understand it. It's a spiritual connection of interdependence. You might say that the people don't own the land, the land owns the people.

Nobody made the land they live on. Well, except for the Dutch. So how can you say land that has existed for millions of years longer than you is yours? Did you steal it? The white people in Australia sure did. They justified their colonisation with the idea that since aboriginals didn't have a white idea of land ownership, the land belonged to nobody and was free for the taking. But the reason many aboriginals wouldn't describe their relationship as ownership is because they don't believe land can be owned. The concept is nonsense. And those white people sure didn't cultivate a spiritual connection with the land the way things are supposed to be done around here.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Well the fact of the matter is that force of arms dictates "ownership". Owning something means you control it.

I didn't mention ownership though. You're coming at me with a bit of a chip on your shoulder. "Maintaining your space" means taking care of your boundaries, keeping distance from others when appropriate, and generally keeping safe however you see fit. Mowing your lawn and shaving your face are the same this way.

I love the Dutch. They're real life team magma!

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Lawns were invented by rich white people as status symbols, because it's ostentatious to own land that serves no useful purpose. I criticised the white concept of land ownership, and you responded that you didn't mean white land ownership, you meant white land waste. Honestly, I don't see the difference.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

You're doing an excellent job of missing my point and trying to make me feel bad for my race, but the stuff you're saying here means nothing about me. Take care of yourself, k?

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

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

[-] match@pawb.social 23 points 3 months ago

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

[-] MediumGray@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months 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 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] match@pawb.social -2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Man everyone loves Anne of Green Gables. I've loved Mathew, Marilla, Diana, and Gilbert since I was kid. They are an international treasure.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months 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 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

Gotta challenge yourself.

Also that's hilarious. So many silent and not so silent Us in that.

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