/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>47005367
By residents, what do you mean? If by youkai, absolutely so. If by humans, yes but with an asterisk. The human village of Gensokyo can even consist of naturalized outsiders, so they can spread what knowledge they have, along with whatever winds up falling into Gensokyo. However, most people who end up in Gensokyo aren't people with an encyclopedic knowledge of the outside world, and even if they were smart they'd likely not have all of their materials committed to memory. And what books from the outside world end up in Gensokyo, assuming they can even be read or are of interest to anyone, would almost certainly be outdated at the least.

So in short, if you asked the average human villager who wasn't an outsider if they knew what the world outside was like, they could probably name a few countries. China certainly, America too, but any further understanding of them would likely be blurry, mixed with fact and fiction and their own understanding of how the world works (for an example of what this would likely be, look up historic Japanese depictions of countries overseas. Pic related is George Washington fighting a tiger.) Human villagers know that an outside world exists, but their knowledge would be incredibly incomplete and muddled.