/lit/ - Literature

>>2985232
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I think Japan's prevalence in western pop culture is precisely because their culture wasn't really extinguished so much as transmutated (bad joke I'm sorry).

I mean, I know this is a terrible example, but take anime for instance. Since the end of WW2, Japanimation has been heavily influenced by Disney and the like. Japanese rock has been exceedingly influenced by surf-rock and other western pop music. And yet, when we as Americans try to imitated what they've done with their westernization, like copy their animation technique, it just comes out as horribly bland. Avatar/Korra aren't bad series, but it's hard to argue that they were made to have multi-cultural appeal and be the least offensive as possible (which basically entails doing what America does best, exposing the evils of colonialism and hating itself, while simultaneously occupying the Middle East and engaging in neocolonialism everywhere else).

/rant