It's weird and sad to think that heritage America will be turning to foreign media for entertainment, news, and communication. Hopefully it's just a temporary fallback while we assemble more alternative platforms and outlets.
Though notice how no one accuses the Japanese of "cultural appropriation" of Americana since 1945 ....
That being said, they pick and choose what they want, and turn it into something uniquely theirs .. and their entertainment can be said to simply not seek to change their culture, but to reinforce and celebrate it, and that's the difference between their entertainment and ours lately.
The same can be said for the shit written by and for blacks. I mean, come on, are they being told to be better people in their entertainment? Or are their shows just a celebration of ebonics and ghetto culture?
And, if you think about it, it's probably for very similar reasons to those outlined above.
There is little meaning to be found in the media produced for young black men.
And they too feel anomie. They are forced to, by leftist propaganda that constantly browbeats them with the message that they're an oppressed outsider, that will never be accepted by evil white culture.
Black Panther was also unintentional propaganda on the tenets of ethno-nationalism and strong borders and how those form the backbone of a peaceful and prosperous nation.
Up until the superhero hijinks kicked in, anyway.
Of course, the irony of the situation was completely lost by the "We Wuz Kangs" and "Diversity means no whites!" crowds.
Though notice how no one accuses the Japanese of "cultural appropriation" of Americana since 1945.
They probably dont want to admit that for the most part Japan likes Americana. Serious, you see it in Anime from time to time: They show America as a loud, brash, sometimes obnoxious person who nevertheless stands up for what is right and can be counted on in a tough spot at the end of the day. If Hollywood portrayed the US that way, the usual suspects would have a freaking aneurism and fly into apoplectic rage.
Also, slightly off topic but brought up in there, there is something I have been thinking about with the whole "Declining demographics" thing. I am starting to wonder if that is just another case of urban/rural divide at play. I know what the national stats are, but at least where I live I still see plenty of children around, with some families doing WAY more than their needed 2.3 children (there is a neighbor of mine with 4, which means by numbers alone they are already picking up slack).
I have to wonder if that applies in most western nations at the moment, and that part of the reason people think nations are dying is because the places that make the culture are all urban and liberal, and are not having children, while all of the unsung parts of the country that are looked down on as dumb hicks are still living their lives the same way they always have.
Yeah, I like Hetalia, too. Your description was pretty much America's character, spot on. Thing about "anime" is this: While the animated cartoon as a concept has been around for hundreds of years (Europeans started making dirty flip books out of page margins pretty much as soon as books became cheap, accessible, and popular), it was 100% an art form brought to its full realization in the USA, with Winsor McKay, Sullivan/Mesmer, the Fleischers, and yes, Disney/Iwerks. When I was a kid, the only Japanese animation I really remember being around was Kimba and Astroboy, both by the same author who was himself inspired by Disney. So Japanese animation itself is an example of Japanified Americana thrown back at Americans .. and Americans love it. Just like America in Hetalia would. How meta.
(I hate using special terms to denote who did what. To me, a comic book is a comic book and a cartoon is a cartoon no matter where it's from, and using special lingo is fuckin' racist. Doesn't matter what sort of audience it's aimed at, either. Either I like it or I don't, and it oughtn't matter where it's from, right?)
And all that "declining nations" shit is a load of hooey from corporations who think they need to make twice as much next year as they did this year, or they're not "successful" somehow, and think the only way to do it is to make sure humans keep doubling THEIR population as quickly as possible. This started in the late 1980s, when the effects of effective birth control was just starting to be shown, and population growth in the West was normalizing. Oh, yeah, the Baby Boom? Fuckers got hooked on selling to all those kids in the 1950s, and they thought the Boomers should have tons and tons of kids, too ........ because they're fuckin' ignorant of population dynamics (even without the Pill, it would have been only natural for birth rates to settle down. This sort of thing happens after mass deaths in various species.) Anyway, so that's when they started screeching about "declining birth rates", "debunking" the population bomb (if human generations were shorter than 20 years it'd be more obvious. If you were to see human explosion in the rat population, you'd be fucking alarmed. Just because of quicker generation turnover happening before your very eyeballs), all so they could stuff the West with mass immigration and chain migration and all that other crap, coupled with "waaaah, telling african beggars to use birth control is raycist" garbage. Oh, and when Canada brought in mass immigration (it was Mulroney who did that, btw, AFTER taking away our Baby Bonus cheques!), the job market turned right from a worker's market, to an employer's one. It was all a scam for cheap labour.
Besides corporatists pushing globalism (low paying jobs running very moderately low on supply? import migrants to remedy the problem and then some instead of allowing market forces to play out), the other premise of "declining populations" AFAIK seems to be an incredibly tenuous and unsustainable economic model of the young propping up the elderly.
It's 1 thing when a child supports his or her parents; it's another to ask them to support "social security", but in reality asking for contributions to 1 massive tax paid slush fund used for all types of governmental purposes. Irrespective of how tenable the program is in of itself, obviously the latter poses irrecoverable harm, and not even considering hyper inflation.
It's weird and sad to think that heritage America will be turning to foreign media for entertainment, news, and communication. Hopefully it's just a temporary fallback while we assemble more alternative platforms and outlets.
Though notice how no one accuses the Japanese of "cultural appropriation" of Americana since 1945 ....
That being said, they pick and choose what they want, and turn it into something uniquely theirs .. and their entertainment can be said to simply not seek to change their culture, but to reinforce and celebrate it, and that's the difference between their entertainment and ours lately.
The same can be said for the shit written by and for blacks. I mean, come on, are they being told to be better people in their entertainment? Or are their shows just a celebration of ebonics and ghetto culture?
I have yet to meet a black person who actually watched those "black shows"
Met plenty watching the shit out of anime though.
And, if you think about it, it's probably for very similar reasons to those outlined above.
There is little meaning to be found in the media produced for young black men.
And they too feel anomie. They are forced to, by leftist propaganda that constantly browbeats them with the message that they're an oppressed outsider, that will never be accepted by evil white culture.
It always gets hate here but Black Panther was a good example of this
Black Panther was also unintentional propaganda on the tenets of ethno-nationalism and strong borders and how those form the backbone of a peaceful and prosperous nation.
Up until the superhero hijinks kicked in, anyway.
Of course, the irony of the situation was completely lost by the "We Wuz Kangs" and "Diversity means no whites!" crowds.
Chadwick Bozeman was a racist piece of shit.
They probably dont want to admit that for the most part Japan likes Americana. Serious, you see it in Anime from time to time: They show America as a loud, brash, sometimes obnoxious person who nevertheless stands up for what is right and can be counted on in a tough spot at the end of the day. If Hollywood portrayed the US that way, the usual suspects would have a freaking aneurism and fly into apoplectic rage.
Also, slightly off topic but brought up in there, there is something I have been thinking about with the whole "Declining demographics" thing. I am starting to wonder if that is just another case of urban/rural divide at play. I know what the national stats are, but at least where I live I still see plenty of children around, with some families doing WAY more than their needed 2.3 children (there is a neighbor of mine with 4, which means by numbers alone they are already picking up slack).
I have to wonder if that applies in most western nations at the moment, and that part of the reason people think nations are dying is because the places that make the culture are all urban and liberal, and are not having children, while all of the unsung parts of the country that are looked down on as dumb hicks are still living their lives the same way they always have.
Yeah, I like Hetalia, too. Your description was pretty much America's character, spot on. Thing about "anime" is this: While the animated cartoon as a concept has been around for hundreds of years (Europeans started making dirty flip books out of page margins pretty much as soon as books became cheap, accessible, and popular), it was 100% an art form brought to its full realization in the USA, with Winsor McKay, Sullivan/Mesmer, the Fleischers, and yes, Disney/Iwerks. When I was a kid, the only Japanese animation I really remember being around was Kimba and Astroboy, both by the same author who was himself inspired by Disney. So Japanese animation itself is an example of Japanified Americana thrown back at Americans .. and Americans love it. Just like America in Hetalia would. How meta.
(I hate using special terms to denote who did what. To me, a comic book is a comic book and a cartoon is a cartoon no matter where it's from, and using special lingo is fuckin' racist. Doesn't matter what sort of audience it's aimed at, either. Either I like it or I don't, and it oughtn't matter where it's from, right?)
And all that "declining nations" shit is a load of hooey from corporations who think they need to make twice as much next year as they did this year, or they're not "successful" somehow, and think the only way to do it is to make sure humans keep doubling THEIR population as quickly as possible. This started in the late 1980s, when the effects of effective birth control was just starting to be shown, and population growth in the West was normalizing. Oh, yeah, the Baby Boom? Fuckers got hooked on selling to all those kids in the 1950s, and they thought the Boomers should have tons and tons of kids, too ........ because they're fuckin' ignorant of population dynamics (even without the Pill, it would have been only natural for birth rates to settle down. This sort of thing happens after mass deaths in various species.) Anyway, so that's when they started screeching about "declining birth rates", "debunking" the population bomb (if human generations were shorter than 20 years it'd be more obvious. If you were to see human explosion in the rat population, you'd be fucking alarmed. Just because of quicker generation turnover happening before your very eyeballs), all so they could stuff the West with mass immigration and chain migration and all that other crap, coupled with "waaaah, telling african beggars to use birth control is raycist" garbage. Oh, and when Canada brought in mass immigration (it was Mulroney who did that, btw, AFTER taking away our Baby Bonus cheques!), the job market turned right from a worker's market, to an employer's one. It was all a scam for cheap labour.
Besides corporatists pushing globalism (low paying jobs running very moderately low on supply? import migrants to remedy the problem and then some instead of allowing market forces to play out), the other premise of "declining populations" AFAIK seems to be an incredibly tenuous and unsustainable economic model of the young propping up the elderly.
It's 1 thing when a child supports his or her parents; it's another to ask them to support "social security", but in reality asking for contributions to 1 massive tax paid slush fund used for all types of governmental purposes. Irrespective of how tenable the program is in of itself, obviously the latter poses irrecoverable harm, and not even considering hyper inflation.