“Japan and other Asian countries accounted for more than a fifth of the 1.3 million eyelid procedures performed worldwide. This article from Business Insider highlights some disturbing facts about Japan. Now let’s get into Japanese culture itself. I mention this because it’s a semi-common thing in Asian culture. “There is the infamous story of Julie Chen in the 90s, the Chinese-American television personality who underwent double eyelid surgery after her boss said she’d never make it as a top news anchor because her eyes made her look “disinterested”. THIS is the kind of comments that drove her to do it: It’s a comparison of a Chinese woman who went through “surgery” to make her eyes more “Caucasian”. So what am I implying when I say “self hatred”, you might ask… And that’s because it’s an uncomfortable truth. The things I’m gonna get into aren’t covered by ANYBODY in the anime industry. Self-hatred in Asian culture (not just Japan) And everything connected to that in Asian and Japanese culture.ġ. Highlighting the dark truth of why anime characters don’t look Japanese. I also mentioned how anime characters are inherently Japanese, and most Americans, courtesy of bias, will find “blonde” characters to prove their arguments (even though there are examples of Japanese looking characters to destroy the argument).īut there’s another side to the story that has “truth” to itĪnd that’s the side I’ll address in this post. We all do it to an extent, because that’s how we relate to the characters and even understand them. So naturally if I see a brown character, bias will kick in and “claim” that character looks like me, and IS like me. ![]() ![]() I explained in that article that I “understand” why people believe this. Mostly to supremacists and some white people who think the world shines out their rear-end.Īnd to a degree – a small portion of fans in general. In my first article: I talked about the MYTH of anime characters looking white. I’ve written about this before, so I’m not new to this topic.
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