oddballsamuraisan:

capsep:

haraamzadi: stfuantiblackasians: haraamzadi: idk the context of this but of course it’s a brown person who gets called out for appropriating or misunderstanding an east asian culture when it seems like the manga-ka is completely stereotyping brown people to be ignorant cultureless morons. while refusing to answer for the loads of appropriation and ridicule of brown cultures that east asian cultures are accountable for. kinda tired of it tbh. i see stuff like this but not much about east asians getting collected for blatant anti-blackness and appropriation when the latter happens 24 fucking 7. I’d like to ask why the mangaka didn’t use a white person since there are FAR more white people fucking up then there are brown ones. The fact that they used a Black person says a lot really. - J yup. all it really gets across to me is “i care more about ridiculing black people than actually confronting racist and exoticizing stereotypes… in fact i love to enforce those!” maybe the mangaka used a black person because he himself is African American (yes American) and went to Japan and this is sort of autobiographical???? Can you like, go outside sometime? or maybe learn to look shit up before you start calling shit racist?

The reason I like this is because it addresses one of the major misconceptions about my country.



Also, consider looking how misconstrued and ridiculed other cultures are. I’m sure there was a point where people had some identity crisis and decided it was ok associating themselves with that culture.



There was a point where both our cultures didn’t want to be “our own” because we were looked down upon by a certain race of non-color.



Fast-foreward to the present. Look at how both cultures have progressed. And trust me when I say this, look mainstream African-American culture has be mixed with the USA, tell me where there isn’t some form of indignation. Look at all who stand as the face of American popular culture/music. Look how kids of this generation, of different races and cultures, want to be BLACK.



The point being, is that it addresses indignation as a whole. Its not just in my country, but US as well.



Maybe if anyone took the time to read and understand what this panel was addressing, then there would be no reason to pull the damn race card out.





