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    1. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      By the 1980s, one could say that these fears became a reality. Japan now manufactured the majority of the world's electronics. Japanese-based media, anime and music, were becoming popular with youth. Chevrolet and Chrysler were being replaced by the likes of Toyota and Honda.

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    2. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      While the US was still reeling from the energy crises, the Japanese economy showed no signs of stopping. Nothing seemed to stop them, and western companies, especially in the realm of tech, were struggling or outright failing to keep up with their Japanese counterparts.

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    3. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      We would of course know that the bubble economy popped and crashed hard right at the start of 1990, a economic stagnation that Japan battles to this day, but for our purposes and for someone living in say, 1982, Japan was headed to become a new global superpower.

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    4. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      So if you were an American from 1982 watching Japanese corporations and culture slowly eat up everything around you, what would your dystopia look like?pic.twitter.com/P3nv2oBud8

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    5. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      Well, your dystopia probably looks like giant corporate conglomerates, but more importantly, Japanese corporate conglomerates. Neon signs in Japanese kanji. Billboards showcasing East Asian women, not white women, as the standard of beauty.

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    6. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      Bloody hell, our main character, who is white, isn't using a fork! He's using chopsticks!pic.twitter.com/fU4h6QJFeE

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    7. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      The association with East Asian aesthetics and 1980s cyberpunk isn't a coincidence - it was a very real reaction to a fear of perceived neo-colonialism on part of Japan. Ironic, as America had been rampantly exporting its culture for the decades prior, but nevertheless very real.

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    8. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      Alarmingly, this sort of Yellow Peril Dystopianism continues to this day. A prominent example I see rarely brought up is Mirror's Edge is itself set in a dystopian surveillance state. Its built environment is largely in English, but things like crates and signs in hallwayspic.twitter.com/VXauZZWKgW

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    9. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      were, for some reason, bilingual in both English and Chinese. In 2008, when Mirror's Edge was released, Japan wasn't the economic powerhouse it was, but China was already visibly on its road there, which makes the game's use of Chinese in its environment that much more loaded.

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    10. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      As a sort of continuation of yesterday's diatribe I do find it very fascinating, if a little scary as a Japanese/Chinese person myself, to watch how CP 2077, a game released in the year of our lord 2020, continues to unquestionably and uncritically uphold these tropes.

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      Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

      California is a state with a rich Asian history (and not just that of the Chinese and Japanese!), and seeing CP77 continue to treat East Asians as some kind of invasive force in its environment and characters is, well, ridiculous, to put it mildly.

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        2. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          It's not just that Asian aesthetics exist in the game, but also how it's framed in such an easily otherising manner: you either speak normally or you speak Asian (or some other racial stereotype). The characters are either normal or they're Asian (or something "else").

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        3. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Hell, you can design V's face to be robot fucking Fu Manchu, "Asian" in every likeness, but they'll still be treated as white. Because you're white and normal, unlike those Asians roaming Night City.

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        4. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Blade Runner's inclusion of Asian aesthetics in a setting where all heroic figures and "the common man" are white is done to depict the influence Asian culture as a parasitic, invasive force taking over white America/California; CP77 does it all the same.

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        5. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Kavaeric Retweeted * 💉* I LIKE TO HAVE EVIL VAX

          As @vexwerewolf puts it, shittiness tends to be connected to other shittiness. CDPR's transphobia and general hate of both game developers and gamers wanting a finished product of course would not be complete without a bit of uncritical racism in the mix.https://twitter.com/vexwerewolf/status/1338535400197984261 …

          Kavaeric added,

          * 💉* I LIKE TO HAVE EVIL VAX @vexwerewolf
          Like, the whole thing about intersectionality is that "shittiness tends to be connected to other shittiness." Transphobes are likely to also have shitty opinions on labour, so they'll treat their workers poorly, which is why the CDPR's staff got crunched so brutally.
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        6. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          As with most of my threads, there's a whole load of other things I could talk about: the paradox of "cheap Asian labour" vs "rich Asians coming to take everything", how this new breed of orientalism now accounts for sinophobia too, and how it's connected to the pandemic...

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        7. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          But I think based on what I've written here I hope my supposed friends and followers of my scifi work can understand don't have warm feelings towards CP, or how I really don't care for them when their cis - and white - selves insist on playing the game with an uncritical eye.

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        8. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          If this is what you call "ruining your fun", wait till you hear what life has been like for the past year or so.pic.twitter.com/gyoJFCMe4O

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        9. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Further reading: @Yinyangfooey wrote for @WIRED about Cyberpunk 2077's orientalism and its place in larger the larger cyberpunk trope. He's actually, yknow, a writer who knows how to make the words sound good, so give his article a read.https://www.wired.com/story/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter …

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        10. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Yeah, he knows how to make the words sound gooder than I can.pic.twitter.com/Yzs4bUhQ5R

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        11. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Kavaeric Retweeted A Gay Raccoon

          More addendums: Racism towards East Asians is a particularly difficult topic because of how different it manifests itself from Black/Native discrimination, but also because white society has done a very good job at obscuring said racism.https://twitter.com/Crazy_Procyon/status/1338560020015804416 …

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          I'm really glad for this thread because I gotta be honest, I didn't realize the Blade Runner thing was about America "being invaded" and now I feel stupid cause it's pretty obvious. Especially considering the context of what the average american is/was afraid of
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        12. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          The whole fiasco with that school board lumping "Asians" with "whites" and separate from "POC" from a few weeks back sort of says it all, and it's a way to discredit Asian struggles and also divide and conquer POC that works out to be shockingly effective.

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        13. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          It's something of a very insidious but highly useful method of boxing us in: on the white side, we're told we're exceptional and are model ethnic groups, but those standards they hold us to are exceedingly white; stepping out of line results in punishment.

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        14. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          A Black peer of mine once referred to Asian-white dynamics as "an abusive racial relationship", whereby we're held to their standards and expected to fall in line, while also forcing us to allow them to co-opt our culture, racial in-jokes, and mannerisms openly.

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        15. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          Further to that, this buddy-buddy nature is then weaponised to force a sort of "POC wedge" between us and other ethnic groups: you're not like /those/ Black and Native and Latinx people who are super ethnic, you're like /us/, virtuous white people who act in civilised ways.

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        16. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          This wedge means that other POC groups start to distrust East Asians, and vice versa. Asians are stuck between white people who get to puppet our measure of success and still hold power on who gets to be "good Asians", and other POC buy in and view us as effectively white.

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        17. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

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          Further reading: A previous thread I did regarding Japanese/East Asian cultural appropriationhttps://twitter.com/Kavaeric/status/1330194962613465089 …

          Kavaeric added,

          Kavaeric @Kavaeric
          I want to comment on this as another Japanese person because Japanese culture is an odd bird when it comes to the matter of cultural appropriation https://twitter.com/mosspond_/status/1330169167161544705 …
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        18. Kavaeric‏ @Kavaeric 14 Dec 2020

          This twitter thread has spread far enough to reach people who will automatically assume I'm American so I think it's time to mute

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