I guess what complicates the sneering people have about weeaboos etc is that a lot of the bullshit is homegrown Like, the absurd stereotypes of "samurai" and "ninja" we have were *already there* in Japanese culture before we got wind of it, which doesn't make it any more real
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And that they'd elevate Qin Shi Huang in the process It's like going out of your way as a Western Marxist to say "Cicero sucked actually" and then pick some bad guy from history to elevate -- "You know, Augustus Caesar, who killed him, was actually Woke"
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Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
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That kind of makes more sense in the present moment in the US, when so much of history is the site of intense cultural fighting. Like, people are still fighting about Aristotle.
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