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🤯 damn, this explains basically everything that puzzled me about anime culture and East Asian culture in general
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americans inherently cant be cute because americans are largely allowed to advocate for themselves. almost always celebrated to promote your own struggle or life. cuteness is born from restricted self expression and inability to speak freely
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India oddly enough does not share this Asian tendency towards cuteness, despite being restrictive on self expression too. Instead I think it manifests as devoutness; a kind of surrendered life posture, but to a personally felt sense of the divine rather than to societal authority
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