Which might actually play into cultural appropriation issues, because the appropriator has an entirely different set of "how the world works" assumptions than members of the culture, and often they won't even realize just how bad their assumptions are.
Or, I was having a discussion about Kill Bill with a group of Japanese friends, and (out of all the issues with that movie) the one that really bugged them was the Bride driving through the streets of Tokyo with a bare blade prominently visible. It was like, it shouldn't even be an issue whether her victims' private armies could fight her off, because a situation like that would cause a major police mobilization that should simply have swamped her, because you don't do that in Tokyo.
And a discussion like this is how I know I've spent entirely too much time in Japan and applying for jobs there, because the idea of questions about my marital status, child-having status, and future family plans don't make me blink, despite knowing from my mother-the-lawyer that most of them are completely illegal in the US. [Are questions about marital status illegal here?]
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Date: 5 Nov 2010 12:53 am (UTC)Or, I was having a discussion about Kill Bill with a group of Japanese friends, and (out of all the issues with that movie) the one that really bugged them was the Bride driving through the streets of Tokyo with a bare blade prominently visible. It was like, it shouldn't even be an issue whether her victims' private armies could fight her off, because a situation like that would cause a major police mobilization that should simply have swamped her, because you don't do that in Tokyo.
And a discussion like this is how I know I've spent entirely too much time in Japan and applying for jobs there, because the idea of questions about my marital status, child-having status, and future family plans don't make me blink, despite knowing from my mother-the-lawyer that most of them are completely illegal in the US. [Are questions about marital status illegal here?]