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just another oddy trope
P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Katılım Kasım 2015
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Today was the Cherry Blossom Festival here in Nashville, which is an annual event that celebrates Japanese culture 🇯🇵🌸
After spending 3 months in Tokyo last year, I was curious to see what a Japanese-inspired event would look like in America.
The first thing that I noticed, however, was that other attendees were disproportionately overweight white women. And among the people dressed up for the event, they were almost exclusively obese white women with colorful hair.
This struck me as strange, because this is not what the average person in Nashville looks like. Despite being in the south, Nashville is a relatively lean city. I definitely think that the Cherry Blossom Festival itself was attracting a specific type of crowd.
And I find that so curious, because these overweight, unkempt women were clearly fans of Japanese culture and esthetics, but they simultaneously couldn't have been further from embodying Japanese beauty.
Japanese women tend to be lean, feminine, well-groomed, reserved, and modest. The women at the Festival were basically the complete opposite of that. It seemed like they thought they could just put on a costume and emulate Japanese culture, but what they failed to realize is that Japanese culture is considered so beautiful and desirable because it's disciplined. It's precise. It's intentional.
From the looks of it, these are not values that any of these women hold dear. The image of a tattooed, 300 pound woman, with unbrushed hair, spilling out of an anime cosplay outfit is... jarring, to say the least, because it goes against so much of what makes Japanese culture Japanese.
It seemed like they believed Japanese culture was beautiful, but didn't understand that that beauty took work and a certain character to achieve. Work they weren't willing to do, and a character they weren't interested in aspiring to.
And the fact that this type of woman is so interested in Japan is also strange to me, considering that Japan possesses a lot of the same qualities that these women likely complain about when it comes to America.
Japan is an ethnonationalist country with strict immigration. They are tough on crime. They are socially conservative. They value social cohesion and personal responsibility.
These qualities are all strengths when it comes to Japan, but these women, once more, all but certainly oppose such practices in America, failing to understand that Japanese success isn't an accident. It's specifically thanks to these policies.
In any case, I don't share these thoughts to body shame anyone, but rather to note how, despite their apparent interest in Japanese culture, western liberals are essentially its polar opposite. Esthetically, politically, and socially.




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@hashjenni I wish they would either disappear or learn humility
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Hot take, but influencers have literally ruined everything. Music festivals, vacation destinations, the whole of social media, stores…literally everything.
Lazzyyyyyy@em_Lazzy
Whats you Hot take???
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@tufpraise Theres no way u posted that with a straight face and believed u were cooking.
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The Christian conservative mind cannot fathom someone being simultaneously religious and not hateful
.davιd🎀@dqveed
Why is a Muslim mayor openly joining an LGBT pride march? Something doesn’t add up.
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@Notwokenow Wait but honest question tho I thought black ppl were underprivileged as a whole in this country ? This does not fit the narrative
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🚨 BREAKING: Calls are mounting to MASS IMPEACH JUDGES across America after a Haitian illegal alien here on Temporary Status SPECIFICALLY went to a Fort Myers, FL gas station to kill the mother
How can this not make your blood boil?
Our judges are protecting Haitian TPS status. They don't want to let Trump terminate these people's status to deport them.
START IMPEACHING, hold politicians accountable and MASS DEPORT!
He will be deported regardless of the outcome of his criminal case.
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Uh oh .
Another politician needs to get schooled. Again.
Don't make us do it. Don't make us.
Should we do it?
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon. Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.
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@travelingflying Nothing more deranged than a confused nepo zebra kid istg
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@qualitylearnc Only women, spoiled brats, and closet homosexuals.
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@ViralTimee Leave it to someone name “viraltime” to post the fakest most scripted shit. Damn y’all parasites for attention
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@joeroganhq Whats hilarious about this is it’s all about the algorithm n what u personally like/watch etc. Constructive criticism is one thing but not when it’s based on your own preferences. Not to mention u can ignore things or gear it to showing u less of something u dont like. 🧢
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Man is freaking out because he’s at the grocery store and he shows that all the items he normally buys now say they’re ineligible for EBT
The grocery store has put up these new little signs by items saying they’re no longer eligible for Food Stamps
“It’s happening. What am I gonna drink now? Not eligible. What is going on man, what we supposed to drink now? Not eligible. Not eligible”
Life hack: If you have a job and use your debt card, it’s all eligible to be purchased
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@Kaizerrev 90% of podcasters have become insufferable. Their need for content creation is parasitic
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@EricLDaugh @joshuaryalswg Yeah but then how would their bosses get away with it
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@joshuaryalswg This would stop if they were on the hook for it.
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when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it.
gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know."
he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done."
neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals.
together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity."
spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined.
the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!




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