• VegaLyrae
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    1878 months ago

    I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.

    If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.

  • RandomStickman
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    Howdy, my name is Rawhide Kobayashi. I’m a 27 year old Japanese Japamerican (western culture fan for you foreigners). I brand and wrangle cattle on my ranch, and spend my days perfecting the craft and enjoying superior American passtimes. (Barbeque, Rodeo, Fireworks) I train with my branding iron every day, this superior weapon can permanently leave my ranch embled on a cattle’s hide because it is white-hot, and is vastly superior to any other method of livestock marking. I earned my branding license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day. I speak English fluently, both Texas and Oklahoma dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about American history and their cowboy code, which I follow 100% When I get my American visa, I am moving to Dallas to work in an oil field to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become a cattle wrangler for the Double Cross Ranch or an oil rig operator for Exxon-Mobil! I own several cowboy hats, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to America, so I can fit in easier. I rebel against my elders and seniors and speak English as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond. Wish me luck in America!

  • admiralteal
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    The “wild west” is a mostly invented culture anyway. It’s like high fantasy middle Europe, tiki bars, pirates of the carribian, ninjas… Can you really claim appropriation when the underlying culture is essentially a fiction?

    In real terms, what we think of as “the wild west” was made up by mostly-Italian movie directors.

    Not to even mention the screenshot is an English-language film that is unambiguously parody.

    • @dudinax@programming.dev
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      128 months ago

      Italien directors made a new wild west “culture” based partly on Japanese made Samurai movies which were partly based on the old wild west “culture” that was created by Hollywood.

    • @FireTower@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think anyone was arguing it’s cultural appropriation (or it’s negative). As an American I’m just glad that our nation’s history and culture has matured to the point people across the globe want to enjoy it with us.

    • zeekaran
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      38 months ago

      Samurai received a similar white washing and romanticization as cowboys did.

    • @OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Last year, I learned that there’s a special spot in German culture for the American West in general, and Custer’s last stand in particular. Apparently it stems from a 19th century German author named Karl May, who wrote several hugely popular fiction books set in the American West. Despite the fact that he’d never visited America, Karl based his personality off Buffalo Bill and went around dressed with a beartooth necklace.

      Anyway, this German friend is incredibly knowledgeable about Custer’s life. He told me about his family’s vacation to the site of Little Bighorn, and described in great detail the unit formations and troop movements that led up to the engagement.

      • @jcit878@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        if you havnt already, the movie ‘Guitar Wolf - Wild Zero’ is an absolute blast. Something about a (real) rockabilly band (guitar wolf) saving the world from an alien zombie invasion. I’ve seen the band play too, still the loudest concert I’ve ever been to

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    8 months ago

    If the weeb door swings both ways they must get pumped about someday coming to America and handling a real gun.

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      Oh, man. I saw one of those documentaries that article is talking about a good while back, and it must of been her. It took a bit to get over just how utterly bizarre that was, but the I thought, you know? Good for them. They seem to be getting a lot of good out of it.

      Related, the polish group that does American trailer park cosplay every year, and they’re weirdly on point with it. Only, the things that are off or missing are all just only a little bit wrong. The kinds of things you wouldn’t think of consciously, so it gives a lot of the photos an unsettling air that you can’t quite explain.

      The war vet’s posture is perfect, but his hair and clothing are just a little too clean-cut for who he’s trying to be. Those people do fit the atmosphere, but they would never be talking to each other in a million years. That man definitely owns multiple guns, but he’s not standing like he’s ever fired one. Everyone is holding the fork in their left hand and none of the cups at the BBQ are a matching set. “Her makeup is way too dark for her to be a staunch republican” is not a thought I’ve ever had in my life.

      I can’t find it now, but I swear I remember one photo of the boxing ring (they wear gloves to hit each other!) where the flag had been spread out on the ground like a floor mat and I can’t find it now but I’m forced to admit I am still thinking about it.

      The eagle screech is buried pretty deep in me, but it is still there and NONE of those guys would put up with that shit if they were actually American and actually trailer park American unless that was what they were fighting about.

      But the small screw-ups somehow make it more endearing, and I think it’s cute

  • @Quasari@programming.dev
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    168 months ago

    Tsukiyaki Western Django has nothing to do with this movement, I think, but it is great seeing a western featuring an all Japanese cast doing lines in English and Quentin Tarantino doing lines in Japanese

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      The entire movie is on YouTube. Just watched the first 5 minutes. I need way more weed for an hour and a half of that. I’d link it, but I can’t figure out how to do that in Newpipe

  • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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    128 months ago

    So, here’s an idea I had, related to cross-culture admiration:

    If we had a Team Fortress 3, we’d want more voice lines for Soldier. Unfortunately, Rick May has passed away. If we’re to honor the Jane Doe character, it may be preferable to replace the character instead of re-cast him (and claim that Doe is off fighting the perpetual war against the Eagle Legions up north).

    That said, it’d be boring to just get a straight copy of the old Soldier, but also suck to lose the theme of American Patriotic Rocket Trooper. So what if TF3’s Soldier was a Japanese immigrant that is incredibly bored with Japanese tradition, and is obsessed with everything American instead? Kinda like the cowboy theme in this meme. Curious if that sounds interesting at all.

  • DrQuickbeam
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    98 months ago

    I had a professor named Akira Yamamoto that had this obsession and became an expert on certain native American languages. He always wore cowboy boots.