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.
Totally agree. This kind of goofiness is how cultures integrate, and it’s as healthy as it is funny.
As long as it’s not mean-spirited, I say go for it.
Wow, that sounds like a healthy way to respond to people with interests in cultures beyond their own.
Now if you don’t mind me, I have eggs to throw at American high schoolers wearing kimonos.
Eggs are expensive and I’ve never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.
A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.
Cross-cultural pollination is a beautiful thing, and I support this wholeheartedly.
Totally agree. This kind of goofiness is how cultures integrate, and it’s as healthy as it is funny.
As long as it’s not mean-spirited, I say go for it.
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!
10/10
If any weebs wanted to be a fisher this is pretty spot on. I’ve heard dudes at convention say this about the tuna trade a few times even :|
Joke explained for your convenience:
You leave Hideo Kojima alone!
The Japanese can get obsessed with anything
It’s their superpower
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.
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.
Yeah but the wild West is bad ass and everyone can enjoy it.
Anime and it’s related content is much harder for some to swallow.
