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Satire/sarcasm doesn't always work cross-culturally (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/justpost

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No joke here. I just think stuff like this is interesting.

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[–] suction 3 points 3 months ago

I mean most of their comedy is “Manzai”, which is essentially Abbott & Costello.

Japanese culture is still very much Confucian, so any sort of making light of authority figures or anyone deemed “above” oneself in the caste-like hierarchy is not done, not even ironically.

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