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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny
 
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[–] [email protected] 188 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eggs are expensive and I've never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.

A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.

[–] mostNONheinous 12 points 8 months ago

You should watch Firefly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] UltraMagnus0001 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes this soy sauce stuff is really neat

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Cross-cultural pollination is a beautiful thing, and I support this wholeheartedly.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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!

[–] MindSkipperBro12 41 points 8 months ago

I would accept that man as an American, especially when he’s fluent in the Oklahoma dialect.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 :|

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Joke explained for your convenience:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

oh my god. I'm certain that was a joke, there's no way it's serious

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Well it originated on /jp/ in the late 2000s, so there's a >9,000% chance that it was only ever trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 14 points 8 months ago

They say their 27 and hoping to attend a prestigious high school so they are definitely not being serious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For me it was the “kanji” dialect instead of “kansai”. Freaking hilarious though.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Cryophilia 5 points 8 months ago

Spaghetti Westerns

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The Japanese can get obsessed with anything

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

It's their superpower

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They have a rockabilly obsession too iirc. Google Japanese Rockabilly Culture.

[–] Cryophilia 6 points 8 months ago

Everyone has a rockabilly obsession

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[–] Daft_ish 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hideo Kojima is one of those. He's mentioned being obsessed with American military hardware in interviews.

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[–] PP_BOY_ 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In college I was a member of the international students club and "I want to shoot a gun" was one of the first things international kids wanted to do in the semester. I'd say like 50% of them wanted me to take them to a shooting range within the first 6 weeks of coming to the US, it was really weird

[–] Gonzako 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I wanted to shoot a gun too the moment I went to the US

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I understand the urge to kill, but that TSA officer was just doing his job

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I have seen a video of a shooting instructor who brought over a Japanese kid who did all his drills with airsoft and had never shot a real gun before. I'll go look for it and edit in the link if I find it.

Edit: Someone Else found it in a reply

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hellaou…mai naime is..kowboy tanaka

[–] abbotsbury 8 points 8 months ago

You mean Rawhide Kobayashi

[–] eleefece 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can just say Hideo Kojima.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Revolver Ocelot

Revolver Ocelot

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Katana314 12 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

You leave Hideo Kojima alone!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's a romulan.

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[–] DrQuickbeam 9 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

But they call it the wild east

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