• ObamaSama [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours ago

    Japan is still Wakanda for white people but I think the sustained ridicule of weebs over the past decade or two has contributed to a sharp decline in Ken-Sama types. That and the huge boost in tourism in the past few years have made it much less of a mysterious, “exotic” place, a lot more people have firsthand experience that it’s a normal country with normal people like any other.

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 hours ago

      the huge boost in tourism in the past few years … it’s a normal country with normal people like any other

      However, when going to Japan, you’re the customer/guest with high forms of honorifics (o-kyaku-sama), so a lot of problems just aren’t really visible to tourists.