Main reason: most Japanese people don't know what black people are like because they've never seen any! The only reference some of them have is films that somehow found their way to the East from America, especially around the 1970s. As mentioned earlier, Mushroom Samba from Cowboy Bebop is a big riff on blaxploitation films (complete with watermelons, people in afros, and a scantily clad black woman in a hot car). You could probably put scenes from that episode to a song from Shaft for a fairly decent AMV.DDramone wrote:Calim wrote:thats true, and if i didnt know that i'd probably be MORE vocal about this, but at the same time, why did the japanees pick up ONLY the derogitory ways to draw black folks from US?
In some ways, I think those films were actually made to praise the black culture, but there is a kind of racism in praising a culture for the wrong reasons: "Wow, I sure love that ghetto-style clothing and crack-house architecture you black people gave us! Girls, get your virile black man right here!" (See how racist that sounds?) But again, the Japanese have mainly these old films for their references. If all we had for references to the Japanese were Godzilla films, we might think the Japanese are all a bunch of panicky hysterical people. It's a matter of limited perspective.
) in addation to that, i would also put on a pink dress, lite my head on fire and run around screaming "i am the queen of the carb people!"
almost the entire cast of that is black. It is the funniest thing, too. I mean, some days I can't stop laughing. Politics... oh, boy.....(Written in America, and the comics are all about the president... FUNNY!)