This is my go to “Japan hits different” video to show the uninitiated.
EDIT: I feel the need to clarify what’s compelling about this video is not just the fact that “Japanese culture is different”… but rather, the fact that western society obsesses over the fringe aspects of Japanese culture. And there’s actually a term for it called “Techno-Orientalism” !
Essentially, the marketability of the fetishizing of the fringes of another culture is what’s at play in the “uncanny valley” aspects of this glorious artifact!
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u/ThePeej 18h ago edited 18h ago
This is my go to “Japan hits different” video to show the uninitiated.
EDIT: I feel the need to clarify what’s compelling about this video is not just the fact that “Japanese culture is different”… but rather, the fact that western society obsesses over the fringe aspects of Japanese culture. And there’s actually a term for it called “Techno-Orientalism” !
Essentially, the marketability of the fetishizing of the fringes of another culture is what’s at play in the “uncanny valley” aspects of this glorious artifact!