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Replicant Sasquatch said:
Capitalizing Every Word In Each Sentence Really Adds To The Horror.
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It seems like a lot of autistic people (and I mean actual autism, not in the internet sense) write like that. For some reason, they really struggle to grasp how to write in standard English. It makes it amusing when people call a well written essay "sperging", since most actual autistics couldn't write anything coherent that length.

TV Tropes' music coverage is a lot less pathetic than their cartoon coverage, as expected, and they have articles even on relatively unknown bands like maudlin of the Well and Sigh. However, this usually only applies if the artists come from a white majority nation or the more advanced Asian states like Japan and Taiwan.

Orphaned Land released one of the best progressive metal albums of the 2000s, their guitarist Yossi Sassi invented a new instrument by attaching a bouzouki to a guitar, and they have tried to bridge the Israel-Palestine divide by collaborating and touring with Arabic artists. Incredibly, they managed to build up a substantial Muslim fanbase and have played several shows in Turkey, one of the few Muslim states at peace which accepts Israeli passports. Some people from Iraq and Syria even travelled up to see them.

Do they have an article? No. For all Tropers like to autistically screech about "cultural diversity", apparently making articles on foreign cultures that aren't white majority or the richer parts of East Asia is not for them. TV shows need more fat, autistic Muslim characters, but they'd better damn well be made in America.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Do they have an article? No. For all Tropers like to autistically screech about "cultural diversity", apparently making articles on foreign cultures that aren't white majority or the richer parts of East Asia is not for them. TV shows need more fat, autistic Muslim characters, but they'd better damn well be made in America.
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That's the thing with most SJWs. They screech about wanting diverse media, but once they're presented with music or books from other cultures or countries, they're hesitant to give them a chance. Seems like the only good diversity is modern african/asian/muslim-american or weird european fantasy landscapes littered with blacks.
 
friedshrimp said:
That's the thing with most SJWs. They screech about wanting diverse media, but once they're presented with music or books from other cultures or countries, they're hesitant to give them a chance. Seems like the only good diversity is modern african/asian/muslim-american or weird european fantasy landscapes littered with blacks.
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And remember this... That's what TVTropes is filled up with right now (with no sign of dying out, either), sadly.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Do they have an article? No. For all Tropers like to autistically screech about "cultural diversity", apparently making articles on foreign cultures that aren't white majority or the richer parts of East Asia is not for them. TV shows need more fat, autistic Muslim characters, but they'd better damn well be made in America.
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Finding out about these things would take time and effort - it's far easier to just say that you're knowledgeable rather than actually having to put in the effort to actually become knowledgeable
 
friedshrimp said:
That's the thing with most SJWs. They screech about wanting diverse media, but once they're presented with music or books from other cultures or countries, they're hesitant to give them a chance. Seems like the only good diversity is modern african/asian/muslim-american or weird european fantasy landscapes littered with blacks.
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The latter one is especially bizarre because the Mali empire in West Africa had mounted knights in armour during the late mediaeval period. Nobles, known as farima or ton-tigui, fought as shock cavalry with lances and sabres and wore maille and iron helmets imported from North Africa. I don't know why they don't push for things set in mediaeval Africa instead. Maybe it's because they'd have to deal with the fact that a black Muslim empire allowed slavery and didn't give women equal rights.

It's important to note, though, that a moral gap didn't emerge between Christian and Muslim societies regarding civil rights until the Enlightenment age. Mediaeval Europe wasn't much better for the most part, and in some cases Muslim societies could be more tolerant, as when the Ottomans accepted the Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
The latter one is especially bizarre because the Mali empire in West Africa had mounted knights in armour during the late mediaeval period. Nobles, known as farima or ton-tigui, fought as shock cavalry with lances and sabres and wore maille and iron helmets imported from North Africa. I don't know why they don't push for things set in mediaeval Africa instead. Maybe it's because they'd have to deal with the fact that a black Muslim empire allowed slavery and didn't give women equal rights.
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They also have a very limited idea about Africa, they think for the most part the continent is just one huge homogenous culture, living amongst animals in huts, that's pretty much stuck in the prehistoric period and their advancements don't go beyond sticks and spears.
 
friedshrimp said:
They also have a very limited idea about Africa, they think for the most part the continent is just one huge homogenous culture, living amongst animals in huts, that's pretty much stuck in the prehistoric period and their advancements don't go beyond sticks and spears.
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And it's still better than America!
 
Of course, according to SJW/Tropers/Tumblrers, third world hellholes where you go hungry daily or you get raped by law are still better than Mein Drump's AmeriKKKa and evil Nazi-EU.
 
friedshrimp said:
They also have a very limited idea about Africa, they think for the most part the continent is just one huge homogenous culture, living amongst animals in huts, that's pretty much stuck in the prehistoric period and their advancements don't go beyond sticks and spears.
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So they essentially have the same image of Africa as white supremacists, except that it's supposed to be a good thing apparently.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DorbeesMakingDecisions

"This cartoon says that kids that skip school should LITERALLY DIE!!"
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jesus christ how horrifying
 
Lackadaisy said:
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jesus christ how horrifying
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Church groups attempting to reach out to the youth have varying degrees of success.

On the other side, how many Christian direct to video short films from 1998 are still mentioned today, in any context? They certainly made something memorable, if nothing else.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ValuesDissonance/AnimeAndManga

"Japan is homophobic racist and sexist, but it's okay because they're not America"
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Regarding homophobia, it isn't, really. Japan decriminalised sodomy in 1880, having criminalised it in 1872 to fit with the Christian morals of the other imperial powers. Texas, Florida, and a load of other states did in 2003, and that was only because of a Supreme Court ruling. Homosexuals have never been despised in Japan, some samurai warriors had same sex lovers, and it is mentioned positively in classical literature like the Tale of Genji. Lesbian relationships were traditionally laughed at and not considered serious, but they were never violently persecuted to my knowledge.

The only way you could consider Japan a homophobic nation is if you're going by the Tumblr 99 genders and a bitch ain't one definition, which most people don't.

There is some vitriolic racism directed towards the Koreans and Chinese, but I'm not sure to what extent it's actually worse than US attitudes towards blacks. It's just a question of admitting it exists rather than denying it like a lot of weeaboos do.

The situation of women has positives and negatives. Morals are a bit more traditional regarding having careers as a mother, but there aren't any laws blocking women from doing so. Legal abortions are available. Serious violence against women is a lot rarer than in the United States due to restrictive immigration policies and strong rule of law.

I don't know what the article says, just giving my take on it.
 
On the other hand, they'll never escape the reputation of abusers in trains.
 
A Random said:
On the other hand, they'll never escape the reputation of abusers in trains.
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We definitely have creeps in the UK who do the same thing. It's probably more common in Japan because it's easier to get away with it in the tightly packed carriages, but it certainly isn't socially acceptable to do it. There was a high profile case a few years ago where a man was accused of groping women and faced prison time if convicted. He was eventually acquitted after 5 years in and out of the courts.

Meanwhile...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8107039.stm

BBC said:
One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.
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Waiting on the Values Dissonance article for South Africa. Of course, it will never come, for reasons mentioned earlier in this thread.
 
Asa_Spades60 said:
In a Troper's eyes, if South Africa doesn't exist as a Hetalia character, it doesn't exist.
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Does it exist as a Hetalia character? I don't know much about that heap of cancer other than there was an episode that implied the Allies made up the Holocaust and Japan's war crimes were gleefully ignored. Does it have any black characters at all? If it's about World War 2 then Italy could enslave Ethiopia in the prequel.

Don't take cartoon spergs as the mainstream Japanese view, though. There are other works, like the book and film series The Human Condition from the 1950s-1960s, which take a very critical view of Japan's role in the war. I believe the writer of the original Gundam cartoon was critical as well, though he never directly tackled the issue in his work.
 
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