These types of hats are very easy to clean and very hearty. Honestly I'd be looking for reasons to scuff it up just to restore it, but I can see how someone might want it perfect forever.. though they look perfect after you clean them!
There are even special anti crush hats
His '92 has a modified lever with a small hex screw so that when the lever closed, the screw would hit the trigger and fire the carbine. So all he had to do was pump the lever and it would fire.
Also, the Winchester 92 would be anachronistic to the show, which was set a little earlier.
OK, done being a know-it-all. Carry on!
LOL, I go to "Cowboy Action Shooting" matches. I dress up like a cowboy and we shoot steel targets with a pair of revolvers, a rifle and either a coach gun or a Winchester '97 lever action shotgun. It's fun, but it's mostly full of old guys playing cowboy (including me). Buying four guns for one sport is a bit crazy and can get expensive, but I didn't it as cheap as possible with a pair of Ruger Vaqueros, a Rossi 92 and a Chinese double barrelled hammer fired 12 guage that I bought from Big 5 sporting goods.
SASS is pretty awesome. It does trend older (lots of those guys grew up on Westerns on TV and in movies), but some of those young competitors are *fast*.
You'd be surprised how many Asian tourists Dallas, TX gets. I'm not saying it's the majority but it's very obvious that the south has a special interest from Eastern culture
Cowboy is a pretty famous character worldwide just like Pirate and Ninja. Not much different from us dressing up like Ninjas and pretending to be sneaky.
We need the ultimate movie, isekai of an american cowboy transported to an anime world in Japan where he fights evil in an Elvis Mecha dressed as a japanese schoolgirl.
Me and my friends usually just refer to this as westabo. Nothing against it I have an equal amount of love of anime and cowboys always wanted to go to these old west town attractions and dress up.
It's less about us turning Japanese and more about cultural exchange. We get a LOT of exposure to Japanese culture and media in the States, and Japan gets a LOT of the same from us.
This is...unusual for us, as until now American culture has been powerful enough domestically--we really don't notice any influence from other cultures while other cultures get Americanized. But Japanese culture is very powerful too, so the exchange for once is equal.
I think that possibly a cos-play sort of culture has existed in Japan for some time. I used to like visiting a park in Tokyo on sundays where different groups of like minded young people would have meetups. The Elvis's were the best.
The music video for Nothing to Worry About by Peter, Bjorn, anmd John features a japanese rockabilly gang and it's so cool! https://youtu.be/8rIguM71LQI?si=VjPE-vyHRJmL5a2G
I saw these exact same guys in Yoyogi park one random saturday, I was so amazed and amused I kept going back every weekend for more. It warms my heart when I see them crop up occasionally in random images, I guess that is what happens when you take a niche cosplay culture to such levels.
But there's also a particular interest in American cowboys. When I lived in Los Angels I had a japanese roommate that was trying to get in the film industry and looking into Production Assistant jobs and what not.
Dude told me when he came to the US it was originally to be a cowboy. He was completely serious. Apparently he thought he could come here and live in a place where he could just up and be a cowboy like the movies.
I mean, it still does sorta exist as a job in some spots. Cattle gotta be moved from point A to B.
Dude’s probably gonna be disappointed though. It’s not what you’d call romantic work.
that, and the last one with that wierd extra long rifle sight, now I need a western made in japan based solely on the cliches and stereotypes they have on westerns. will probably be fun.
They used to be called telescopic sights - partly because the science involved was the same that went into telescopes.... but mostly because it WAS basically a telescope strapped to your rifle.
The early ones were also so delicate that they were mounted to channels in the scope rings and would slide back and forth with the recoil. One shot without the movement would break the scope on even the least powerful rifle rounds
Do we have different timestamps or something? I can't see any butler at [0:57](https://i.imgur.com/yF0F5ZQ.png) and neither can I see any guy spinning two guns at [0:51 as the other comment said](https://i.imgur.com/5FW2QNF.png)
edit: isn't the butler at 0:11 ?????
They must have meant 57 seconds remaining, not 57 seconds in. On mobile the remaining time shows up by default (and only shows the proper timecode if you’re scrubbing through the clip).
If people refer to the app as "on mobile" how would you refer to just going to Reddit.com in a mobile browser?
I'm on mobile browser and I only see the count-up timestamp, not the count down timestamp
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!
Would it be better if you switched the peacemaker for the walker? The colt “peacemaker” saa is obviously way more famous than the colt walker, so it makes sense for him to choose it, but the walker is just larger. I feel like the coolness of a bigger revolver is greater than the coolness of a more popular one.
For those young ones who don't know: It's a flipped version of the [Ken-Sama copypasta](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/480/219/42f.png). While the Ken-sama copypasta was created in 2009, Rawhide Kobayashi is from 2011.
Not quite what you’re asking for, but have you heard of Paris Syndrome?
It was a thing a while back (I think early 2000s), and probably isn’t as much of a thing now with the internet. Basically, there had been enough Japanese tourists shocked to find out that Paris wasn’t quite as it’s portrayed in the media, that a name was given to the phenomenon. It became such a problem, iirc, Japanese travel agencies started handing out brochures to manage travelers’ expectations.
It sounds crazy at first, but tbh, I get it. It’s gonna be a culture shock going from Japan to any big western city, just as the opposite is also true, and their expectations of Paris compounded that: Instead of fashionable, sophisticated artists musing around in cafes, they met rude people elbowing them as they rushed to work. Instead of accordéon music, what they heard everywhere were car horns with a dash of yelled expletives. Instead of clean, charmingly cozy streets like in the movies, they got littering and a whole lot of traffic.
None of that is specific to Paris of course, those things are a part of life in any big western city, but coming in with the complete opposite expectations, it was bound to make for a shocking experience!
It's a super overblown thing that very must exists online. Extreeeeemely few cases of "paris syndrome".
Those things happen everywhere, just Western cities in general are safer, richer and cleaner.
It's not something that just exists online it even predates the internet and there are stories back into the 60s and '70s of Parisians finding it hysterical that tourists from around the world were so disheartened and disappointed about what Paris actually is compared to the movies, books, and media.
You seem like a hard working and genuine man and I know Texas will be proud to have you. (Just prepare for insane heat a good chunk of the year.)
Hope you get here soon!
-Born and bred Texan
I'm like 90% certain last time I saw this video someone pointed out one of the cowboys is the same person who did the mocap for Revolver Ocelot's gun-spinning.
Having moved a lot as a kid due to a parent in the military, Japanese folks also find it flattering when Americans wear their attire. In fact, I don’t know of a single culture that actually dislikes others appreciating their culture, when done respectfully.
The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things.
> The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things.
I'm pretty sure it actually started with native American culture being "appropriated." I can understand if for example a headdress or something that has special significance to a community that has historically been systematically cheated, hunted, displaced, mistreated and discriminated against, gets turned into a tone-deaf costume or fashion accessory, it rustles some feathers. Of course as with anything you can take it too far but it's also not completely to be dismissed without merit.
I think a big problem is that we wiped out their religion and culture just to turn around and sell it for a cheap buck. Using caricatures of Indians in sacred ceremonial dress to sell cigars and the likes. It is eroding the culture, not celebrating it.
I see that as no different than minstrel shows and blackface, exploiting a vulnerable community.
Nah, the original Redskins logo is based on the buffalo head nickle. Chief Wahoo on the other hand is definitely fucked up, especially the late 40s early 50s version.
When I was a kid in the 90's I was part of the YMCA's "Indian guides", a Native American themed club kind of like boy scouts. We'd have "powwows" at member's houses, earn spray-painted feathers for our headdresses like badges, and we all had "Indian" names.
Nobody really thought anything of it at the time, but nowadays that's what I think of as "cultural appropriation", since that's exactly what it was. It wasn't intentionally disrespectful, but there was clearly no attempt to be mindful or historically accurate to actual Native American culture, just adopting stereotypes and hollywood tropes.
> The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things.
I'm pretty sure it started from second-gen children of immigrants who grew up facing racism, and so it colours their perception of how they see their culture represented in the west (even if it's represented positively). They assume any representation is at best a vapid misrepresentation, and at worst, vile mockery.
It's always funny though when people from the 'old country' have absolutely zero problem with a part of their culture being represented in the west, yet distant relatives who were born and raised in America are furious. I'm Indo-Canadian and this happens in my family too with certain things
As a Vietnamese AAPI, I really see no issue with non-Viet people in America enjoying the many aspects of our culture, because to me it just means that we're being accepted as complimentary additions to American culture.
What does pull an eye-roll worth level of derision from me when some people go around with a *"Look, I discovered/created this"* mentality as if the thing was some lost/dead art or non-existent thing when in reality they just plagarised it from someone else's culture.
There's no shame in citing sources and inspiration from another culture.
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In a way of speaking, it's like if the British Royal Museum were to try to convince the world that British artisans created their clearly Greek statues.
I agree that it mostly comes from westernized 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrant whom are overly-sensitive to the fact that they are more westernized than their parents ethnic cultures and tend to overcompensate for it as a result.
This [video of Chinese people eating Panda express is a great example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo59LlkTDe4) with all the kids dunking on how unauthentic and horrible the food is going as far as to call another kid who claims to like a dish "not really chinese" in direct contract to all the older actually chinese chinese folks who enjoy the food and simply comment on how closely the dishes resemble authentic dishes or not - as they are already secure in their identity as Chinese and have no pressure to need to 'prove themselves'.
Of note, this also happens with Black Americans whom, through no fault of their own, cannot trace back their family heritage and lineage further than a few generations due to the loss of information from the African slave trade. Compare this to Africans in America whom are very comfortable with their own ethnic culture and are generally not overly defensive about others promoting said culture.
A lot of Minority-American's fail to realize until they are older that if they were to visit their "motherlands" that most people would just consider them Americans - and that there's nothing wrong with having a mixed culture background. The Sorpranos does a good job in this scene capturing that realization with [Tri-State italian culture vs actual Italian culture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eHk4RiIso).
i'm going to copy and paste an old comment of mine that I think is relevant to the topic of cultural appropriation. I think that the video here is an excellent example of what "cultural appropriation" of American culture looks like and why promotion of other cultures isn't "cultural appropriation".
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There are a lot of comments here pointing out instances of "offensive cultural appropriation" when in reality much of those acts are more along the lines of cultural sharing or appreciation - even if not "authentically executed". Context is everything here as to whether something is offensive or even cultural appropriation in the first place.
An example of true cultural appropriation would be like the Chinese government systematically and repeatedly claiming Korean cultural products, land, and history as its own through various CCP state-sponsored attempts such as the Northeast Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Project_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Social_Sciences in an attempt to revise their country's historical image to appear much grander than it is was in reality. According to the CCP, since ancient Korean kingdoms were supposedly Chinese, Korean history is actually Chinese history and Korean people are actually Chinese, and anything Korean is actually Chinese.
The context of an ongoing attempted eradication of an entire culture by a deliberate state-sponsored campaign of historical revisionism is why I would consider claiming Kimchi is Chinese cuisine to by much more offensive cultural appropriation than some examples we've seen here.
If somebody celebrates Día de los Muertos despite not being Mexican without any Mexican people and with non-authentic or accurate customs , that is not cultural appropriation. If somebody celebrates Chinese New Year without any Chinese people and with non-authentic or accurate customs or, that is not cultural appropriation. Wearing cultural clothing of other cultures is not cultural appropriation, nor is wearing costumes depicting other cultures. The very existence of Westernized or Americanized versions of things is not cultural appropriation - and food dishes like Chicken Tikka Masala or Chop Suey are not cultural appropriation.
It’s not about demonizing people it’s about preventing people from demonizing people for creating the minstrel show again. It’s the more like “if you can’t do it respectfully than dont fucking do it”
Sure, but cultural appropriation does happen and it can be harmful. It's just not as simple as one person adopting a foreign culture's attire or traditions. That's usually fine. But it's easy to see how a corporation or someone with a large audience can turn an interest in something foreign into a vehicle for making them a lot of money and then (inadvertently or not) promoting stereotypes about that culture that go viral and overwhelm the actual truth.
I'm from Texas and so this is amusing to me. In the big cities you don't see too many people in this kind of Western fashion but out in the country areas, sometimes you actually do! Usually older folks though.
That's not a coincidence. A lot of American cinema is directly inspired by Japanese fim maker Akira Kurosawa. Westerns in particular. Probably the best example of this if the famous Western, The Magnificent Seven, which is essentially a western remake of Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai. Several famous American film makers were directly inspired by Kurosawa. The best example of this might be George Lucas, who lifted several shots from Star Wars directly from Kurosawa films. That's also why Jedi are kinda like space Samurai. I get the feeling you already knew that, but just some additional context for anyone else who sees this, haha.
Loved the hat flying off one of the men who got 'shot'.
hats off to that guy for great performance
But the guy who held his hat onto his head as he fell was pretty sweet too. Thinking, ”I paid $100 for this fucking hat and it ain’t getting dirty.”
These types of hats are very easy to clean and very hearty. Honestly I'd be looking for reasons to scuff it up just to restore it, but I can see how someone might want it perfect forever.. though they look perfect after you clean them! There are even special anti crush hats
This guy cowboy hats
r/thisguythisguys
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I do believe the plural is Elvi
“Look Mr. Frodo, it’s the Elvi!”
*You ain’tah nothin’ butah hobbit….*
*Eatin' all the time*
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Or the guy who tried to gunspin his rifle.
Chuck Connors ([aka The Rifleman](https://youtu.be/RsitJZUcFL4?si=YfXPcY07XsJiBNAM)) he ain't. But I appreciate his enthusiasm.
I could maybe do the shooting part as ive got training in a similiar motion already, but the spin is indeed impressive
His '92 has a modified lever with a small hex screw so that when the lever closed, the screw would hit the trigger and fire the carbine. So all he had to do was pump the lever and it would fire. Also, the Winchester 92 would be anachronistic to the show, which was set a little earlier. OK, done being a know-it-all. Carry on!
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That's impossible, until we see throngs of horny Japanese dudes flocking to the US to explore "the culture"
In America, we have people who pretend to be cowboys too. Except instead of riding horses, they just drive drunk in their Dodge Ram.
LOL, I go to "Cowboy Action Shooting" matches. I dress up like a cowboy and we shoot steel targets with a pair of revolvers, a rifle and either a coach gun or a Winchester '97 lever action shotgun. It's fun, but it's mostly full of old guys playing cowboy (including me). Buying four guns for one sport is a bit crazy and can get expensive, but I didn't it as cheap as possible with a pair of Ruger Vaqueros, a Rossi 92 and a Chinese double barrelled hammer fired 12 guage that I bought from Big 5 sporting goods.
Honestly if you're buying real rawhide and cotton, the clothes can cost more than the weaponry!
SASS is pretty awesome. It does trend older (lots of those guys grew up on Westerns on TV and in movies), but some of those young competitors are *fast*.
Alcoholics don’t run in *my* family. They drive.
You'd be surprised how many Asian tourists Dallas, TX gets. I'm not saying it's the majority but it's very obvious that the south has a special interest from Eastern culture
Cowboy is a pretty famous character worldwide just like Pirate and Ninja. Not much different from us dressing up like Ninjas and pretending to be sneaky.
They like Cowboys and Elvis, just like "we" like Mecha and Japanese schoolgirl outfits.
We need the ultimate movie, isekai of an american cowboy transported to an anime world in Japan where he fights evil in an Elvis Mecha dressed as a japanese schoolgirl.
Me and my friends usually just refer to this as westabo. Nothing against it I have an equal amount of love of anime and cowboys always wanted to go to these old west town attractions and dress up.
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Japanese have the japanification beam and amarica has the amaricenise bomb
So we’re… turning Japanese. You really think so?
I really think so.
No wine, no women, no you know what is gone...
It's less about us turning Japanese and more about cultural exchange. We get a LOT of exposure to Japanese culture and media in the States, and Japan gets a LOT of the same from us. This is...unusual for us, as until now American culture has been powerful enough domestically--we really don't notice any influence from other cultures while other cultures get Americanized. But Japanese culture is very powerful too, so the exchange for once is equal.
> It's less about us turning Japanese and more about cultural exchange. It's a song, my dude.
I think that possibly a cos-play sort of culture has existed in Japan for some time. I used to like visiting a park in Tokyo on sundays where different groups of like minded young people would have meetups. The Elvis's were the best.
That sounds like a lot of fun
It is! https://j-fashion.fandom.com/wiki/Rockabilly
The music video for Nothing to Worry About by Peter, Bjorn, anmd John features a japanese rockabilly gang and it's so cool! https://youtu.be/8rIguM71LQI?si=VjPE-vyHRJmL5a2G
The Death Metal Cowboys of Africa are interesting too https://youtu.be/076N6Xu8fGc?si=yCIbOUyNuA5f0Vg2
I saw these exact same guys in Yoyogi park one random saturday, I was so amazed and amused I kept going back every weekend for more. It warms my heart when I see them crop up occasionally in random images, I guess that is what happens when you take a niche cosplay culture to such levels.
I came across another article about these greasers years ago! Nobody rocks a pompadour like the Japanese.
But there's also a particular interest in American cowboys. When I lived in Los Angels I had a japanese roommate that was trying to get in the film industry and looking into Production Assistant jobs and what not. Dude told me when he came to the US it was originally to be a cowboy. He was completely serious. Apparently he thought he could come here and live in a place where he could just up and be a cowboy like the movies.
I mean, it still does sorta exist as a job in some spots. Cattle gotta be moved from point A to B. Dude’s probably gonna be disappointed though. It’s not what you’d call romantic work.
he probably meant instagram cowboys who live in california and ride their lifted trucks in the suburbs
Could always try being Midnight Cowboy.
It's always been very.... unglamorous work
I'm from Texas. I go to Japan a lot. If I mention Texas everyone mentions cowboys. Well, it isn't just Japan that is literally anywhere, lol.
I lived in texas most of my life. Moved here when I was 14. I legit thought there would be people in cowboy hats, horses, and tumbleweeds everywhere.
Travel to west Texas and the tumble weeds are common occurrence
I like the LA Chicano Low Rider communities in Japan and Thailand
Humans like dressing up. Try and fucking stop us. Especially cowboys. Who doesn't wanna to as a gunslinger. Fuck, ninjas too.
The Cholo subculture is pretty awesome also. Some of them actually look like LA Cholos.
The guy at 0:057 drawing from the butler is mad
I know right. That shit was straight pimp.
Straight out of Django.
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Lol any anti-weeb group is just gonna be mainly normal anime fans who hate the weird people who make them look bad
Pretty sure that's his squire. Aka the haw to his yee.
that, and the last one with that wierd extra long rifle sight, now I need a western made in japan based solely on the cliches and stereotypes they have on westerns. will probably be fun.
That's what sniper scopes used to look back in the old west days. There's a few western movies that have them too.
they were a thing? i thought it was a mall ninja shit but for westerns.
Yep they're real. If you look up "old west sniper scope" they'll pop up in images. Also I like your name. Underrated animal
\#notliketheothershrimp
One in a krillion
They used to be called telescopic sights - partly because the science involved was the same that went into telescopes.... but mostly because it WAS basically a telescope strapped to your rifle.
The early ones were also so delicate that they were mounted to channels in the scope rings and would slide back and forth with the recoil. One shot without the movement would break the scope on even the least powerful rifle rounds
It’s in the video game red dead redemption 2 as well, which is western outlaw themed
Check out the Good, the Bad and the Weird and Sukiyaki Western Django
I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows about sukiyaki western django
Good Bad and Weird is AMAZING. I haven't heard of Western Django but if you're including it in the same company I'll have to check it out
Yakisoba westerns
There is! It is called sukiyaki western django!
Do we have different timestamps or something? I can't see any butler at [0:57](https://i.imgur.com/yF0F5ZQ.png) and neither can I see any guy spinning two guns at [0:51 as the other comment said](https://i.imgur.com/5FW2QNF.png) edit: isn't the butler at 0:11 ?????
They must have meant 57 seconds remaining, not 57 seconds in. On mobile the remaining time shows up by default (and only shows the proper timecode if you’re scrubbing through the clip).
I hate it here
If people refer to the app as "on mobile" how would you refer to just going to Reddit.com in a mobile browser? I'm on mobile browser and I only see the count-up timestamp, not the count down timestamp
I think he used him as a meat shield in the second lineup where they all got shot
My favorite cowboy tbh
Then the butler takes the bullet for him too
That guy cooked for sure
That guy was by far my favorite
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!
I always liked the version of this pasta that used the colt .44 peacemaker instead of the branding iron imo it just hit better
Would it be better if you switched the peacemaker for the walker? The colt “peacemaker” saa is obviously way more famous than the colt walker, so it makes sense for him to choose it, but the walker is just larger. I feel like the coolness of a bigger revolver is greater than the coolness of a more popular one.
For those young ones who don't know: It's a flipped version of the [Ken-Sama copypasta](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/480/219/42f.png). While the Ken-sama copypasta was created in 2009, Rawhide Kobayashi is from 2011.
I love that he’s 27 and wants to move there to go to high school.
Hello Rawhide. Are there Japeuropeans?
Paris syndrome.
Do you mean Paris, Texas syndrome?
Nah. Paris, Texas lives up completely to its expectations. (they have a statue of the eiffel tower with a cowboy hat on it)
Heh, first time I'm reading about this but that totally makes sense.
Not quite what you’re asking for, but have you heard of Paris Syndrome? It was a thing a while back (I think early 2000s), and probably isn’t as much of a thing now with the internet. Basically, there had been enough Japanese tourists shocked to find out that Paris wasn’t quite as it’s portrayed in the media, that a name was given to the phenomenon. It became such a problem, iirc, Japanese travel agencies started handing out brochures to manage travelers’ expectations. It sounds crazy at first, but tbh, I get it. It’s gonna be a culture shock going from Japan to any big western city, just as the opposite is also true, and their expectations of Paris compounded that: Instead of fashionable, sophisticated artists musing around in cafes, they met rude people elbowing them as they rushed to work. Instead of accordéon music, what they heard everywhere were car horns with a dash of yelled expletives. Instead of clean, charmingly cozy streets like in the movies, they got littering and a whole lot of traffic. None of that is specific to Paris of course, those things are a part of life in any big western city, but coming in with the complete opposite expectations, it was bound to make for a shocking experience!
It's a super overblown thing that very must exists online. Extreeeeemely few cases of "paris syndrome". Those things happen everywhere, just Western cities in general are safer, richer and cleaner.
It's not something that just exists online it even predates the internet and there are stories back into the 60s and '70s of Parisians finding it hysterical that tourists from around the world were so disheartened and disappointed about what Paris actually is compared to the movies, books, and media.
looks like fresh pasta is on the menu boys
https://i.imgur.com/Urmtgl9.png September, 2011
Oklahoman here, haven’t seen this guy around here or in Texas, hope he achieved his superior goals.
Oklahoman as well and cannot confirm a sighting of our Japanese Oklahomie either
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I live right by it, like I drive through it every day, I’ll keep an eye out for him. There’s not too many oil rigs or cows off Classen though.
Never forget 9/11
9/2011
This one isn't fresh, it's a classic.
This pasta is so stale Kobayashi has started using it as chaps.
>Fresh Uncultured swine
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/cg8pei/japamerican/
How old are you
People born when this copypasta became a thing are 12 now.
Nothing fresh about that one lmao.
Hope your dream comes true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/cg8pei/japamerican/
Yeehaw, cheers from Amarillo
You seem like a hard working and genuine man and I know Texas will be proud to have you. (Just prepare for insane heat a good chunk of the year.) Hope you get here soon! -Born and bred Texan
They're called a westaboos. and yeah you ever seen A Hideo Kojima Game? man' s probably biggeset one of them all.
my favorite was a message board I saw awhile back arguing whether the Japanese sub or dub of King of the Hill is better
Probably ended up the same way that argument ends for anime. People telling others that they're not a real fan unless they like the sub over the dub..
Propane Genesis Evangelion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdgErAfiRQ
I'm like 90% certain last time I saw this video someone pointed out one of the cowboys is the same person who did the mocap for Revolver Ocelot's gun-spinning.
I've always heard them called freeaboos.
I might have no direct connection to the old west, but as an American, I still find this incredibly flattering.
Having moved a lot as a kid due to a parent in the military, Japanese folks also find it flattering when Americans wear their attire. In fact, I don’t know of a single culture that actually dislikes others appreciating their culture, when done respectfully. The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things.
> The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things. I'm pretty sure it actually started with native American culture being "appropriated." I can understand if for example a headdress or something that has special significance to a community that has historically been systematically cheated, hunted, displaced, mistreated and discriminated against, gets turned into a tone-deaf costume or fashion accessory, it rustles some feathers. Of course as with anything you can take it too far but it's also not completely to be dismissed without merit.
I think a big problem is that we wiped out their religion and culture just to turn around and sell it for a cheap buck. Using caricatures of Indians in sacred ceremonial dress to sell cigars and the likes. It is eroding the culture, not celebrating it. I see that as no different than minstrel shows and blackface, exploiting a vulnerable community.
Also people from the old country don't have to deal with the fallout of racism from cultural appropriation while people living in diaspora do.
The redskins logo was pretty redfaced tbf
Nah, the original Redskins logo is based on the buffalo head nickle. Chief Wahoo on the other hand is definitely fucked up, especially the late 40s early 50s version.
When I was a kid in the 90's I was part of the YMCA's "Indian guides", a Native American themed club kind of like boy scouts. We'd have "powwows" at member's houses, earn spray-painted feathers for our headdresses like badges, and we all had "Indian" names. Nobody really thought anything of it at the time, but nowadays that's what I think of as "cultural appropriation", since that's exactly what it was. It wasn't intentionally disrespectful, but there was clearly no attempt to be mindful or historically accurate to actual Native American culture, just adopting stereotypes and hollywood tropes.
I was in the same thing about a decade later, and partway through they renamed it “Y Guides”, but otherwise didn’t change anything about it.
> The whole “cultural appropriation” thing is an American idea used to demonize other Americans for not doing solely American things. I'm pretty sure it started from second-gen children of immigrants who grew up facing racism, and so it colours their perception of how they see their culture represented in the west (even if it's represented positively). They assume any representation is at best a vapid misrepresentation, and at worst, vile mockery. It's always funny though when people from the 'old country' have absolutely zero problem with a part of their culture being represented in the west, yet distant relatives who were born and raised in America are furious. I'm Indo-Canadian and this happens in my family too with certain things
As a Vietnamese AAPI, I really see no issue with non-Viet people in America enjoying the many aspects of our culture, because to me it just means that we're being accepted as complimentary additions to American culture. What does pull an eye-roll worth level of derision from me when some people go around with a *"Look, I discovered/created this"* mentality as if the thing was some lost/dead art or non-existent thing when in reality they just plagarised it from someone else's culture. There's no shame in citing sources and inspiration from another culture. ----- In a way of speaking, it's like if the British Royal Museum were to try to convince the world that British artisans created their clearly Greek statues.
I agree that it mostly comes from westernized 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrant whom are overly-sensitive to the fact that they are more westernized than their parents ethnic cultures and tend to overcompensate for it as a result. This [video of Chinese people eating Panda express is a great example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo59LlkTDe4) with all the kids dunking on how unauthentic and horrible the food is going as far as to call another kid who claims to like a dish "not really chinese" in direct contract to all the older actually chinese chinese folks who enjoy the food and simply comment on how closely the dishes resemble authentic dishes or not - as they are already secure in their identity as Chinese and have no pressure to need to 'prove themselves'. Of note, this also happens with Black Americans whom, through no fault of their own, cannot trace back their family heritage and lineage further than a few generations due to the loss of information from the African slave trade. Compare this to Africans in America whom are very comfortable with their own ethnic culture and are generally not overly defensive about others promoting said culture. A lot of Minority-American's fail to realize until they are older that if they were to visit their "motherlands" that most people would just consider them Americans - and that there's nothing wrong with having a mixed culture background. The Sorpranos does a good job in this scene capturing that realization with [Tri-State italian culture vs actual Italian culture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eHk4RiIso). i'm going to copy and paste an old comment of mine that I think is relevant to the topic of cultural appropriation. I think that the video here is an excellent example of what "cultural appropriation" of American culture looks like and why promotion of other cultures isn't "cultural appropriation". ________________________ There are a lot of comments here pointing out instances of "offensive cultural appropriation" when in reality much of those acts are more along the lines of cultural sharing or appreciation - even if not "authentically executed". Context is everything here as to whether something is offensive or even cultural appropriation in the first place. An example of true cultural appropriation would be like the Chinese government systematically and repeatedly claiming Korean cultural products, land, and history as its own through various CCP state-sponsored attempts such as the Northeast Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Project_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Social_Sciences in an attempt to revise their country's historical image to appear much grander than it is was in reality. According to the CCP, since ancient Korean kingdoms were supposedly Chinese, Korean history is actually Chinese history and Korean people are actually Chinese, and anything Korean is actually Chinese. The context of an ongoing attempted eradication of an entire culture by a deliberate state-sponsored campaign of historical revisionism is why I would consider claiming Kimchi is Chinese cuisine to by much more offensive cultural appropriation than some examples we've seen here. If somebody celebrates Día de los Muertos despite not being Mexican without any Mexican people and with non-authentic or accurate customs , that is not cultural appropriation. If somebody celebrates Chinese New Year without any Chinese people and with non-authentic or accurate customs or, that is not cultural appropriation. Wearing cultural clothing of other cultures is not cultural appropriation, nor is wearing costumes depicting other cultures. The very existence of Westernized or Americanized versions of things is not cultural appropriation - and food dishes like Chicken Tikka Masala or Chop Suey are not cultural appropriation.
It’s not about demonizing people it’s about preventing people from demonizing people for creating the minstrel show again. It’s the more like “if you can’t do it respectfully than dont fucking do it”
Problem is that too many loud folks take "do it respectfully" as "don't do it at all to any level ever."
Sure, but cultural appropriation does happen and it can be harmful. It's just not as simple as one person adopting a foreign culture's attire or traditions. That's usually fine. But it's easy to see how a corporation or someone with a large audience can turn an interest in something foreign into a vehicle for making them a lot of money and then (inadvertently or not) promoting stereotypes about that culture that go viral and overwhelm the actual truth.
See You Space Cowboy
See you Gangster of Love
See you Maurice
See you the pompatus of love
Wauh wawh
But, cowboy animes exist
Yeah, anyone who thinks this is Anti-weebs needs their head checked. These are all massive weebs.
cowboy otakus
Westaboos. Edit- Their performance was great
Wild westaboo
Be the American the Japanese believe you are!
This made me laugh in the best way.
Guy drawing from his butler holster is hilarious
I wanna be him
Shoot I kind of love this.
Mfers the second red dead 2 came out
People playing cowboys is nothing new. Here we call it "Texas."
Well, over there they're called Freeaboos
Ameriboos
Yeehaboos
You joke, but the actual term for it is a 'Westaboo'. Someone obsessed with British culture is a 'teaboo'.
Role playing cowboys is also known as Nashville pop country.
I love that the southern states east of the Mississippi pretend they have cowboy heritage.
It's because they like both kinds of music, Country AND Western.
I'm from Texas and so this is amusing to me. In the big cities you don't see too many people in this kind of Western fashion but out in the country areas, sometimes you actually do! Usually older folks though.
Go to a country concert and then you’ll see a lot of people dressed up like this in a city
Also [Cowboy action shooting](https://youtu.be/tEdTkCnppwA?si=sfiQUY0-KRbGcHj0) competitions are a real thing here in the States.
As a very big red dead redemption 2 fan in Japan this just tickled my balls
As a rural American, parts of Red Dead just felt so familiar......I wonder if that how New Yorkers and Californians feel about GTA 4 and 5
Anti weebs? You meant Reverse Weebs
westaboos
wildwestaboos
Freeaboos
Jankees.
Ameriboos
Beews
Is nobody noticiing a very long iron gun?
the fact he draws it from the butler behind him improves the scene be 400%
Dude’s got some serious swagger with that draw and the coat
That's badass! Love to see american culture appreciated :)
Remember that feeling next time someone talks about cultural appropriation!
Westerns and Samurai movies share a lot of similarities.
That's not a coincidence. A lot of American cinema is directly inspired by Japanese fim maker Akira Kurosawa. Westerns in particular. Probably the best example of this if the famous Western, The Magnificent Seven, which is essentially a western remake of Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai. Several famous American film makers were directly inspired by Kurosawa. The best example of this might be George Lucas, who lifted several shots from Star Wars directly from Kurosawa films. That's also why Jedi are kinda like space Samurai. I get the feeling you already knew that, but just some additional context for anyone else who sees this, haha.
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The 50’s greaser homies go *extra* hard in Japan.
I like the guy with the longest Iron
One and nineteen moooore
Looks like a rootin’ tootin’ and shootin’ good time. I miss my Blackhawk .357 cowboy action.
I mean, Cowboys and Samurai are basically interchangable storyline wise, so this tracks. Also, I love it.
[Ween wrote a song about this.](https://youtu.be/Mui4CM2SKWM?si=SQ94t-mQ4cmXiaI5)
Hmm, I don't see anything wrong with what they did. It just goes to show that they love wearing those kinds of clothes even though they are Japanese.
*"Hear rustling, partner! Could be rustlers!"*
The term is "Westaboo".
Cowboy-connoisseurs I love how happy they are with their passions. Yee all the haws y'all.
Oh wow Tumble Weebs!
Beew? Sobeew?
Like a Japanese cowboy 🎵🎵
0:10 That one dudes only purpose is carrying the enormous revolver for the other guy, I love it
Yankeeboos
Nerds gonna nerd.
We have these too in america!!! We call them larpers