Lightfall on 31/10/2006 at 23:02
If their societal evolution is similar to ours, then they too should have a 10:1 ratio of normal people to lawyers by now. Lawyers gotta eat.
Rug Burn Junky on 31/10/2006 at 23:06
I'm already working on a way to repackage alien TV advertising payments with long term bond financing. I should have a model deal ready to pitch to the investment banks in another week or so.
Agent Monkeysee on 31/10/2006 at 23:08
Quote Posted by Lightfall
Is there actually a big neo-nazi movement in Japan now or is this just the most daring fringe of cosplay yet?
As far as I know there is nothing even
resembling a neo-nazi movement in any Asian countries. It simply wouldn't make any sense, culturally. The struggles of the uber-mensch don't have any resonance among non-white people. Why would it? It'd be like Norwegians celebrating Afrocentrism.
No, the issue is in the Westernized asian nations Nazi symbology and memorabilia just don't carry any sense of the social and cultural weight that it does in the West so they see it for its most superficial qualities; namely the fact that Nazi uniforms are fuckin' stylin'. Also Hitler et. al. are just highly recognizable icons of Western culture.
There was a minor scandal a few years ago when a Korean company advertising air conditioners or something with a tiny cartoon Hitler seig-heiling and declaring "War on High Prices!" The backlash when the ads hit Western media completely blindsided the company. Nazis simply don't carry any weight in other cultures and the pop-culture fetishism in S. Korea and Japan of Western culture make them easily recognized cartoonish icons.
Lightfall on 31/10/2006 at 23:12
Thank you. That's what I was hoping, because as you said neo-naziism wouldn't make a damn bit of sense in the east.
Ultraviolet on 1/11/2006 at 00:24
Uncia: I am male, if that's what you were asking.
Quote Posted by Agent Monkeysee
Also Hitler et. al. are just highly recognizable icons of Western culture
ROFL and QFT
