I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.
If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.
Totally agree. This kind of goofiness is how cultures integrate, and it’s as healthy as it is funny.
As long as it’s not mean-spirited, I say go for it.
Wow, that sounds like a healthy way to respond to people with interests in cultures beyond their own.
Now if you don’t mind me, I have eggs to throw at American high schoolers wearing kimonos.
Eggs are expensive and I’ve never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.
A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.
You should watch Firefly.
wheel gun
Totally agree. This kind of goofiness is how cultures integrate, and it’s as healthy as it is funny.
As long as it’s not mean-spirited, I say go for it.
Cross-cultural pollination is a beautiful thing, and I support this wholeheartedly.
I like Japanese stuff too
Yes this soy sauce stuff is really neat
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 would accept that man as an American, especially when he’s fluent in the Oklahoma dialect.
10/10
A perfect score!
If any weebs wanted to be a fisher this is pretty spot on. I’ve heard dudes at convention say this about the tuna trade a few times even :|
Joke explained for your convenience:
oh my god. I’m certain that was a joke, there’s no way it’s serious
Well it originated on /jp/ in the late 2000s, so there’s a >9,000% chance that it was only ever trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.
They say their 27 and hoping to attend a prestigious high school so they are definitely not being serious.
For me it was the “kanji” dialect instead of “kansai”. Freaking hilarious though.
And greeting with “gomenasai” (“I’m sorry”).
Also just noticed the 27 years old and attending a High School!
it could also be rage bait: the person in the image may not have written the text, or be aware of its association. it’s a form of cyber bullying.
The “wild west” is a mostly invented culture anyway. It’s like high fantasy middle Europe, tiki bars, pirates of the carribian, ninjas… Can you really claim appropriation when the underlying culture is essentially a fiction?
In real terms, what we think of as “the wild west” was made up by mostly-Italian movie directors.
Not to even mention the screenshot is an English-language film that is unambiguously parody.
Italien directors made a new wild west “culture” based partly on Japanese made Samurai movies which were partly based on the old wild west “culture” that was created by Hollywood.
Spaghetti Westerns
This is a reference to
and
Wait, which movie is it?
Looks like Tsukiyaki Western Django to me.
I don’t think anyone was arguing it’s cultural appropriation (or it’s negative). As an American I’m just glad that our nation’s history and culture has matured to the point people across the globe want to enjoy it with us.
Samurai received a similar white washing and romanticization as cowboys did.
Last year, I learned that there’s a special spot in German culture for the American West in general, and Custer’s last stand in particular. Apparently it stems from a 19th century German author named Karl May, who wrote several hugely popular fiction books set in the American West. Despite the fact that he’d never visited America, Karl based his personality off Buffalo Bill and went around dressed with a beartooth necklace.
Anyway, this German friend is incredibly knowledgeable about Custer’s life. He told me about his family’s vacation to the site of Little Bighorn, and described in great detail the unit formations and troop movements that led up to the engagement.
All cultures are invented.
The Japanese can get obsessed with anything
It’s their superpower
They have a rockabilly obsession too iirc. Google Japanese Rockabilly Culture.
Everyone has a rockabilly obsession
if you havnt already, the movie ‘Guitar Wolf - Wild Zero’ is an absolute blast. Something about a (real) rockabilly band (guitar wolf) saving the world from an alien zombie invasion. I’ve seen the band play too, still the loudest concert I’ve ever been to
If the weeb door swings both ways they must get pumped about someday coming to America and handling a real gun.
Hideo Kojima is one of those. He’s mentioned being obsessed with American military hardware in interviews.
“Five-five-sixers and pineapples, huh?”
In college I was a member of the international students club and “I want to shoot a gun” was one of the first things international kids wanted to do in the semester. I’d say like 50% of them wanted me to take them to a shooting range within the first 6 weeks of coming to the US, it was really weird
Hey, I wanted to shoot a gun too the moment I went to the US
I understand the urge to kill, but that TSA officer was just doing his job
So were the Nazis, what’s your point?
Lol
I have seen a video of a shooting instructor who brought over a Japanese kid who did all his drills with airsoft and had never shot a real gun before. I’ll go look for it and edit in the link if I find it.
Edit: Someone Else found it in a reply
Yeah! That’s the one!
YT search sucks ass these days, but I remember the video you’re referencing. Here’s the best I can do: https://youtu.be/G_TgsVlky3U
Hellaou…mai naime is…kowboy tanaka
You mean Rawhide Kobayashi
Oh, man. I saw one of those documentaries that article is talking about a good while back, and it must of been her. It took a bit to get over just how utterly bizarre that was, but the I thought, you know? Good for them. They seem to be getting a lot of good out of it.
Related, the polish group that does American trailer park cosplay every year, and they’re weirdly on point with it. Only, the things that are off or missing are all just only a little bit wrong. The kinds of things you wouldn’t think of consciously, so it gives a lot of the photos an unsettling air that you can’t quite explain.
The war vet’s posture is perfect, but his hair and clothing are just a little too clean-cut for who he’s trying to be. Those people do fit the atmosphere, but they would never be talking to each other in a million years. That man definitely owns multiple guns, but he’s not standing like he’s ever fired one. Everyone is holding the fork in their left hand and none of the cups at the BBQ are a matching set. “Her makeup is way too dark for her to be a staunch republican” is not a thought I’ve ever had in my life.
I can’t find it now, but I swear I remember one photo of the boxing ring (they wear gloves to hit each other!) where the flag had been spread out on the ground like a floor mat and I can’t find it now but I’m forced to admit I am still thinking about it.
The eagle screech is buried pretty deep in me, but it is still there and NONE of those guys would put up with that shit if they were actually American and actually trailer park American unless that was what they were fighting about.
But the small screw-ups somehow make it more endearing, and I think it’s cute
Nihon-dy
You can just say Hideo Kojima.
Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot
You’re pretty good
Good ol’ westaboos.
What the fuck did I just trip upon?
That shit is hilarious!
Wild westaboos
Tsukiyaki Western Django has nothing to do with this movement, I think, but it is great seeing a western featuring an all Japanese cast doing lines in English and Quentin Tarantino doing lines in Japanese
The entire movie is on YouTube. Just watched the first 5 minutes. I need way more weed for an hour and a half of that. I’d link it, but I can’t figure out how to do that in Newpipe
So, here’s an idea I had, related to cross-culture admiration:
If we had a Team Fortress 3, we’d want more voice lines for Soldier. Unfortunately, Rick May has passed away. If we’re to honor the Jane Doe character, it may be preferable to replace the character instead of re-cast him (and claim that Doe is off fighting the perpetual war against the Eagle Legions up north).
That said, it’d be boring to just get a straight copy of the old Soldier, but also suck to lose the theme of American Patriotic Rocket Trooper. So what if TF3’s Soldier was a Japanese immigrant that is incredibly bored with Japanese tradition, and is obsessed with everything American instead? Kinda like the cowboy theme in this meme. Curious if that sounds interesting at all.
You leave Hideo Kojima alone!
I’m pretty sure that’s a romulan.
Shields up!
I had a professor named Akira Yamamoto that had this obsession and became an expert on certain native American languages. He always wore cowboy boots.
